A 海角换妻 town is dealing with another incident in which a student in the district is being accused of committing an alleged racist act.
Students from the Shelton Intermediate School were thrown out of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Friday after a white male student allegedly spit on a black patron.
The students were on a field trip at the Smithsonian and, after the incident, they were asked to leave. It comes at a critical time for administrators in the district 鈥� about a month after a different middle school student apologized to her classmates for posting a Snapchat photo of herself in black face with a caption that included a racial slur.
鈥淚 said to myself, 鈥榃e鈥檙e here again,鈥欌�� said Greg Johnson, the president of the Ansonia Valley chapter of the NAACP.
Johnson said he recently appeared in front of Shelton鈥檚 board of education to ask the board and the district superintendent about acting on the previous incident.
鈥淚 just stood in front of the board of education in Shelton and the superintendent and pleaded with them to hold these students accountable for these racists behaviors or these behaviors would fester. It holds true to what happened in Washington D.C.,鈥� Johnson said.
Christopher Clouet, the superintendent of schools in Shelton, addressed the incident with community-at-large via Facebook the day it happened.
鈥淭his is not the time or place to talk about consequences,鈥� said Clouet in the written statement. 鈥淏ut this is now, regrettably, a pattern of behavior that is disrespectful and does not serve anyone well 鈥攊ncluding the student who acted inappropriately and embarrassed himself and his school.鈥�
Maeve Holler graduated from Shelton High in 2013. She tweeted about the incident, saying it didn鈥檛 surprise her.
why did this have to be the middle school i went to? 馃ぎ shelton, you will ALWAYS disappoint me, but unfortunately this doesn鈥檛 surprise me
— mev (@tplogrnny)
鈥淚t鈥檚 behavior like this that comes from a community that doesn鈥檛 want to acknowledge that racism and classism and things like that exist in their community,鈥� Holler said to 海角换妻 Radio after a reporter followed up with her about the tweet.
Holler said she remembers there being a general sense of apathy toward issues of race in Shelton schools 鈥� particularly in the curriculum.
鈥淔rom what I remember, Shelton Public Schools was a majority white public school system, so that is one factor that leads to a lot of people not acknowledging that racism exists,鈥� Holler said. 鈥淏ut beyond that, there鈥檚 very little education that is offered to students about these issues.鈥�
Johnson, the NAACP chapter president, said he wants the student to be suspended and face criminal charges for the incident. He also said he鈥檚 done with the school principal 鈥� who, according to the , said the alleged act comes more from stupidity than racism.
School was closed Monday for a holiday. The superintendent and the principal weren鈥檛 available for comment.
