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After heartbreaking allegations of racism in Fairfield schools, NAACP helps make a plan
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FAIRFIELD Officials and residents want more to be done to combat racism in town.
School officials, members of the police department and the Rev. D Stanley Lord, president of the Greater Bridgeport NAACP, met Monday after two brothers reported they were the victims of two separate allegedly racist incidents involving students from Warde and Ludlowe high schools.
Superintendent Mike Cummings said the group “had an extremely productive discussion focusing on how we move forward. This is just the beginning of our work together to support the students and staff of Fairfield Public Schools and we appreciate having (NAACP) as a resource.”
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Thousands have signed an online petition calling for the expulsion of a Warde student who has been charged in connection with a racist Snapchat post. (Shutterstock/Zerbor)
FAIRFIELD, CT Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the expulsion of a 16-year-old student at Fairfield Warde High School, who is charged in connection with a racist Snapchat post targeting a classmate. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) shouldn t have to encounter this type of racist harassment from other students in a predominantly white institution, the petition said. Fairfield Warde High School should take racism seriously, and the student who posted the racist comment should be expelled immediately.
UpdatedThu, May 13, 2021 at 11:37 am ET
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There have been two recent racist incidents involving Fairfield students. (Anna Bybee-Schier/Patch)
FAIRFIELD, CT Two Fairfield siblings have twice in the same week been targets of racist attacks, according to their mother.
Judith Medor said the weekend after her son, Jamar, was the subject of a racist Snapchat post, Jamar s brother, Jake, received a video call from several Fairfield Ludlowe High School students, who called him a racial slur. I don t know what to say, I m speechless, Judith said. I have no idea what they re being taught at home.
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Jamar is a sophomore at Fairfield Warde High School and Jake is a freshman.
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Fairfield schools won t offer a full-time remote learning option next school year. (Shutterstock)
FAIRFIELD, CT There will be no full-time remote learning option for Fairfield students next school year, the superintendent confirmed Thursday.
The school district had already clarified that its Remote Learning Academy, created in mid-2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, would not return for the fall semester, but added this week that no other option for voluntary daily access to remote learning would be available.
In a message to parents, Superintendent Mike Cummings cited guidance from the state Department of Education, which said that the mandate for districts to provide remote learning opportunities for all students would not extend beyond the current school year.