PIEDMONT, Calif. – Officials at Piedmont High School are working to quell a rash of anti-Semitic behavior on campus, prompting resentment from minority students who allege their complaints about racism have gone unanswered.

School leaders sent a letter to parents and held an assembly on Monday to address allegations of racist behavior towards Jewish students that included racist dance routines and taunts in the hallways, KTVU reports.

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The letter said school officials only learned of the verbal and physical taunts on April 24, though it has been ongoing for several months.

“There was a gym class where apparently some of the kids formed a dance routine in the shape of a swastika,” Temple Beth Abraham Rabbi Mark Bloom told the news site. “There have been heil Hitler salutes in the hallways.”

“I’ve been told you’ll burn like your ancestors,” Piedmont High freshman Tamir Menahemy said. “I’ve been told ‘You F’ing Jew.’”

District superintendent Randall Booker said “student participation at the assembly reflected the overall positive character and integrity that we see in our student body,” but some students viewed the effort as an insult.

Piedmont junior Casey Kama told KTVU she’s Tongan but is often mistaken as black, and racial taunts and threats are nothing new for the “colored student body.”

“I’m just wondering where our assembly is, or where our awareness is or where the adults are when we need them,” she said. “I’ve been shoved around called a ni**er multiple times. I’m not actually black, I’m Tongan.”

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“The colored student body has been going to the administration office all year and the second a white Jewish kid goes to the office and feels as though they’ve been victimized then they see it as a need to have an emergency assembly,” Kama said.

Menahemy and other Jewish students, meanwhile, are hoping the school assembly made an impact on their tormentors.

“It was powerful to me, but I don’t know how much it affected the kids who were saying the anti-Semitic” comments, Menahemy said.

Bloom told KTVU the school district educates students about the Holocaust and brings in Holocaust survivors to discuss bigotry.

KTVU’s Paul Chambers reports the situation leaves one big question unanswered.

“So the question is really, do the kids understand it, or do they just not really care?” KTVU reporter Paul Chambers questioned.