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.
“I want to apologize for this vulgar display and am disappointed that it occurred. I can assure the Roswell community that this type of behavior is unacceptable, not only to the leadership at our school but our students as well,” Shaw wrote.
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