New York parents demand rival district schools be left off sports schedules due to alleged race issues: report

Parents from a Long Island, New York, precocious schoolhouse are advocating that games against a rival schoolhouse territory ne'er beryllium scheduled again owed to alleged contention issues. 

The Elmont High School’s Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA), arsenic good arsenic the school’s Dad’s Club, held a municipality hallway with Nassau County sports Section VIII officials to sermon what parents are calling a "long past of racist behavior" from the Bellmore-Merrick School District, according to The New York Post.

Also contiguous astatine the municipality hallway were representatives from the Sewanhaka School District, which Elmont High School is under, and the Bellmore-Merrick district.

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A girls varsity hoops crippled connected Feb. 7 betwixt Elmont High School and Kennedy High School was the tipping point. (Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Lynette Battle, who serves connected the Sewanhaka committee of trustees, portion besides being the erstwhile president of the PTSA, called the concern the "definition of insanity," alleging that it is simply a recurring situation.

"Something antithetic has to beryllium done," Battle added. "And idiosyncratic needs to beryllium courageous capable to basal connected business."

The radical incidents allegedly spanned years, but 1 successful peculiar caused a ample disturbance starring up to the meeting. It was a girls varsity hoops crippled connected Feb. 7 betwixt Elmont and Kennedy High School, which is successful the Bellmore-Merrick schoolhouse district, that was the tipping point. 

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During the game, an altercation occurred betwixt 1 subordinate from each side, wherever lone the subordinate from Elmont, who The Post reported is Black, was ejected aft swinging astatine the miss from Kennedy, who is White.

However, erstwhile video came retired showing the subordinate from Kennedy hitting the subordinate from Elmont first, the second appealed the suspension. Though Section VIII initially upheld their determination to suspend the player, she was reinstated and allowed to enactment successful a playoff crippled aft a 2nd appeal. 

Even though Bellmore-Merrick made the determination to voluntarily suspend the Kennedy subordinate progressive successful the altercation, parents from Elmont person intelligibly seen capable to inquire to ne'er spot schools from their rival district, including mediate schools, connected their diversion schedules. 

During the meeting, Battle listed years’ worthy of alleged radical incidents betwixt the schoolhouse districts, including 1 from 2023 during a inferior varsity volleyball crippled betwixt Elmont and Kennedy High Schools, erstwhile fans allegedly taunted Elmont players, calling them "monkeys" and having bananas successful their possession, Battle told The Post.

A akin concern occurred successful December 2021, erstwhile fans from Bellmore-Merrick Mepham High School were allegedly calling girls "monkeys" during a inferior varsity hoops game. Bananas were besides said to beryllium involved. 

A akin concern occurred successful December 2021, erstwhile fans from Bellmore-Merrick Mepham High School were allegedly calling girls "monkeys" during a inferior varsity hoops game. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

With that past incident, the fans were some disciplined, arsenic the Bellmore-Merrick superintendent and diversion manager apologized to Elmont successful idiosyncratic astatine their precocious school, Section VIII Director Patrick Pizzarelli told The Post. 

Battle besides elaborate an incidental successful February 2019, erstwhile Elmont cheerleaders allegedly hurled radical slurs astatine spectators supporting Bellmore-Merrick. She besides claims 1 of the cheerleaders wore an "afro-wig to mock the achromatic players."

Battle added much incidents successful 2022 and 2023 that were allegedly racially charged. However, they were ne'er reported to the indispensable sports powers successful the districts. 

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In response, Section VIII and the districts person held workshops for students connected the teams involved, portion besides "instituting the speechmaking of a civility connection earlier games," The Post reports. 

"Our children are the ones being victimized," Battle retorts. "Why bash they request to beryllium successful the country for a kumbaya moment?"

The Post besides interviewed Jon Johnson of the Dad’s Club, and portion his 3 children whitethorn nary longer beryllium successful the Sewanhaka schoolhouse system, they did each postgraduate from Elmont High School and allegedly dealt with akin radical incidents.

Johnson elaborate 1 involving his "middle son," who played against Wellington C. Mepham High School – different successful the Bellmore-Merrick district. 

Parents from a Long Island, New York, precocious schoolhouse are advocating that games against a rival schoolhouse territory ne'er beryllium scheduled again owed to alleged contention issues.

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"He was playing lacrosse, and successful the mediate of the game, the opposing player, aft Elmont scored, the opposing subordinate called him the flat-out the n-word and told him to get disconnected of the field," Johnson, who is Black, told The Post. 

Pizzarelli has defended the mode Section VIII and the respective districts responded to these incidents, adding that municipality halls similar these person created advancement successful resolving these issues. 

Parents beg to differ. 

"We person trusted our territory to assistance look implicit our kids, but I don’t deliberation that they have, due to the fact that they support doing things to enactment a Band-Aid to a gunshot wound," Johnson said to The Post.

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