We want the administration of Oak Ridge High School to suspend the students involved in chanting racial and inappropriate slurs at the players on the McClatchy team. The Oak Ridge High School students involved need to be held accountable for their racist and disrespectful behavior. The Oak Ridge High School administrative staff needs to ensure this behavior does not continue by investigating this incident until the perpetrators are identified, and set an example by punishing those involved. 

"Racial taunts and body-shaming insults directed at McClatchy High School girls basketball players during a recent playoff game at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills continue to anger parents from the Sacramento school.

McClatchy parent Glen Kumamoto said the derogatory comments by student spectators against Asian American players on the visiting McClatchy team were worse than anything he has heard at his daughter’s games.

“We have played in gyms all across Sacramento and the Bay Area,” said Kumamoto, 47. “We have never, ever been subjected to anything like that. We have never been more disrespected than we were in that gym.”

He said the taunts came from the Oak Ridge student section during the Feb. 25 game in which Oak Ridge defeated McClatchy, the defending CIF State Division I champion, 40-33 in the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs.

The taunts included chants of “soy sauce,” “go back to Fiji” and references to “small eyes,” Kumamoto said. In addition, students delivered insults that were not racial, but still hurtful.

“We have one player with a heavier build, and every time she came in they would yell, ‘Outback Steakhouse,’ ” he said. “They would yell, ‘You’re ugly.’ ”

Others heard the McClatchy cheer crew being insulted with comments about their weight, according to Kumamoto." (via Sacramento Bee - http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article65130847.html

"Their entire cheering section would just shout at us, 'you guys are trash, you guys are ugly, you guys are fat,'" a C.K. McClatchy cheerleader said. "I went home to my mom and cried." (via KCRA - http://www.kcra.com/news/oak-ridge-hs-apologizes-to-ck-mcclatchy-hs-for-raciallycharged-taunts/38458456