WILLIAMSTOWN â Mount Greylock Regional School District leaders are decrying a racist incident that interrupted a virtual class held Jan. 21.
âObviously, this starts with a very hurt individual and a very hurt family who were victims,â Superintendent Jason âJakeâ McCandless said after the statement had been read into the record during a special school panel session Thursday. âThen that hurt extends to a classroom and that hurt extends to a school, and then a whole community.â
The incident in question occurred as students were taking a self-guided midterm assessment, according to an incident report shared by Principal Jacob Schutz. As the class was wrapping up, an unknown student who was impersonating another student already in the class unmuted the mic to allow a song to be heard by the entire class. The song included profanity and an anti-Black epithet.
Racist incident during Zoom class at Mount Greylock Regional School in Williamstown under investigation, officials say
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Officials at Mount Greylock Regional School laid out a series of measures Thursday they say will be implemented to address a racist incident that occurred during a Zoom class at the Berkshire County school last week.
Citing an incident report from Principal Jacob Schutz, The Berkshire Eagle reported that on Jan. 21, an unknown student impersonated one of their peers during the virtual class and unmuted themself to play a song that included lyrics saying “f the n-word.” The individual is believed to have been targeting another student with the song.
From Principal Jacob Schutz: Mount Greylock Regional School is committed to being a community that promotes the ideals of diversity, belonging, inclusion and equity. We recognize the presence of systemic racism and pledge to do the work to build an antiracist school community. Mount Greylock Regional School (@MGMounties) January 21, 2021 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. Mount Greylock Regional School is investigating an incident in which an intruder entered a virtual classroom to target a student with racist audio. Principal Jacob Schutz and Assistant Principal Colin Shebar notified the school community of the Thursday incident in a campuswide email at 4:56 on Thursday, about four hours after the school acknowledged the incident on its Twitter account.
WILLIAMSTOWN â The Mount Greylock Regional School District is investigating a racist incident that occurred Thursday during a high school class on Zoom.
Parents were notified of the incident through an email that Superintendent Jason âJakeâ McCandless sent Thursday afternoon.
âWe want our entire community to know that we believe every child and family belong here, are valued here, and that we will not accept language, actions, or inactions that suggest otherwise,â he wrote. âBeginning with me, the superintendent, we all must be better and do more to protect our children, dismantle structural racism, and promote peace. We believe the entire community will benefit from clear communication around the events and follow-up of todayâs events.â
Mount Greylock Regional School is investigating an incident of an intruder entering a virtual classroom to target a student with racist audio.
I berkshires.com reports that principal Jacob Schutz and Assistant Principal Colin Shebar notified the school community of the Thursday incident in a campus-wide email at 4:56 yesterday, about four hours after the school acknowledged the incident on its Twitter account.
According to the school s incident report, which was shared in the email, at the end of a high school class, a student lied his or her way into the room and played a song that involved the lyric, f k the (n-word).