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The first note came Friday. In pencil: "You are a terrorist".
At a press conference Wednesday, the District Superintendent of Framingham, Robert Tremblay, said that neither the grade five student who received the grades nor the other students in the school would would be in imminent danger. "Safety is our priority," he said.
In addition to the police investigation, the school district is conducting a separate internal investigation, Tremblay said.
The girl's family has asked that her name not be published to preserve her privacy.
After the fifth grade student gave the first grade to her teacher on Friday, the school did not immediately involve the police, hoping that a student would show up, according to director Elizabeth Simon.
The school sent an email to parents asking for information about the incident, but when the second note was released Tuesday, the police were involved.
The targeted girl is still going to school every day, said her uncle, Jamaal Siddiqui.
"All she said, is that she wants to be as normal as she can, she does not want to be treated differently," Siddiqui said.
The family has been in the Framingham community for decades, and he and his family have all attended schools in the Framingham School District, Siddiqui said.
"I have experienced racism." My wife has experienced racism. "As adults, we know how to deal with it," Siddiqui said.
"But for our niece, she does not know why she is targeted."
Simon said that it was the first discriminatory incident in the school. "We have not had anything so targeted, hate message … My staff is devastated."
Tremblay said on Wednesday that a bigger conversation about hate should take place around the state.
"It's a ubiquitous problem [that] we must take a stand and speak, "he said.
"When you think of a child in fifth grade," said Tremblay. "That kind of hate, you know, where it comes from? It's not an innate feeling that a child would have. And the concern we have is, how is that? a learning opportunity for our classes? "
In order to bring the students together, all grade five students have written good grades to the student victim and the school is in talks with each class to organize the events, said the school's leaders. school.
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