Southwick schools face civil rights complaint, additional racist graffiti

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SOUTHWICK — Only two days after the mother of a Black student who allegedly endured racist taunts at Southwick Regional School requested an investigation into how the district handled the allegations, a racial epithet was found scrawled on a wall in the school’s bathroom.

In an email sent from School Superintendent Jennifer Willard on May 2 to several students’ parents, she wrote there was an “incident” in a bathroom “including discriminatory language.”

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