Parents from a Long Island, New York, go to high school that games against a rival school district never have to be planned again due to alleged race problems.
Elmont High School’s Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) as well as the school’s father’s club held a town hall with Nassau County Sports Section VIII officials to discuss what parents call a “long history of racist behavior” from Bellmore-Merrick School District, according to the New York Post.
Present at City Hall were also representatives of the Sewanhaka School District, which Elmont High School is under, and the Bellmore-Merrick district.
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A Girls Varsity Basketball Camp on February 7 between Elmont High School and Kennedy High School was the rocker. (Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Lynette Battle, who serves in the Sewanhaka Board of Trustees, while also the former president of PTSA, called the situation “the definition of insanity” that claims it is a recurring situation.
“Something else needs to be done,” Battle added. “And someone has to be brave enough to stand on business.”
The racial events that allegedly span years, but one in particular caused a major stirring that led to the meeting. It was a girls Varsity Basketball Camp on February 7 between Elmont and Kennedy High School, which is in the Bellmore-Merrick School District, it was the rocker.
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During the game, a switch appeared between a player from each side, where only the player from Elmont, as The Post reported, is black, was thrown out after swinging on the girl from Kennedy, who is white.
When the first video came out, showing the player from Kennedy, who hit the player from Elmont first, appealed the latter suspension. Although Section VIII initially maintained their decision to suspend the player, she was reinstated and allowed to attend an playoffs after another appeal.
Although Bellmore-Merrick made the decision to voluntarily suspend the Kennedy player involved in the quarrel, parents from Elmont have clearly seen enough to ask to never see schools from their rival district, including middle schools, on their athletic schedules.
During the meeting, Battle Years’ value of alleged racial events between the school districts, including a Junior Varsity Volleyball match between Elmont and Kennedy High Schools, when fans allegedly spotted Elmont players, called them “monkeys” and had bananas in their possession, told the post.
A similar situation took place in December 2021 when fans of Bellmore-Merrick Mepham High School allegedly called girls “monkeys” during a Junior Varsity Basketball Game. Bananas are also said to be involved.
A similar situation took place in December 2021 when fans of Bellmore-Merrick Mepham High School allegedly called girls “monkeys” during a Junior Varsity Basketball Game. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
With the last incident, the fans were both disciplined when Bellmore-Merrick superintendent and athletic instructor apologized Elmont in person at their high school, section VIII director Patrick Pizzarelli told The Post.
Battle also detailed an incident in February 2019 when Elmont Cheerleaders allegedly threw racial slurves against spectators supporting Bellmore-Merrick. She also claims that one of the cheerleaders wore an “Afro-Wig to mock on the black players.”
Battle added several events in 2022 and 2023, which was allegedly charged in terms of racially. However, they were never reported to the necessary sports grasses in the districts.
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In response, Sections VIII and the Districts have held workshops for students on the teams involved, while they also “introduced the reading of a declaration of civility before games,” the post reports.
“Our children are the ones who become a victim,” fighting battle. “Why should they be in the room at a Kumbaya moment?”
The post also interviewed Jon Johnson from Dad’s Club, and although his three children may no longer be in the Sewanhaka school system, they made all candidates from Elmont High School and allegedly treated similar racial events.
Johnson detailed someone who involved his “Middle Son” who played against Wellington C. Mepham High School-a other in the Bellmore-Merrick district.
Parents from a Long Island, New York, go to high school that games against a rival school district never have to be planned again due to alleged race problems.
“He played Lacrosse, and in the middle of the game, the opposite player, after Elmont scored, called the opposite player him to the N-word and asked him to get rid of the field,” Johnson, who is black, told The Post.
Pizzarelli has defended the way section VIII and the respective districts responded to these events, adding that town halls like these have made progress in solving these issues.
Parents ask to be different.
“We trust our district to help look over our children, but I don’t think they have it because they continue to do things to put a band aid into a gunshot,” Johnson told the post.
