In a letter read at a Martin Luther King Jr. assembly this week and posted on the student news website, members of the association suggest the school administration has treaded lightly when it comes to punishing students and teachers who act inappropriately.
The students said, “While we share pride in Lab’s attempts to promote diversity, this is still a deeply flawed and imperfect institution. Lab is a place where jokes about racial and religious identification have been normalized … where black students get their hair gawked at and constantly touched … where many students of color unfairly feel the need to internalize racist and harmful ‘jokes’ in order to assimilate and survive.”
They implore “the administration to create and swiftly enact specific consequences for the use of intolerant language and actions, regardless of a student or teachers financial background, donations and long-standing relationships between that person and the school.”