SPRINGBORO — Springboro Schools are dealing with the aftermath of two high school students who posted comments on social media supporting sexual assault over the weekend.
In the post, two male Springboro High School students were photographed in a school bathroom with the caption, “just a couple men tryna turn that 97% into 100%.” One of the young men in the photo had posed with his hand down his pants.
The caption was in reference to a recent British study that found that 97 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 24 had been sexually assaulted in some way.
Administrators were alerted by another student of the post that had appeared on the popular app, Snapchat. While the app is designed so that messages disappear on their own, one student saved the post before that could happen.
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Scott Marshall, Springboro School District’s Communication Coordinator, commended the student who alerted administrators of the post and called the comment “distasteful, disrespectful and disgusting.”
“A student sees something, they say something,” Marshall said. “That’s what we preach and in this case, it worked.
Marshall said the school has been treating the incident “very seriously.”
“Students were talked with, parents were spoken with and it’s treated very, very seriously,” Marshall said.
Officials told News Center 7 that both students and their parents have been spoken with and that this issue is being dealt with.
Springboro Schools said that they have no tolerance for speech or online post that involve racial discrimination, sexual harassment or bullying. This is an example of the importance of education being an on-going process and this lesson is one they want to drive home to students.
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