“ya’ll think your cool cause the color of your skins, black, but I think we should bring the kkk back,” one said. More than a dozen students who were involved in the racist texting, and the scuffle that followed, as well as those who videotaped the fight, were suspended, said School Superintendent Joseph Bollendorf.Īccording to a screenshot of the Snapchat post obtained by the Inquirer and Daily News, the N-word was used several times. The students want change.”Ĭlasses on Friday resumed without incident or protest. “We wanted to make a statement that this is not OK. “We needed to get their attention,” said Kayla Webster, 16, a junior, who helped lead the demonstration and is president of the school’s African American cultural club. Some students said that there had been similar incidents previously, and that school officials had not adequately addressed their concerns. Washington TownshipĪt Washington Township High School, students staged a sit-in Thursday in the school lobby after some white students, most of them athletes, exchanged social-media messages with racial slurs, leading to a confrontation between some white and black students. Making the incidents especially troublesome is that Coatesville is one of the most diverse schools in the area, with a student body that’s 47 percent white, 31 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic, 1 percent Asian and 3 percent multiracial. The offensive pumpkin carvings come after a black doll was found hanging in a locker at the school earlier this month. Superintendent Cathy Taschner called that incident a “foolish prank,” though others wanted it called a hate crime. In protest, several hundred of them walked out of class Friday morning. Coatesville students said with their feet that wasn’t enough. The school district said it would “exercise its full authority” to send a message that the picture and carvings were not acceptable.
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