This past weekend, we had a couple of incidents involving school email lists and I wanted to bring you up to speed on what happened and what we are doing to prevent this from happening in the future.  One of our students sent an email to a variety of class lists. In the ensuing confusion and responses, one of our students used a derogatory term that is associated with people with disabilities.

I want to apologize to those students harmed by this statement.  We have made clear repeatedly this year that any speech used to harm is not acceptable and does not reflect what we believe and who we are as a school community.  There’s no finish line to this work, and I continue to ask our parents and community to reinforce to our students that what we say – in person, over email, on social media – matters, and whether intentional or not has the ability to cause real harm.