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The Clark County School District is apologizing after a banner at a high school football game may have offended some spectators.

While playing the Madison Central Indians on Friday, the George Rogers Clark Cardinals ran through a banner containing the words "The trail of tears starts here."

Cara Coppola has a daughter at GRC High School and she was disturbed by the words on the banner.

"A huge banner mocking the Trail of Tears is just too far. It's like mocking the Nazi concentration camps. It's like mocking lynching. It's not okay," says Coppola

Coppola also referenced a poster that had a disturbing image. "Drawings of student's brandishing bloody tomahawks with the words 'Scalp the Indians,' said Coppola.

The posters, along with images of Moccasins, were scattered along school walls the week before the game.

The school says the hateful words were never meant to hurt.

"Some actions may have seemed insensitive and we did not mean to be insensitive or to make lightly of the Native American heritage," says David Bolen.

Bolen says that the images were not approved before the game because the school had never experienced any sort of problem with student posters. From now on the district says posters must be approved. Today they apologized to their students and to Madison Central.

The school is also planning to educate their students more about the Trail of Tears. This is exactly what Cara Coppola hoped the outcome would be.

"I hope it all leads to better education and this never happening again," says Coppola.

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