Bella Ivory, a teacher at Beverly Hills High School, is speaking out about a frightening incident that occurred during the week of the 2024 election.
While speaking with Fox11, she described how a mob of students rallying behind President-Elect Donald Trump walked past her classroom in the hallway. “It was just a mob of kids,” Ivory said.” So many kids outside my door. One of them had a Trump flag on a pole, some of them had on MAGA hats. Some just had Trump apparel.” Ivory also stated that one of the kids in the group attempted to open her classroom door.
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During a recent school board gathering, students, including senior Jurnee, expressed her experiences, stating that although itshe has faced a significant amount of racism throughout her years at school, “it became utterly impossible to ignore it” during the election week.
“From 8:30 to 2:30, all week being in school felt like a nightmare,” she said. “What the Black students and Miss Bella had to deal with that week had nothing to do with politics. That week, [being] stormed, being called the N-word… Being shunned, all because you were black became the normal.”
Another student, Alexander, explained to the board that he’d recently “seen slurs scrawled across the walls of our bathrooms. Hateful rhetoric being spoken across the hall, and violent behavior toward Miss Bella and our club.”
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Ivory also addressed the meeting personally. Following the event, she shared her observations from that week with FOX 11.
“They looked so frightened,” she said, of her students. “I said I’m not going to open the door and one of [my] students said they looked like the KKK.”
The Beverly Hills Unified School District said in a statement to FOX that “we remain deeply committed to upholding a secure and conscientious setting where students can responsibly and considerately engage in the democratic process.
