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(www.BlackParents.org) - The parents of a Concord Intermediate School sixth-grader pulled their daughter from the school Tuesday, March 17, after she found threatening notes on her locker two weeks in a row. When NyZeria Neely stopped by her locker between classes Monday, March 16, she was horrified by what she found inside.
“(N-word)s don’t belong!!!” was scrawled across a blue post-it note that had been slipped inside her locker.
It reminded her of the one she found just one week earlier on the outside of her locker that read: “Watch your back.” Concord Intermediate School sixth-grader NyZeria Neely, 11, talked Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at LaCasa in Elkhart about the threatening notes she found left on and in her locker. "I felt aggravated and irritated. I didn'€™t feel comfortable being at school right then and there."
NyZeria, who is the only black student in her high-ability class at the school, said that exacerbates the situation because not everyone understands what she is going through.
Just under 10 percent of Concord Community School’s student population is black, according to the Indiana Department of Education. Only 2 percent of school personnel is black.
So NyZeria, who felt alone and targeted as a black student, took a deep breath and thought about crumpling up the note, but instead she took a picture of the note and then showed it to her teacher.
She said she felt awkward as she explained the notes to her teacher, and then to Principal Chad Stamm.
“He told me not to worry because it’s just words,” NyZeria said. “But it’s more than words. I felt that it was offensive, very offensive.”
Superintendent Wayne Stubbs said he felt the same way about such notes.
“Concord schools finds these situations to be very offensive and unacceptable in our schools,“ he said in an email. “Our building administrators take them seriously, as student safety is always our number one priority.”
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