Campbell High Schoolers Call For More Discipline Against Racist Remarks: Reports

COBB COUNTY, GA — Dozens of Campbell High School students silently protested at a Cobb school board meeting on Thursday, calling for a more strict approach to disciplining students who make racist remarks, multiple news outlets reported.

A pair of students at CHS posted a series of racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks to social media earlier this month, CHS student Kezia Kennedy told the Marietta Daily Journal. The comments sparked the students to look into the code of conduct for such remarks.

The students called for the district to modify two sections of its code of conduct, the Cobb County Courier reported.

As it exists, students who make "any type of profane, vulgar, obscene or offensive language ... or gesture" face a maximum punishment of 10 days of out-of-school suspension. The students said they want to see that 10-day suspension as the minimum standard.

Additionally, the group said they wanted students included in the existing language about district personnel or other adults on school property under the disrespectful conduct section, the Courier reported.

Board members didn't address the students' comments during the meeting, the MDJ reported. Afterward, Board Chair David Chastain told the news outlet that he wasn't familiar with the incidents the students referenced in their comments.

However, Campbell senior and student body president Radiya Ajibade told the Courier she hopes the board will listen to the students.

"But if they don't, well, we're more than happy to come back," Adjibade said to the news outlet. "And we'll keep coming back."