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ETHS board presses for accountability after racial slur at Loyola game
Summary
Board members opened the March 9 meeting to condemn a racial slur shouted at an ETHS athlete at a February game at Loyola Academy, criticized an apology as insufficient, and urged the Central Suburban League and Loyola to follow up with training and investigations including an allegation about an opposing coach, while promising to watch for concrete accountability.
The Evanston Township High School Board opened its March 9 meeting by centering a recent incident at a Loyola Academy basketball game in which an ETHS player was targeted by a racial slur.
The board president said the district appreciated the referee’s action to remove the individual who made the comment but called Loyola’s subsequent apology “insufficient,” and urged follow-through beyond apology into demonstrable accountability and training by the Central Suburban League.
“Students, our students and our staff deserve to be treated well…they don’t need to be in a space where they’re going to experience racial slurs or verbal assaults,” the board president said,…
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