This is one of those WTF stories. We send our children to school trusting that the staff will protect them and keep them safe while they learn. At Charter Oak High School in Los Angles, California that wasn’t the case for several African American students. In their school yearbook they were given fake “hood” names like, Tay Tay Shaniqua and Laquan White. The picture here shows the actual yearbook as it was printed and distributed to students, staff, and parents. This is not the first instance of racism at this school, but it is definitely the most outrageous. When asked about the usage of such racist monikers, the school principal Kathleen Wiard had this to say:

“It appears that during the process of creating the yearbook, filler names were put in and not corrected at the proofreading part.”

African American students account for less than 5% of Charter Oak High’s population. “Filler names” like the ones that were used should not be acceptable. Whatever happened to John Doe and Jane Doe? No matter how much this principle tries to cover up this mistake, it is clear that there are some racial issues going on in this school, and some action should be taken.

The editors and staff of the yearbook surely saw this during their editing process and we here at Random Gossip think it “slipped through the cracks” because it was allowed to. Pictures of unknown students could have easily been labeled as “unknown.” The blatant racism here is inexcusable and shouldn’t be tolerated. The students should have to pay for the re-printing of the yearbooks and the teacher responsible for them should be fired. What do you think?

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