Hundreds of students at Tigard High School in Oregon walked out last week after a classmate made a racist TikTok video that circulated among students.  

According to NBC News, the video shows a female student sitting on a bed reciting slurs that are racist towards Black people, Muslims, Asians and Latinos as another student behind the camera encouraged her. After the video circulated around the high school, students of color and allies who stood with them walked off-campus.  

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Tigard students say racist incidents like this are not new. Sean Sorko-Ram, a 17-year-old Black student, told NBC News she was called the N-word, and some of her friends have been followed while racial slurs were used against them, but they are too afraid to come forward.  

Tigard High School principal Brian Bailey said, “What students are reporting are from their personal experiences. If we are hearing more reports of these situations, it could represent an uptick in hate speech. It may also be influenced by our collective and continued work to encourage students to speak out and report these incidents.”  

Sue Rieke-Smith, the superintendent for the school district, joined students in their walkout. She said the bar for expulsion is set high. “That list is very short and tight,” she said. “Typically, it has to do with threats of violence or repeated acts that demonstrate that the student does not want to be a member of the community.” In her experience, a student has never been expelled for hate speech that happened off-campus.  

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“It’s a horrific video. It does not represent what Tigard-Tualatin School District believes in and has been working towards,” Rieke-Smith said. “It was beyond disappointing and disgusting.”  

School groups like the Black Student Union have set up forums to discuss the video and its impacts on students as the district continues its investigation.