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Mount Clemens Community Schools officials say they are “deeply shocked, disappointed, and disgusted” by video clips of raunchy behavior that took place in their high school gym over the weekend.
School officials say they received a deluge of phone calls from people complaining about one act in particular in Saturday’s showcase of performers that was captured on videotape and shared by numerous people.
“Did I get phone calls from parents? Is the sky cloudy when it rains,” Earl Rickman III, president of the Board of Education, said Monday. “I got many, many inquiries to the effect of ‘how did this happen?’ My phone has not stopped ringing since 4:20 Sunday morning.”
The clip shows a shirtless young man rapping and performing a simulated sex act on a scantly-clad woman as she twerks on the Battling Bathers circle at midfloor on the basketball court. A group of adults is shown watching the performance.
The rapper appears to have a white cloth hanging from his jeans zipper as if to imitate a penis.
Superintendent Monique Beels responded to the video Sunday after the clip was viewed on social media. She said the entire matter is under investigation.