‘It was shocking’: Video shows St. Johns County students yelling anti-gay slurs at classmates

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ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – A troubling bid of videos posted to societal media this week appears to amusement a radical of students hurling hatred code astatine different students astatine a St. Johns County precocious school.

Students tin beryllium heard utilizing homophobic slurs and different foul connection successful the videos.

Parents told News4Jax it happened Friday astatine Bartram Trail High School and demanded the schoolhouse code what happened.

“Two genders, f****t! There are 2 genders, f****t!” students tin beryllium heard yelling.

Cell telephone footage of the incidental was sent to News4Jax aft it circulated connected Snapchat and different societal media sites.

Witnesses said a radical of boys astatine Bartram Trail High School gathered Friday to rally against the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance Club.

A genitor of a pupil there, who asked to stay anonymous to debar backlash, called the videos chilling and said she besides saw students stomping connected a rainbow flag, a awesome of LGBTQ pride.

“It was shocking. It was scary,” the genitor said Sunday. “It made maine wonderment what could perchance hap astatine this schoolhouse to enactment students successful danger. And it was benignant of akin to videos you would spot successful the aboriginal 1960s during the civilian rights movement.”

Nancy Tray besides has a pupil astatine Bartram Trail and said watching the video made her emotional.

“It was shocking and horrifying,” Tray said. “And I just, it was precise emotional. It made maine highly sad. It makes you question arsenic a genitor your beingness choices, if this is the close schoolhouse for your kid.”

None of the parents reported immoderate unit oregon immoderate injuries but did accidental they turned the videos implicit to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

The bureau told 1 of the parents that the substance was being referred to a sergeant successful the younker resources division.

“I was precise frightened to spot that benignant of hate,” 1 genitor said. “To me, that’s lone however this could beryllium described, arsenic a hatred transgression happening connected the field wherever my kid is astatine school.”

“I deliberation it’s intolerable to larn successful an situation where, astatine a precise minimum, you don’t consciousness safe. Our students request to consciousness harmless successful bid to get the acquisition that they need,” Tray said. “I deliberation that we request to person nary tolerance for this benignant of behavior.”

A spokesperson for the St. Johns County School District told News4Jax it is looking into the matter.

The territory does person an existing argumentation connected bullying, which tin beryllium viewed here.