Racist Graffiti At North Shore School Sparks Tolerance Education

North Shore Middle School students will participate in a series of Town Hall assemblies starting Thursday after racist graffiti was found at the school last week.

The graffiti found in the boys bathroom on Thursday, March 16 was “racial” and “anti-semitic,” North Shore Schools Superintendent Dr. Edward Melnick told Patch.

School principal Dr. Marc Ferris sent out an email to all parents and police were notified of the graffiti after it was discovered Thursday afternoon. Melnick said the incident under an active police investigation.

Since the discovery of the racist graffiti, the school district has amped up their character education and sensitivity training.

"We do a lot of training throughout the year,” Melnick said. “We do a lot of character education, tolerance and cultural proficiency training."

During the Town Hall assemblies, a Third Precinct Nassau County Police officer and a member of the Holocaust Museum of Nassau County will speak to the students.

Melnick says the middle school government is also holding a public awareness campaign by putting up posters throughout the school to remind kids of tolerance.

The school hopes this enhanced tolerance education will prevent racist symbols appearing on school grounds in the future.

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