middle schoolers use art project letters to spell out slur

[Demovictory9]

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The Martin County School District says a photo showing a group of six students holding up a letter to spell out a racial slur in front of a school is authentic.

"Complete shock," said district spokeswoman Jennifer DeShazo, on Tuesday afternoon.

A parent of a student at Hidden Oaks Middle School in Palm City first reported the photo to the school district.

Caption: School district to determine what to do with students behind racist photo, Denise Sawyer reports, May 17, 2022. (WPEC)
The photo is of six middle school students posing with large, colorful letters spelling out the N-word. Screenshots of the post began circulating within hours on Facebook.

DeShazo said the students involved could face the highest level of punishment possible under the student code of conduct, a punishment that could extend into next year.

"We don't tolerate this," said DeShazo.

The district said the photo came from an annual art project involving 3D letters from the names of students. In this incident, the students rearranged the letters to spell out the racially insensitive word.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/student-racial-slur-photo-sparks-outrage-and-investigation-in-martin-county/ar-AAXnXyM

[Rhiannon12866]

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[nuxvomica]

14. I agree with Jill DeSouza, and Oscar Hammerstein II

The problem is with the kids' parents.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Disgusting!!

[IcyPeas]

3. I was curious about the racial demographics:

Martin County is in Florida -- i had to look it up. Palm City is to the north of west palm beach.

Racial breakdown of the school:

White 7.3%
Hispanic:14.9%
Asian:2.8%
Two or more races:2.8%
African American:1.7%
American Indian:0.4%

[hlthe2b]

9. Thanks for that. Going through the entire stream I wasn't sure where it had occurred

and when representatives from a popular program fighting this kind of crap in Colorado weighed in I was left even more devastated thinking it had occurred in Colorado (not saying it couldn't, but still). Florida makes sense given DePutin's red light to the racists.

But, admittedly I am choking up a little bit seeing this. What portends our future?

[TheRickles]

10. A typo - maybe white is 73.0%? But even that doesn't add up to 100%....

[JanMichael]

11. 77.3%

[TheRickles]

12. Thanks!

[Skittles]

4. what is HOMS

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Hidden Oaks Middle school, I guess. Was mentioned in excerpt but I don' see the acronym or explanati

[Skittles]

8. ah yes I see it in the link

would love to see the parents of these youths interviewed

[anarch]

13. Hateful Odiferous Motherfucking Scumbags?

well probably not, but....

[tishaLA]

5. "racially insensitive word" the report says

The day to use euphemisms to say "racism" and "racist" are long past.

[Skittles]

7. absolutely correct

that type of wording makes it sound like it is only offensive to POC, which is absolutely not true

[MissMillie]

15. What breaks my heart about this is...

...kids are supposed to represent the future.

There's a whole population out there that denies that racism still exists and thinks that people of color, women, and jews should just "get over" past grievances.

But obviously it's not over. And if this is the "future" it's not going to be over any time soon.

[llashram]

17. parents

not teaching children well if they felt 'free' enough to discriminate as they did. This is horrible and disgusting.

[Michaelkelly]

18. Response to original post by Demovictory9

Very well said; I agree with this; why don't some people understand that this is the problem of parents and their children's education?