Roswell student disciplined for ‘whites only’ water fountain sign

A Roswell High School student was disciplined after school officials said he posted signs above two hall water fountains -- one sign read “whites only” and the second said “other.”

Roswell principal Robert Shaw wrote in a letter to the school community that the Thursday incident was brought to his attention by a student who showed him a photo taken in a school hall near the main gymnasium.  The photo showed the two signs “handwritten on notebook paper and taped to the wall over the water fountains.”

Shaw said a school police officer used video surveillance cameras to identify the student who posted the signs. The 16-year-old student admitted he did it and said it was a “joke,” the principal wrote. The picture made its way onto social media, and the student received “appropriate disciplinary action,” the principal wrote.