Hundreds of students at an Oregon high school walked out of their classrooms after a classmate’s racist TikTok began to make the rounds.
In the video, a female student sitting in bed methodically recites racial slurs for Black people, Muslims, Asians and Latinos. Another student behind the camera encourages her with questions.
Sorko-Ram said she immediately recognized the girl in the video — they had passed each other in the school’s front office before. While hearing those words come out of her mouth was a shock to the system, she said it was hard to be surprised.High school and district officials said they couldn’t comment on whether the student is still on campus, but noted that a range of punishments are explored in these situations. For hate speech, though, expulsion is usually not one of them.
Friends have been followed home and called slurs in passing, Sorko-Ram said, and many are too afraid to come forward. The bar is set high for expulsion, said the superintendent for the Tigard-Tualatin School District, Sue Rieke-Smith, who joined the students in their walkout. “That list is very short and tight,” she said. “Typically, it has to do with threats of violence or repeated acts that demonstrate that the student does not want to be a member of the community.”
Since the TikTok has had a significant impact on students’ learning, Rieke-Smith said, more disciplinary avenues have opened up to administrators. She can’t share what will happen to this specific student, but “the gamut can run anywhere from an in-school suspension to an out-of-school suspension to seeking other disciplinary avenues.”
The district is still investigating the incident, and in the meantime, Rieke-Smith said student affinity groups like the Black Student Union are being used as forums to discuss the video and its aftereffects. The school has also established listening sessions where students can come forward. In response to students who say racism runs deep at Tigard, Rieke-Smith concedes that it’s a nationwide problem.
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