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An Oregon mother whose black daughter was caught selling drugs to other students has accused school officials of racism after they expelled her over the offense.

Janet Neron-Nyang’oro claims her daughter was unfairly targeted because she was one of a handful of black students at Sunset High School in Beaverton in 2019.

But her now-adult daughter was caught red handed selling Adderall, a prescription medication used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder which often doubles as a ‘study drug’.

She claims that teachers forced her to pull up her shirt and band of her sports bra away from her body to expose the concealed drugs.

Despite it being her first offense, she was expelled and given the option to return a year later.

This prompted her mom to file a complaint against the school district which ultimately found that the expulsion followed policy and was not discriminatory.

But Neron-Nyang’oro told Oregon Live that the incident scarred her daughter: ‘Does she like college? Does she like school? No.’

Neron-Nyang’oro said that her daughter was one of only 30 black students at the high school, and alleged that she was unfairly picked on by the teachers who caught her selling Adderall to other students.

She also claimed that rather than send her daughter back to the high school a year later, she was also offered the chance to send her daughter to Bridges Academy, which she termed a ‘segregation school’.

While Sunset High School had just 30 black students, representing 1.4 percent of all students, Bridges Academy was made up largely of students of color.

A school official described the academy as being ‘designed to support students who had been expelled from their comprehensive schools’ and is intended to re-integrate students back to schools after their expulsion.

Neron-Nyang’oro’s daughter admitted to Oregon Live that she, ‘was not around the right group of people’ at the time and her friends often smoked marijuana and took Xanax.

She said she enjoyed Bridges Academy because it gave her one-on-one teaching.

‘It was one-on-one, helping kids so they can actually succeed,’ she said.

Asked whether she was bothered by the higher percentage of students of color, she said she ‘didn’t care’.

‘That school was for kids that were getting expelled or were getting in trouble a lot,’ she said.

In the school district’s response to Neron-Nyang’oro’s complaint, Ginny Hansmann, Beaverton School District’s deputy superintendent, ruled: ‘All first-time sellers of dangerous drugs were expelled.

‘In light of the data showing that (the school district) treated all selling incidents similarly regardless of race, there is no indication that the discipline was greater than other similarly situated students.’

Hansmann also cited data that showed from 2015 to 2019, just 9.6 percent of students that were expelled from the high school were black.

According to Oregon Live, the alleged racism case is one of several that Oregon education authorities have delayed handling for years.

The state granted itself eight separate deadlines to conclude the case, citing ‘the size and scope of the investigation,’ the ‘complexity of the legal issues before the department’ and ‘the number of appeals currently filed with the department’.

Although the school district said it expels all students who are caught dealing drugs, Neron-Nyang’oro alleges that her daughter was hit with ‘excessive exclusionary consequences’ that ‘changed her outlook on school’.

Daily Mail has contacted the Beaverton School District and Oregon Department of Education for comment.