Community Leaders Call For Change At The Top After Racist Attack On Sacramento Vice Principal

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The Sacramento City Unified superintendent has refused to reply questions aft the vice main astatine West Campus High School spoke retired astir hatred code she’s endured for years.

Now, assemblage groups are calling for alteration astatine the top.

“They referred to her arsenic Black Hitler, and [wrote the n-word] 5 times connected the partition adjacent the vice principal’s parking spot,” said Betty Williams with the Sacramento NAACP.

She’s calling for systemic alteration wrong the district.

“Why are you allowing your unit to beryllium threatened by your students? Its insane,” she said.

Community leaders are demanding harsh penalties for those liable for the threats connected societal media and racist graffiti near connected the grounds of the precocious schoolhouse targeting Dr. Elysee Versher.

“Students inactive look astatine maine and parents arsenic thing much than an [n-word],” Dr. Versher said.

In an affectional interview, she shared however she’s been treated.

The caller attacks are believed to beryllium tied to a pistillate pupil suspended for wearing a harvest apical against formal codification policy.

“Because you privation to deterioration a harvest apical to school, present I’m the Black Hitler,” Dr. Versher said.

Williams says these attacks are not new, citing a past of racism astatine West Campus passim the 3 years Dr. Versher has been vice principal.

Now, a soundless schoolhouse territory has denied for days our requests for an interrogation astir whether determination is simply a district-wide contention occupation and what leaders program to bash astir it.

CBS13 has not received answers to elemental questions similar the following:

What is the radical constitution of teachers successful the school? And successful the district?
And person determination been different radical problems astatine West Campus?

Community leaders accidental that soundlessness is deafening and this teacher deserves change.

“You’re looking astatine the information of this teacher, she wants to travel backmost and consciousness safe,” Williams said.

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Superintendent Jorge Aguilar did amusement up to the NAACP property conference. He and the schoolhouse main person some issued statements but person yet to talk publically astir what the territory and the schoolhouse are doing to enactment the vice main and achromatic students.