Teen plans to sue LI school district for refusing to publish her George Floyd poem A Long Island teen plans to sue her predominantly white school district for $2 million — for refusing to publish her poem about the police-custody death of George Floyd in its literary magazine. Administrators at Port Jefferson’s Vandermeulen High School in Suffolk County banned 10th-grader Ruby Ray’s sonnet “in order to please, protect, promote, placate and defend white racism in Respondents’ school and community, and white racism in general,” alleges the notice of claim filed Tuesday by her family, who are white.