There has been almost no public comment from officials or school board members in District 428 about the racial bullying incident on a district bus in January.

What they have said with their discipline speaks volumes, however. The hope is that they will also take steps to ensure that the circumstances that allowed this to happen are not repeated in the future.

In January, a DeKalb High School student was attacked by a teammate with a belt and taunted with racial slurs while riding on a bus returning from a wrestling meet.