A Clark County School is apologizing to the local newspaper Monday after banning one of its reporters at the Homecoming game.The Winchester Sun says the Principal at George Roger's Clark High School would not allow a reporter in the press box because he didn't like an article the newspaper ran that day.
That story was about four white students, at George Roger's Clark, who gave a black student a racially charged note, according to Ronda Hopewell, the mother of the student who received the note. The note depicts a white person whipping a black person, it also shows a noose and includes racial statements like "the south will rise again." The banned journalist says reporting the news is their job and the action Principal Gordon Parido took was shocking.
"I get a phone call saying, you're banned from the press box tonight and I said you're kidding right? He said no Mr. Parido doesn't want you to be in the press box," [sports editor Keith] Taylor explained.
"I said why? and I was told well the story in the paper, he didn't like it very well," Taylor said.
Since banning the reporter the paper says Parido has called to apologize. While relations seem to be smooth again between the school and the newspaper, Hopewell says she is still dissatisfied with the school district's response to the incident.
This from WTVQ.
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