Georgia school: Students planned slur at band show as joke
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The principal of a Georgia high school where members of a marching band spelled out a racist slur with their instrument covers during a halftime show says the four students planned it as a "joke."
WSB-TV reports that Principal Bo Ford of Brookwood High School says in a letter to parents that three seniors planned the stunt. A fourth student went along at the last minute.
Ford says two of the students are African-American, one is Asian and one is Hispanic. He says they knew the slur was "not acceptable."
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The students will be disciplined.
Normally the band uses the instrument covers to spell out the mascot Broncos. But last Friday the four students instead spelled a slur insulting black people. Ford apologized Saturday in a letter to parents and the community.