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Colleyville (WBAP/KLIF News) – The principal of Colleyville Heritage High School has apologized for students who brought a banner with a border wall-theme to a pep rally before Friday night’s football game against Trinity High School
The banner was drawn to look like a wall with the phrase, “Paid for by Trinity” written on it. According to the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District, Colleyville Heritage is 58 percent white. The Dallas Morning News reports Trinity was 36 percent white in the 2014-2015 school year.
“On behalf of everyone here, I’m sorry,” Colleyville Heritage Principal Lance Groppel writes in a statement. “We made a mistake, and we have to learn from it going forward.”
Groppel says he called the principal at Trinity to apologize Monday morning. He says students at Colleyville Heritage have also written an open letter to Trinity to apologize, asking them to meet in person.
“This is a learning opportunity for our campus,” Groppel writes. “We are hopeful that the students will be able to learn more about one another, and it will lead to understanding, healing and, ultimately, forgiveness.”
The district says banners and signs for pep rallies will now need administrators’ approval before they can be displayed.
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