Elmbrook Task Force Member's Vulgar Remark Caught On Zoom

Brookfield WI

30 July, 2020

2:44 PM

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BROOKFIELD, WI — A vulgar remark caught on a hot mic during a Zoom meeting led to the removal of a member on the Elmbrook School Reopening Task Force. "It's amazing how teachers have become such [expletives] in the last two weeks," the task force member said, according to an unedited recording of the meeting sent to Patch. TMJ-4 News identified the member as Shannon Blunt, a parent on the Elmbrook School District task force. The School Reopening Task Force meeting was conducted on Zoom in a hybrid format with an equal amount of members participating online via Zoom and in-person in a classroom at Brookfield Central. "A vulgar term was used to describe teachers by a task force member who was participating online on an unmuted microphone while another task force member was speaking," Mark Hansen, Superintendent of the Elmbrook School District, said in an email to staff. Hansen apologized for not addressing the comment directly during the live broadcast and condemned the vulgar language used. Hansen said he had a conversation with the task force member to express his disappointment. "I also notified her that we would be removing her from the Task Force for violating our code of conduct expectations," he said. The comment was removed from the YouTube video of the meeting before being republished. The unedited version was sent to Patch staff.