Arrests made in UV noose incident
NEW BERLIN – Two 16-year-old Unadilla Valley High School students have been arrested in connection with the placing of a noose outside an African-American teacher’s door. The incident occurred Feb. 6 at the high school.
The two students, whose names were kept confidental because of their age, were arrested on charges of second degree harassment and disorderly conduct. The incident involved a homemade noose being hung from the door knob of the Liberty Partnership classroom where the only African American counselor in the high school, Mark Montgomery, works.
The arrests, as reported by Norwich State Police Investigator Jason Bessett, were a result of a joint investigation conducted by Unadilla Valley administration, the school resource officer, Chenango County Sheriff’s Department and the State Police in Norwich.
The students are scheduled to appear in the Town of New Berlin Court at 6 p.m. Wednesday to answer to the charges.
Following the incident, Superintendent Robert Mackey said, “Now it is time to communicate a plan of recovery for our students, staff and community.”
He said he plans to take an educational approach to the incident and will plan an assembly for the school after the winter recess this week.
Mackey said the counselors and administrators have met in order to lay the foundation for a plan to address the long-term educational needs the district faces, “in the areas of promoting tolerance, preventing bullying, and preventing violence.”
The two students, whose names were kept confidental because of their age, were arrested on charges of second degree harassment and disorderly conduct. The incident involved a homemade noose being hung from the door knob of the Liberty Partnership classroom where the only African American counselor in the high school, Mark Montgomery, works.
The arrests, as reported by Norwich State Police Investigator Jason Bessett, were a result of a joint investigation conducted by Unadilla Valley administration, the school resource officer, Chenango County Sheriff’s Department and the State Police in Norwich.
The students are scheduled to appear in the Town of New Berlin Court at 6 p.m. Wednesday to answer to the charges.
Following the incident, Superintendent Robert Mackey said, “Now it is time to communicate a plan of recovery for our students, staff and community.”
He said he plans to take an educational approach to the incident and will plan an assembly for the school after the winter recess this week.
Mackey said the counselors and administrators have met in order to lay the foundation for a plan to address the long-term educational needs the district faces, “in the areas of promoting tolerance, preventing bullying, and preventing violence.”
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