It could have happened.
Via Baltimore Sun:
The Anne Arundel County NAACP charged Tuesday that African-American students suffer daily abuse and humiliation at Chesapeake High School in Pasadena.
NAACP President Rev. Stephen Tillett said during a news conference called to discuss the complaint that students at the school regularly use racist language, labeling it a symptom of longstanding racism in the community.
Joined by families of students at the school, he cited a recent social media threat that targeted black students at the school with violence and a complaint against a former teacher who used a racial slur to attack a student.
“In Chesapeake High School and its feeder schools we have seen a decades-long pattern of resistance to change and the creation of a hostile environment for children of color,” Tillett said.
“It makes students feel unwelcome and unsafe. It makes parents fear for their children,” he said. “And it is the shame of the Anne Arundel County Public School administration that continues to assert that these many incidents are ‘isolated’ incidents.”
Bob Mosier, the spokesman for county schools, said the school system is eager to work with anyone to rid the system of intimidation and behavior described by Tillett. Issues that begin in communities spill over into schools sometimes, he said.
“We have things foisted upon us when hundreds or thousands of students cross paths every single day,” Mosier said. “Certainly, we’re working hard at it, not just at Chesapeake High School but at every school.”
The news conference followed a threatening post made Feb. 26 against the school specifically targeting black students.
Lt. Ryan Frashure, Anne Arundel County police spokesman, said investigators have identified the student who posted that threat — an African-American student who was charged as a juvenile with disrupting school activities.
That the threat was made by an African-American student doesn’t cancel out the other challenges the school has had historically, Tillett said.