A group of 8th grade students at Southwick Regional School are facing criminal charges for a conversation that allegedly included threats of violence and racist language.
There is no question that the alleged behavior in this case of these six juveniles is vile, cruel, and contemptible. Seeing it, and facing the reality that these thoughts, that this ugliness, can exist within middle school students, here in this community, in 2024, is discouraging, unsettling, and deeply frustrating,
The conversation in question occurred on Snapchat late on the evening of Feb. 8 and into the early morning hours of Feb. 9. It was created by 8th grade students from Southwick and it included multiple juveniles, some of whom came and went during the course of the chat. Several of those involved used slurs, spewed hateful and racist comments, shared derogatory pictures and videos, talked about violence towards people of color,
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