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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because neither the act nor the response is an outlier for the region. As for comments about Crofton et al two wrongs don’t make a right. [/quote]

The response from the school is definitely an outlier, take note from similar incidents in the same county

[quote] Arundel High School’s principal sent home a letter to parents Monday saying that she was saddened and stunned “by the mere existence of the petition, to say nothing of the wording used in it.” But she also said she was equally heartened by the resolve of staff, parents, students and the community.

“The collective message has been clear: Arundel High School will not be defined by this incident,” Principal Gina Davenport wrote. “We will remain one community that celebrates our diversity.”

[b]Davenport asked parents and students to join her at the school this week to discuss “where we as a community go from here.”[/b]

Two 2014 graduates of Arundel High — Wilglory Tanjong, now a Princeton student, and Irvin McCullough, now a Cornell student — [b]called on school officials to recognize the petition as hate speech, punish the petitioners, clarify policies toward student hate speech, and “educate students about both systemic and overt racism by hosting inclusive discussions and reshaping course curriculums.”[/b][/quote]

[quote] In a letter to parents, the school's principal, Jim Todd, said the message was racist.

[b]"The contents of this post were outrageous, deplorable, and entirely unacceptable. I condemn them in the strongest possible terms," Todd wrote[/b][/quote]

[quote] Walt Whitman High School's Jewish community gathered Thursday morning for a walkout/assembly amid recent cases of antisemitic graffiti in Montgomery County, including one at the school last week. They were joined in the walkout by hundreds of students.[/quote]

Where exactly is this response from SPHS? All I see is SPHS trying to downplay the incident as much as they can (i.e. saying “racial epithet” instead of “racist slur,” saying “belittling towards our special needs student” instead of “using threatening and offensive language towards one of our special needs students.”  I also see that they’re more focused on finding out who airdropped the video than they are on gathering the community together and sending the message that this isn’t okay.
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