Paw Paw Public Schools are now under investigation by the US Department of Education after complaints of racially motivated problems

Officially the department is looking into the school because of complaints from the ACLU. Early in 2019 the ACLU announced they were investigating several alleged incidents. Only one of those incidents is being looked at by the feds; where a Native American student was harassed by classmates.

The wording used by the Department of Ed says their investigation will determine ” whether the district effectively caused, encouraged, accepted, tolerated or failed to correct a racially hostile environment for Native American persons at its high school.”

The schools “Redskins” mascot has been a point of contention in the past.