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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.
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
In a service full of hopeful songs and encouraging words, St. John s Missionary Baptist Church kept the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. alive Monday with its annual MLK Youth Program.
The program opened with a few words of welcome from the Rev. Allen Smith followed by the singing of Lift Every Voice and Sing.
A big theme of the day was about King s dream to unite people from different backgrounds in the United States to make it better and to move forward by loving those people.
The first speaker was a Kansas Wesleyan University student, D Andre Childress, who told the story of his life, about the questions he had to ask, such as who the Ku Klux Klan is and why people look at him differently because of the color of his skin.