
A group of Utah high school students were disciplined after video of them shouting and giggling while saying, âFuck niggers,â blew up on social media.
The Weber School District in Ogden, Utah, declined to detail how the five girls were punished, according to BuzzFeed, only stating that âappropriate actionsâ were taken.
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The controversial videoâwhich showed the teens all wide-eyed and grinningâwent viral after a high school football player posted it on Twitter. The school district attempted to explain whitesplain it away, saying that the girls were yelling, âSerggin cuff,â but that when they uploaded it to Instagram and used the ârewindâ feature, it came out sounding like the slur.
I mean, itâs not like the girls didnât know, when they uploaded and rewound the video, that what they said would sound like âFuck niggersâ ... except they probably did, so ...
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Anyway, as BuzzFeed notes, although the video was done off campus, which typically restricts school officialsâ ability to punish students, a spokesperson for the Weber School District, Lane Findlay, said that there were exceptions when studentsâ behavior âcreates substantial disruption.â
âIn this particular case, the video that was made created a substantial disruption at Weber High School and adversely affected many students, including some of our minority students,â the district said in a lengthy statement.
In addition, three of the five girls were members of the Weber High School cheerleading squad and were consequently âheld to a higher standardâ because they had signed a âconstitution (code of conduct) that applies on and off campus.â
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Four Weber students told BuzzFeed that the teens had been expelled from the school, but that has not been confirmed. Another student said that he had heard the girls had been expelled but that itâs possible they could also have just been suspended.
The girls told school officials that they were just âplaying aroundâ when they recorded the video, adding that the slur wasnât directed at any person in particular. Findlay said that the students âexpressed sincere regretâ and apologized.
However, Findlay acknowledged that the students did know what they were doing when they recorded the video.
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âHatred only breeds more hatred,â the district added in its statement. âThese are teenagers who made a big mistake, and they will be held accountable.â
Read more at BuzzFeed.

