CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Officials at Oak Park and River Forest High School are investigating a series of “Zoom bombings," in which unauthorized entry was made to virtual classrooms and offensive comments were made.
The school has an online tutorial explaining how to prevent these kind of things.
"You have control over that door as people attempt to come in," the video states. "Only authenticated users can join."
Nevertheless, on two different days, someone managed to get into four virtual classrooms last week and made racist and anti-Semitic comments, according to the Tribune.
Approximately 95 students were affected, and officials said follow-up action was “immediate.”
“Racial incident reporting forms were submitted to the office of equity, and the deans and educational technology began fact-finding to try to determine who was responsible for the incidents,” the school said in a statement. “The perpetrators have not yet been identified, but if they turn out to be OPRF students, appropriate disciplinary consequences will be issued.”
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Incidents like this have occurred numerous times involving other schools. In one incident it was determined that a student shared log-in information for remote learning sessions, which resulted in people disrupting class sessions with profanity and racial slurs.
Security measures in the Zoom settings cannot prevent that.
This comes as the Oak Park River Forest School District and the community are as engaged in discussions about racism.