The Cleveland School District in the Mississippi Delta is up to its old habits. Olecia James is suing the District for robbing her of the honor of being named salutatorian of the recently integrated Cleveland Central High School in 2018 due to its fear of white flight, reported the Clarion Ledger.

In her lawsuit James alleges she had a higher weighted Grade Point Average (GPA) than the white student named salutatorian. According to James, the District lowered her points because they feared naming her the school’s first Black salutatorian would cause white flight.

Cleveland Central High School was created in 2017 after a federal judge ordered historically-white Cleveland High and majority-Black East Side High to consolidate.

James’ incident occurred just two years after another student, Jasmine Shepard, sued the same district for forcing her to share her valedictorian post with a white student with a lower GPA.

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In her lawsuit James accuses the school district of “longstanding, widespread, deliberately indifferent custom, habit, practice and/or policy” of discrimination against Black students.

She also lost a scholarship to the University of Mississippi, affectionately called Ole Miss., because she was not given salutatorian honor, reported Mississippi Today.

“I was so heartbroken. I was hurt. I had a blank stare at one moment and I just cried,” she said. “I wouldn’t know how it felt because it wasn’t mine to have, but when I knew what I had and should’ve had, it hurt. It just hurt a different way,” James said.