Hello. I apologize if this sounds ridiculous, I am not sure what I can do, if there is anything I can do, or if I even should do anything.

My son is a visible minority, and he is the only one of his particular ethnicity in the town he lives in with my ex. He's run into some problems with his hockey teams, but recently it's been so bad he's not wanted to go to hockey at all anymore.

He's being bullied in racial ways very badly by a few guys on the team. It's not everyone, but everyone else let's it happen. Especially considering it's the cool guys on the team.

Someone said something that they saw, and he told his mom about something, so she jumped on it. They promised that these children will be punished, but that was it. We now found out that it was much worse than he had wanted to tell us. The coaches, and even the association had been aware of this for a while now, and nobody contacted us, and nothing was done in intervention. A meeting with the association after the fact was absolutely garbage, they once again assured us these boys would be punished, and made excuses for everything. They were solely interesting in protecting the association, and not at all in protecting my son.

They have knowingly allowed discrimination to occur for months without informing us, and without doing anything to stop it. This has allowed a culture of accepting that to begin. NOW that it's something that everyone knows about and accepts, but he ratted the cool guys on the team out, so now they're all punished. He's the youngest on the team, he's good enough for the team, but he's not as strong of a player as any of the bullies, and I know that will factor to.

I feel like if they had made it abundantly clear from the get go that discrimination was not tolerated, it never would have gotten to this point. I feel as though they failed in maintaining a safe space for my son, and I feel that they are failing to do so now as well. I can already hear the punished kids' parents whining about "the race card", invalidating and alienating him even further.

Is this even a legal thing? I don't even know if there is any real avenue for this.