(CNN) After a Zoom call with a student and his mother, a California teacher who thought the call had ended was recorded saying her student has learned to lie and make excuses, calling the parents "pieces of sh*t" and saying "this is what Black people do," according to the mother's attorneys. Stokes' sixth grader had struggled since his school transitioned to online learning last year at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, her attorneys say. Stokes reached out to school officials at Desert Willow Fine Arts, Science and Technology Magnet Academy in Palmdale, California, -- 37 miles north of Los Angeles -- to get some help, according to a news release from Taylor & Ring, the law firm representing Stokes. The teacher scheduled a Zoom call for January 20 with Stokes and her son, who is not named, and worked through recent assignments with him, according to the pre-trial claim. By the end of the call, the teacher assured him that he was caught up, the claim says.

Source: CNN March 31, 2021 23:15 UTC