Nancy Navarro, president of the Montgomery County Council. The reaction followed a weekend incident involving two ninth-grade students at Walt Whitman High School, who posted an image of themselves in blackface on social media and used the n-word as they described the photo. “I want to emphasize as strongly as possible that this type of behavior will not be tolerated at Walt Whitman High School,” Dodd said in the letter, adding that the students would receive significant disciplinary consequences. It was listed among the top 100 high schools nationally in a U.S. News & World Report ranking this week. And earlier this school year, there was an incident at Whitman involving someone saying the racial epithet, said Montgomery County schools spokeswoman Gboyinde Onijala.

Source: Washington Post April 30, 2019 22:55 UTC