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🌱 Patch AM: LWE Girls' Cross Country Coach, Team Accused Of Racist Taunts Toward H-F Runners: School

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  • H-F runners report racist taunts as school vows legal action

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• LWE Girls' Cross Country Coach, Team Accused Of Racist Taunts Toward H-F Runners: School (patch.com) — Homewood-Flossmoor High School leaders say their girls' cross country runners reported racist taunts from a Lincoln-Way East coach and athletes at a weekend meet, just after a similar incident at a football game in Homewood. Lincoln-Way officials dispute the characterization but acknowledge community concerns, while IHSA and H-F both pledge investigations and H-F plans legal action to protect its students.
   

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