Racial Harassment Continues at Danville's Monte Vista High

DANVILLE, CA — For the second time this month, Monte Vista High School said African American students are experiencing racial harassment, ABC7 News reported Thursday. The San Ramon Valley Unified District, which oversees the campus, told the station that it will not tolerate such behavior and there will be consequences, though the district wouldn't elaborate on what those consequences would be.

At Monte Vista High, just 14 of the school's 2,448 students are African American, according to state enrollment statistics.

School officials first sent home a letter on Dec. 6 saying that they were frustrated by reports of racial harassment and a second letter was sent Wednesday after additional incidents were reported throughout the week, district spokesperson Christopher George told ABC7.

In a video gone viral, a white Monte Vista student called an African American male the n-word in American Sign Language, DanvilleSanRamon.com reported. The district would not elaborate on specific incidents of racist incidents, the paper reported.

Six in 10 Monte Vista High students are white, two in ten are Asian and nearly one in ten are Hispanic, enrollment statistics show. Two percent of the student body is Filipino and a sixth of a percentage point are African American.

Read more at ABC7 News and Pleasanton Weekly.