Lauren and Ben Davis filed a lawsuit against several Dallas ISD officials and former officials for allegedly abusing their power and harming their kids during the COVID mask mandate period.
“Those rights you fail to exercise and protect are rights you will surely lose, thus you must defend each of them with vigor and without hesitation. Plaintiffs base this lawsuit on that notably and fundamentally Texan and American concept,” the court document states.
Lauren Davis, who filed the lawsuit, told DX that her kids were impacted by how Dallas ISD bureaucrats treated her children for refusing to wear masks. Davis said the toxic environment created by school officials led her kids to need psychological help and lose friends.
“There were psychological effects on our children; it ruined our kids’ friendships; it was sick, and it’s very important for kids to have community. Counseling was required for our kids,” Lauren said.
The couple’s goal is to hold Dallas ISD accountable for how it treated their kids and for the harm caused by the COVID-19 restrictive mandates.
“This is the final road of me holding them accountable for what they did,” Lauren told DX.
“The parents individually are “L.D.,” and “B.D.”), file this Complaint against Defendants, Dallas Independent School District (“DISD”); Michael Hinojosa, former Superintendent of Dallas Independent School District; Pamela Lear (“Lear”) in her official capacity as the Superintendent’s Chief of Staff and Chief Racial Equity Officer; Tiffany Huitt (“Huitt”) in her official capacity as Superintendent Hinojosa’s “Chief of Schools”; Beth Wing (“Wing”), in her official capacity as principal of George Bannerman Dealey Montessori Academy (“Dealey”); Ryan Zysk (“Zysk”), in his official capacity as Executive Director, Dallas Independent School District Magnet Schools and Director of School Leadership, and Marnie Glaser (“Glaser”), in her capacity as chairperson of the Dealey Site-Based Decision Making Committee and allege as follow,” the court document states.
Davis’s lawsuit states reasons for pursuing legal action.
“Manufacturing a false “major school disruption” and blaming it on Plaintiffs with the intent of using the incident to send them to alternative school and exclude them from the DISD magnet school program entirely,” the court document read.
“Falsifying a serious (Level IIB) disciplinary offense against Plaintiffs in a further attempt to intimidate them with the threat of alternative school and exclusion from the DISD magnet school program,” the court document read.
“Superintendent of DISD, announced he had decided DISD would defy Governor Abbott’s order and the state statute that gave the Governor’s emergency orders the force and authority of law,” the court document read.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Dallas ISD former Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa defied Gov. Abbott’s executive order, which banned mask mandates by government bodies.