KINGSTON, Jamaica — Calabar High School Board Chairman, Reverend Karl Johnson, has indicated that the teachers, seen in a video showing students hurling vulgar and potentially incendiary chants at Kingston College (KC), were not party to the unfortunate utterances.

“In fact the acting principal, who was also present, took immediate action and stopped the offensive chant once he became aware of the content,” Johnson said in a statement this afternoon.

He was responding to mounting backlash from the public over the incident.

The video shows boys in khaki uniform wearing Calabar epaulettes chanting vulgar slurs about KC which, on Saturday, ended Calabar’s seven-year reign of the annual ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ Championship at the National Stadium in St Andrew.

Both schools are to have a joint devotion tomorrow as part of efforts by Calabar administrators to repair damage done to the school by the students who were captured in the video.

The arrangement for the devotion was reached at a meeting today between Ministry of Education officials and the administrators of Calabar after the video, which was apparently made during devotion yesterday morning, went viral overnight.

The board of the school has since launched an investigation into the matter and has committed to providing the report to the ministry by Friday.