Indiana.- A black student from high school Indiana was only identified as “BLACK MAN” in a title of the yearbook, forcing local education officials to publicly apologize for what they called a “truly reprehensible mistake.”
The caption accompanied a photo of the basketball team at the predominantly white Brown County High School in Nashville, Indiana, outside Bloomington, and included the names of all the other players, who appear to be white, according to local WRTV. .
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In the 2020 yearbook, a student was indicated instead of his name, indicated, in quotation marks, ‘black boy,’ said County Superintendent of Schools Laura Hammack in an appearance on Facebook Live Monday night .
“As such, an investigation was launched once we were notified of this indication,” he said.
The nickname was put in large letters as a caption while the other students were given their first and last names.
“We are trying to better understand what this situation is about,” said the school principal.
She said school officials spent Monday “with the family” of “the black student” to make sure we are here to support them and fix this terrible situation. “
This is a clear violation of our nondiscrimination policy. We can’t tell you clearly what happened tonight, Hammack said.
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He said the district is considering reprinting the yearbooks so that it can collect the failed ones and deliver a revised version.
The school principal added that students have contacted the district “disgusted by [la leyenda], and I couldn’t agree more. “
Indiana’s high school has a student population that is 93 percent white and 7 percent minority, according to US News.
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