A middle school student in Arlington, Mass. accused other students of sending racist text messages, but police found the 6th grader lied, promoting victimhood culture.
Ottoson Middle School has been a hotbed of racial tension recently. In March and April, there were three cases of anti-semitic graffiti in the school bathrooms, and in July, a 12-year-old student accused a classmate of sending text messages full of racial epithets, Arlington Patch reported.
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Administrators immediately turned to the police, but the investigation came up empty-handed and investigators came to the conclusion that the racist text messages were fabricated.
The student claimed to have created a narrative and fabricated the entire incident, smearing the accused classmate’s reputation. Thankfully, because of privacy laws, school officials refused to release the name of the young girl blamed for the texts.
“The allegation of racist texts being sent from one middle school student to another was concerning and hurtful to the entire community and I am disappointed that a student would falsify a report of this nature,” Superintendent Kathleen Bodie said in a press release. “Thank you to the Arlington Police Department for its full and thorough investigation.”
School officials said the child claiming to be a victim of racism will be punished accordingly.
