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Lincoln-Way board votes to allow students involved in racist incident to withdraw instead of being expelled

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The Lincoln-Way School District Board of Education voted unanimously to allow the students involved in the racial harassment incident during the football game at Homewood-Flossmoor on Sept. 4 to withdraw voluntarily from Lincoln-Way East rather than be expelled. “This investigation, which involved interviewing numerous students, reviewing multiple video recordings and angles, and speaking with their attorneys, took the administration only eight school days and ultimately resulted in the administration recommending expulsion for the students determined to have been involved,” Supt. Scott Tingley said at the school board meeting on Thursday. “The parents of those students have chosen, however, to voluntarily withdraw their children from Lincoln-Way East High School and forfeit all student privileges rather than proceed with the expulsion process.” The Lincoln-Way East students were caught on video racially taunting H-F students at a football game in Flossmoor by mimicking monkeys. The sc