Foothill Principal Apologizes for #CHUNTI Sign Held During Basketball Game

*So this begs the obvious question, given the assault on expression in Paris. Does this qualify as freedom of expression? It’s clearly wrong, and insulting. VL

By Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly

On Wednesday, the visiting eighth-ranked Tustin High Tillers beat their longtime rivals, third-ranked Foothill High Knights, in a boy’s basketball game that the Orange County Register described as an “emotion-filled night.”

That’s putting it lightly.

Before and during the game, Foothill High students subjected their crosstown peers to a barrage of racist and classist trash-talk, from taunting a player on the Tustin squad who had once played for Foothill to sending tweets mocking the working-class background of the Tustin High student body by saying they’d never go to college and that they wanted onions on their McDonald’s order. That’s really not news: the two schools have a bitter crosstown rivalry exacerbated by their respective position in city society–Tustin High is the working-class, older school, while Foothill High is the fancy one in the imaginary city of NorthTustin (the school is technically in SanTana, but don’t dare tell that to alumni unless you want to hear an earful of gibberish).

But the kicker on Wednesday was the Foothill High student shown above who held up a sign with a word that will no doubt enter the annals of OC prep-sports trash-talk from now until eternity: chunti.

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