DANVERS, Mass. — Officials at Danvers Public Schools are investigating after a three-year-old video of a student on the high school wrestling team using racist language led to a fight between two students, DPS wrote in a release to families Tuesday.
The student from that video was one of the two involved in the fight, DHS said. The subsequent investigation of the fight led officials to discover a group Snapchat among the wrestling team that contained, “references to hazing and hateful and biased language.”
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“While we believe not all team members are active participants in this chat, we will be suspending all team activities until our investigation is complete,” DHS wrote Tuesday.
The fight, which officials said took place last week, was also reported to Danvers Police. The school district added that discipline will be handed out in accordance with the student handbook.
“For the protection of my own mental health, I had to learn not to look at the social media comments while at the same time take a critical look at how the situation was handled,” said Danvers Superintendent Lisa Dana.
“The issues of racism, homophobia and antisemitism are not issues I or the school district can solve on our own.”
This is the latest in a string of incidents that have occurred at Danvers Public Schools.
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Back in early November, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti was found in the bathroom of a Danvers middle school. Around that same time, allegations of racist, violent, homophobic behavior and a text chain from the 2010-2020 Danvers hockey team caused major issues for the school district, leading some to call for the resignation of Superintendent Dana.
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