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RandySF

(59,396 posts)
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 01:12 AM Aug 2019

California district to address 'hate' after video shows students giving Nazi salutes

A California school district on Monday said it would work to address “issues of hate, bias and exclusion” after a video was published showing students giving stiff-arm salutes and singing a Nazi marching song.

In a statement, the Garden Grove Unified School District said the video — which was obtained by the Daily Beast — was filmed in November at an off-campus athletics banquet and shared on SnapChat.

When school administrators learned of the video’s “offensive behavior” four months later, they took “immediate action and addressed the situation with all students and families involved.”

Citing federal law, the school said it could not disclose details of the students’ discipline.

The school said it had reached out to community organizations for support and to “ensure and anti-bias learning environment.”



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-district-address-hate-after-video-shows-students-giving-nazi-n1044191?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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California district to address 'hate' after video shows students giving Nazi salutes (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2019 OP
Yesterday their statements made no mention of doing something in the future, just that they had RockRaven Aug 2019 #1
show the kiddies the same films shown at Nuremberg Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #2

RockRaven

(15,020 posts)
1. Yesterday their statements made no mention of doing something in the future, just that they had
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 01:22 AM
Aug 2019

addressed the problem.

A crap load of negative attention and suddenly they have a plan for something they "would work to" do. So when asked about it at first they had a "hey, we already took care of it" response, but one day of bad headlines and they're all "we're totes doing something super cereal, promise!"

Yeah, I'm not inclined to believe they give a shit about anything but making the negative attention go away. And that's a fucking awful mindset for a goddamned school district to have.

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