KIMBERLY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The Kimberly High School administration is launching an investigation into a post made on social media. The post had sexist and racist undertones.
The account has since been deleted, but it had already made its way throughout the community.
“It makes me feel so angry that there is this kind of people going to school with me,” Kimberly HS student Lily Midtvedt said.
The post, posted by a user called the ‘KHS White Club,’ enraged a lot of students.
“I don’t know who had the right mind in thinking they should do that,” Kimberly HS student Isaac Linder said. “They must have some issues or something!”
Linder’s sister Meggan Linder, also a Kimberly High student tells FOX 11….
“That’s so messed up! Why would someone say that? It just made us both mad, because it’s not right.”
Using the school’s logo, the account called for students to meet on Wednesday for the first “White Club” meeting.
“In no way, shape or form does this represent, nor would we ever sponsor anything even remotely like this as a high school,” Kimberly High School principal Jackie DePeau said.
It’s worth noting, it’s unknown at this time whether it was a student who posted it.
“It’s our task to figure out what is going on, where is this coming from and how do we get better,” said DePeau. “It’s still an ongoing investigation, trying to identify the source, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disheartened.”
The message didn’t end there. It went onto to say, “all genders are allowed to attend, preferably not women, though.”
“Omg! That part made me so mad!” Midtvedt said.
Meggan Linder felt the same.
“The audacity of people sometimes. They think that it’s okay to disregard women like that, it’s not okay.”
School officials say, that post doesn’t represent what Kimberly High School stands for, or how its students behave.
But some tell FOX 11 they don’t think that’s necessarily true.
“I do believe that there is racist people here, but they’re really good at hiding it.,” Isaac Linder said. “You could be sitting next to someone and like know them very well, but they could be saying the ‘N’ word behind everyone’s back.”
Others don’t see it that way.
“I don’t feel like anybody else,” KHS student Andrew Gralapp said. “I haven’t seen any segregation here.”
“I can’t believe people would do that here,” Midtvedt said.
The Fox Valley Metro Police Department is also involved in the investigation. Anyone with information on who created the account is urged to contact them.
