A high school principal has been put on leave after a Black student had the N-word scrawled on their desk — and their parents weren’t told about it for four days.
The Washington Post reported it was the second racist incident at Wooton High School, in Maryland, since May.
The school district sent an apology email to parents Sunday.
“We want to begin by stating unequivocally that discrimination and hate and bias in any form will not be tolerated in Montgomery County Public Schools,” it wrote.
“As district wide school leaders, the response was not up to our expectations, and we need to do better.”
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Principal Douglas Nelson has been placed on administrative leave.
In May, a ninth-grader in the school was punished after he printed the N-word on 1,000 pieces of paper. Critics said the response to that was also slow.
“What they’re doing now should have come sooner, though we do appreciate the sense of urgency and resources that have now been channeled to the school,” said Nkem Okeke, a parent of a Wootton sophomore and the liaison for the school’s African American Parent Student Network
