Family Claims They’re Pulling Student Out Of School Over Racism Concerns

The family of a Black student enrolled in the Saranac Lake Central School District said they are moving away from Saranac Lake after he faced “bias and outright racist comments from students,” reports of which they felt fell on “deaf ears” within the school. Cindy Shortell’s grandson is Black and she tells the Adirondack Daily Enterprise they pulled him out of public school and she and her husband Jim began homeschooling him because they didn’t feel the school could keep him safe. ol.