Overview
- Superintendent Karen Zaleski said three incidents were reported over the past month in middle and high school settings, with the latest found on Nov. 4 in a high school bathroom stall.
- Earlier cases included an Oct. 16 classroom presentation of a copied swastika image by an eighth grader and an Oct. 30 drawing in dry-erase marker in a seventh-grade room.
- The district is working with the Weston Police Department and the Anti-Defamation League on active investigations, with no public findings or disciplinary outcomes announced.
- Zaleski condemned the acts, described them as seemingly unrelated, and reiterated a zero-tolerance policy for hate and discrimination in the schools.
- The district’s plan, titled Steps Forward to Combating Hate and Anti-Semitism, includes curriculum review, staff training, community engagement, and a response guide expected to enter the curriculum after winter vetting for spring rollout.