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A top grammar school has been praised for contacting police after some of its pupils were caught up in an internet chat where racist comments were posted.
Royal School Dungannon revealed it had taken the step after being made aware of the online discussion involving a large number of people, some of whom attend RSD, and which contained racist comments which the school condemns in every regard .
It is understood other young people from different schools had participated in the online chat, which took place last Friday.
The school said it condemned racism in all its forms and took any report of racist activity seriously.
Doubt over transfer test as more grammar schools pull out 11 plus Transfer test. Story Simon Doyle. 09 January, 2021 01:00
GRAMMAR schools are withdrawing in growing numbers from a planned transfer test next month - casting doubt that it will take place at all.
As executive ministers argued yesterday about staging entrance assessments, several more schools revealed they were pulling out.
The Association for Quality Education (AQE) intends to hold a single exam for P7s on February 27.
The first of its three postponed papers was due to be taken today by more than 8,000 children.
Amid demands to call off all tests on health grounds, the executive discussed the issue yesterday but broke up without agreement.
The row over transfer tests for primary 7 pupils is no closer to being settled after heated exchanges at the NI Executive.
The Education Minster faced further calls to cancel the process completely, with a single test, run by AQE, scheduled to go ahead on February 27.
But the decision looks like it is slowly being taken out of the hands of AQE and the minister with five schools already abandoning the test.
DUP leader Arlene Foster denied blocking a call to put the issue to a vote and it was agreed at the Executive meeting that Peter Weir will now present a paper on the issue at the end of next week.