Update on Petition for Wake County School Administration to Address Bullying and Discipline Issues

Thank you for your interest in this petition to ask the Wake County School Board and our school administrators to provide a broader response to incidents of racial bullying which have occurred at Wake Forest High School, and also recently with students from Leesville Rd Middle School. Thanks to public pressure, news media coverage and concern from students, parents and school staff, there will be several discussions among administrators in the next few days about what can be done to address this issue. From WRAL.com on March 14... Wake Co. School Board Chair "Monika Johnson-Hostler is also speaking out. “We are just as disheartened. The words I heard used earlier, many of what we heard and seen are absolutely horrific and reprehensible,” Johnson-Hostler said. "Today I am here to say we are absolutely committed to address the racial tensions in our school system." Johnson-Hostler said there are plans to talk about the issues in a meeting with district principals Thursday. "This is something that clearly has been on the hearts and minds of myself as the board chair," she said. Short and long-term possible solutions will be delivered by the superintendent next week and the local NAACP chapter has it's own forum planned for the weekend." Thank you for helping to get this discussion going! FYI: The Raleigh-Apex NAACP chapter will be hosting a community conversation this Sat., March 18 at 10am at the Martin St. Baptist Church in Raleigh, to discuss the unfair discipline of minority students in schools. https://www.facebook.com/events/192703271222743/