Amity ups security, calls in ADL to stem fear of anti-Semitic climate
WOODBRIDGE — Security was beefed up inside and outside of Amity High School Tuesday and the Anti-Defamation League was on campus to create an action plan for education against hate, following a powerful meeting before the school board Monday night in which weeping students expressed “horrifying fear” of an anti-Semitic climate at the school.
Meanwhile, a swastika was discovered drawn on a desk, but school officials aren’t sure whether it’s new or just newly discovered through stepped-up vigilance.
“It’s not a measure of the community that incidents like this happen,” said ADL Connecticut office Associate Director Andy Friedland, because it can happen anywhere. “The measure is how does the community respond?”
Amity officials went full throttle to diffuse the tensions Tuesday and address the problem of any kind of hate — anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia — as a long-term problem.
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