Parents attend meeting with Highlands SD leaders to discuss racially driven bullying

ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — Parents and residents attended a meeting Tuesday night to speak to Highlands School District leaders about racially driven bullying in Natrona Heights.

The meeting was held at Grace United Methodist Church.

Sanika Pitt, who has two children in the school district, told Channel 11 News that she feels her complaints about racist behavior have been ignored.

“(My daughter’s) calling me crying because the little boy told her to go back to the plantation,” Pitt said.

An image of a fake license to hunt black people, which included a racial slur, was originally taken by a student and then shared to other Highlands High School students at via Snapchat.

“What we can say is we addressed it quickly and fairly, and with our superintendent together as a team,” Highlands High School Principal Kim Price said.

School leaders said they can’t detail what punishment the student faced, adding their mission now is to try to find a way to move forward.

Since the hunting license incident, the district started an initiative to promote diversity, working with the NAACP.

The district’s superintendent said new leadership has been installed at the high school in order to spark the change the district needed.

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