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Charles City Community School District is taking into consideration a new athletic conference after a Charles City High School student athlete endured racist taunts during a sports game. 

The district has put together a task force to help take steps in the right direction, away from racism, KIMT reported. 

"We just were not satisfied with any of the answers. All of the answers we were given were lip service, just hoping that we would quite honestly maybe let the issue go away," Superintendent Mike Fisher told KIMT. 

The task force is what recommended the athletic conference in hopes that other schools will join. 

"Most of the NEIC current schools would likely join the new conference and then we would also pick up any other schools as well. So it would be a conference with more equity and it would have more parity," Fisher told KIMT. 

Students, such as Cole White, believe the conference will help provide a safer environment for student athletes. He'll be graduating before the conference would take effect, but he said it would be a good idea. 

"I know it won't affect me, I would still like to think I helped change the culture. I helped make Charles City more comfortable and have ourselves a better conference and a safer conference," White told KIMT.