Asian American mom says district failed to protect sons after swastika and racism incidents

A Texas woman is accusing her sons’ school district of failing to condemn racism after she says they were subjected to anti-Asian American taunts on the bus, and her older boy had a swastika drawn on his shirt last year.

Hai Au Huynh, 45, told NBC News that she feels she has no choice but to speak out publicly after the incidents at Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, just outside Houston.

She described how in May of last year, a swastika was drawn on her 11-year-old son’s shirt. School officials have continuously refused to honor the family’s “stay away” request for the offending students since, Huynh said. And months earlier, in January, when a student taunted Huynh’s sons on the bus coming home from McGown Elementary School — chanting “[ch*** ch***] wing wong,” at her youngest, then 8 — officials responded that the words were “not motivated by racism.”

Huynh said she viewed surveillance video from the bus that captured the incident, but was unable to obtain a copy despite requesting it.

The school district looked into the incident and a summary of the investigation, seen by NBC News, said that the fourth-grade student was “singing a song he presumably heard from TIK TOK with the words ‘ch*** ch***.’”