Culture Pee Dee elementary school apologizes for ‘insensitive’ social media post

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By WMBF News Staff
Published: Aug. 1, 2024 at 1:20 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
FLORENCE COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - An elementary school in Florence County is apologizing for a recent Facebook post.

Royall Elementary School said a picture it posted on Wednesday showed “an insensitive disregard for the current challenges our Hispanic population faces.”

The picture showed teachers dressing up for “Royall Cantina.” Most of the teachers were dressed in sombreros, but two of them dressed up as U.S. Border Patrol agents in front of a wall.
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Royall Elementary School in Florence apologized for this picture that was posted on its social media page, calling it insensitive.(Source: Royall Elementary School Facebook page)

The school said it is hoping to move on from the mistake and have a good school year, which started on Thursday.

“At Royall, we take great pride in our long-standing tradition of embracing and supporting every student who walks through the doors of our building,” the school’s statement reads. “Our staff is unanimously committed to celebrating the diversity of our families and ensuring that each and every student at Royall is successful, happy, and recognized for his or her unique culture and abilities.”

Meanwhile, Florence Democratic Party Chairman Isaac Wilson also issued a statement on the post, saying racism has no place in the community.

“I am appalled by the images shared by educated professionals but I am more disappointed that someone thought that this tasteless display was representative of Mexican culture,” Wilson’s statement reads. “In a time where we should be bringing communities together to solve issues that chronically challenge us like racism and bigotry, this type of tone deaf behavior cannot be tolerated.”

The school has taken the post in question down.

The school’s full statement can be viewed below:
It is with regret that we acknowledge that a picture that was posted on our Facebook page yesterday showed an insensitive disregard for the current challenges our Hispanic population faces. At Royall, we take great pride in our long-standing tradition of embracing and supporting every student who walks through the doors of our building. Our staff is unanimously committed to celebrating the diversity of our families and ensuring that each and every student at Royall is successful, happy, and recognized for his or her unique culture and abilities. We apologize for our insensitivity but look forward to fostering relationships as we begin a new school year.
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I'm a bit racist myself, so I appreciate the spirit, but this is a bit too on-the-nose.
 
FierceBrosnan said:
NGL that's actually kind of funny. God people are such humorless faggots these days.
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While that is indeed true I feel the "problem" in this instance is that your archetypical "look how progressively inclusive we are guiz!" schoolboard rodents are so hilariously clueless and ignorant that when tasked with creating low effort "we totally love spics n shit" xitter fodder their first and only idea was a display indicating how latinxex are shiftless illegally immigrating wetbacks who all live in fear of ICE showing up to kick them back over the wall, which while accurate and hilarious is *decidedly* a no-no fact, which is made all the more awkward to navigate given how theres been a solid 8 years of "BORDER PATROL ARE LITERALLY DEATH CAMP GUARDS FORCING INNOCENT MEXICANS INTO THE LITERAL GAS CHAMBERof being forced to go through the legal immigration procedure" narrative screeching from news media and pop culture which has only recently seen something of a U-Turn given how unpopular illegal immigration has proven when border states began shipping said illegals to blue states
 
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