Wheatland Union High School Superintendent Responds To Racist Social Media Posts By Students

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WHEATLAND (CBS13) — After a representation was circulated connected societal media of respective Wheatland Union High School students with swastikas drawn connected their bodies, the Wheatland Union High School District Superintendent responded.

“As I stated successful my December 20, 2021, statement, I tin corroborate that the students successful the representation are Wheatland Union High School students. As a effect of that confirmation, my squad and I are successful adjacent connection with territory ineligible counsel, arsenic we instrumentality disciplinary action,” said Wheatland Union High School Superintendent Nicole Newman.

The territory acknowledged that the behaviour of these students was unacceptable and harmful and program to marque efforts to marque things right.

“The severity of the disciplinary enactment volition beryllium guided by the facts yielded by the investigatory process, and the ineligible parameters we are bound by arsenic a district. There is nary denying that the choices made by the students successful the representation were hurtful and profoundly troubling. Their actions bash not correspond who we are arsenic a schoolhouse territory and community,” said Newman.

The timing of this lawsuit lone makes things worse, with the vacation play upon us, however, the territory says that they volition determination guardant with disciplinary measures successful spite of this.

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“In the coming days, I volition beryllium contacting our cardinal assemblage stakeholders, arsenic good arsenic cardinal elected officials, to statesman the process of having a broader assemblage speech astir however we tin enactment unneurotic to forestall this benignant of contented from ever happening again,” said Newman.