A middle school student’s mother who said her daughter was beaten and bullied by other students is suing the Clark County School District, which she says failed to keep her daughter safe at school, according to a lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed Monday by attorney Mysty Langford in District Court on behalf of Tomekia Smith, alleged the school district failed to protect Smith’s daughter, an eighth grader at Johnston Middle School in North Las Vegas, from students who were known threats to her safety.

“The bullying to which (Smith’s daughter) has been subjected has been persistent, pervasive and damaging to her health, safety and education,” the complaint filed in the lawsuit said. “Defendants’ deliberate indifference to the known and repeated acts of bullying and violence caused foreseeable ha

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