The school district has not named the teacher, however the pre-suit notice of claim identifies her as Kimberly Newman, the son’s sixth grade science teacher. “This a hideous event and the Palmdale School District will not stomach any racial behavior, whether it’s caught on tape or not.” Two days later, Garcia said, she submitted her resignation. When the school set up an interview to begin investigating the incident the next day, “the teacher made a statement that they’d rather resign than go through this and marched out the door,” Garcia said.

“This is something we took very seriously and within minutes placed the teacher on paid administrative leave as part of a process involved with such a situation and within days was no longer employed with the district,” he said. Stokes called the principal of Desert Willow Fine Arts, Science and Technology Magnet Academy while the teacher was still talking openly on Zoom, and the principal then told the teacher her audio and video was on, according to David Garcia, spokesperson for the Palmdale School District. White people do it too but Black people do it way more.” “To be entitled, because you taught him to make excuses that nothing is his fault,” the teacher continues to say. “Are you serious?” Stokes can be heard whispering to herself as she listens. “Your son has learned to lie to everybody and make excuses,” the teacher says in a video. They’re a Black family,” she says in another clip.

“I mean these parents - that’s what kind of pieces of sh*t they are.

“These parents are such f**king liars,” the teacher says on one video. In the videos, the teacher talks about having difficulty reaching her students’ parents, calling multiple times with no response, though the teacher never mentions Stokes by name.

A teacher forgot to exit a zoom call