A high school in Indiana is under investigation after its yearbook listed one of its students as "Black Guy".
Brown County High School, a public school in Nashville (approximately 50 miles south of Indianapolis) posted a photo caption in the school's 2020 yearbook listing a student on the boy's basketball team by the ignorant racial term instead of by his name.
In this Facebook Live video, Hammack apologized for the incident:
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According to CNN affiliate WRTV, the student in question has not been publicly identified and appears to be the only person of color playing in the team photo.
Taking to Facebook Live in a recent video, Brown County school superintendent Laura Hammack has apologized for the caption, and claims that the yearbook is organized by students.
She made it clear that an investigation is ongoing, noting that the situation is a violation of the district's nondiscrimination policy, and that the school district intends on reprinting the yearbook, with the district itself taking on the added cost of the recall and reprint.
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Hammack stated:
"This has been a hard day, but what is most important is that this has been a really hard day for a student and for a family.
"We will work hard to make sure that a student and a family who are experiencing what they're experiencing today don't need to experience the same feelings moving forward.
"I just commit to our school community that we will be relentless in making this right and making this a moment that we can certainly look back on and one day say we're doing better."
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She added: "As an educator, my only response that I know to do is to dig in, to learn more, and to use resources to be able to advance our understanding and awareness so that we can do the same for our students."
According to state data, there were 577 students enrolled at Brown County High School in the 2019-20 school year, over 92% of whom were white/caucasian. However, state data also indicates that there were no students who identified as black or African-America enrolled at the school last year.