Racist graffiti shocks primary school students

MARK STORY
St Joseph's Primary has become the most recent graffiti victim in what's been a bad month for Hawke's Bay schools.
Staff arrived at the Hastings school yesterday to discover one classroom extensively "tagged" with obscene language.
"The children were really upset," said principal Tim Mooney, who explained the situation was worsened by the strong racist undertone and offensive nature of the graffiti. "It was pretty hurtful stuff - so we were keen to clean it off as soon as we could."
Mr Mooney said the school hadn't been targeted for some time, and believed offenders had gone to some length considering the "locked down" nature of the school at night. "It's random stuff really. You can never pick when it'll happen again. We've had an okay run up until now."
Earlier this month Havelock North Primary School had 31 windows smashed.