MORAGA >> A Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School student has been disciplined for posting inflammatory fliers targeting Muslims on the school campus, according to the district.
Moraga School District Superintendent Bruce Burns said school administrators and police spoke with the student’s parents about the fliers that were discovered at the school March 1. The student was disciplined for posting the material, and an “offer of support for the student and family,” was also made, said Burns, who declined to go into specifics.
Two eighth-grade students discovered the fliers on campus last Wednesday. The fliers depicted a still from the animated sitcom “Family Guy” that shows the cartoon character Porky Pig emerging from a drum emblazoned with the words “Muslim Looney Tunes,” Burns said.
The image is from a controversial episode of the sitcom that attempted to lampoon Muslim stereotypes. Critics panned the episode, and it was later pulled because it depicted a terrorist act at the Boston Marathon a month before the April 15, 2013, attack took place.
After spotting the flier, the two students pulled seven to eight copies down from bulletin boards around campus. They then notified administrators who found no additional posters.
On Friday, administrators, staff and a school psychologist visited classrooms to discuss the incident with students. They also apologized on behalf of the school and the school district “for anyone who may have felt offended or harmed in any way by the postings,” Burns said.
Administrators also praised the two eighth-graders who took down the fliers and reported them to the staff. And they “explained the right every student has to feel safe when they come to school,” Burns said.
