Oklahoma school district responds after video shows students licking toes for fundraiser

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A school district in Oklahoma is doing damage control after a video sent to KOKH showed young students licking other people's toes in a fundraising event.

by ALEXANDRA SHARFMAN and DAVID CHASANOV | KOKH StaffFILE - This undated image shows the Deer Creek School District building near Edmond, Oklahoma. as part of a fundraising event.

The controversial moment came as part of the school's 'Wonderful Week of Fundraising,' which was dedicated to raising money for. The local business employs people with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities. Whenever she told me yesterday that was happening, I had to ask her, 'Wait, what? They're licking peanut butter off of toes," an anonymous parent said. "What?

The Deer Creek School District released a statement Friday night, after the video began circulating, that aimed to establish the context of the event and discuss some of the details of the week's programming. The district stressed that the students signed up for events ahead of time and that no official staff or teachers had a role in the Thursday afternoon activity during which the licking occured.

 

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