Students at posh Brooklyn prep school caught in blackface video

Administrators at Brooklyn’s posh Poly Prep Country Day School are scrambling to address a troubling video of two students prancing about in blackface, sources told The Post.

Nearly 400 students held a sit-in at the Dyker Heights school Friday afternoon to protest what they said was a passive response from school brass.

A portion of the video obtained by The Post depicts two girls appearing to mimic monkeys with blackened faces inside a home.

Sources said the video was taken sometime prior to this academic year when the three participants were still in Poly Prep’s junior high school.

One of the three girls left the school prior to this year and her departure was not related to the video, sources said. Two of the girls involved are currently freshmen at Poly Prep.

An academic and athletic powerhouse that counts former Knick Joakim Noah and Jon Bon Jovi’s son as grads, Poly Prep costs upwards of $50,000 a year and send kids to top colleges around the country.

The video had long been circulating among freshmen but filtered up to angry juniors and seniors last week, sources said.

Panicked administrators told students to immediately delete the offensive clip and warned them not to disseminate it – but failed to take any other meaningful action, students told The Post.

“It seemed like they were more concerned and angry about people sharing the video than they were about the contents,” said senior Talisha Ward.

Poly Prep headmaster Audrius Barzdukas sent out an email addressing the matter last week but neglected to specifically call the video racist, students said.

Members of a group for students of color led a sit-in at the school on Friday — and were heartened to be joined by so many classmates.

“As one of the organizers, that was the most encouraging part of this whole week,” said Ward, who will attend Kenyon College next year to study public policy. “Just to see the number of people there.”

Ward wants the remaining two students involved in the video to issue an apology before the entire school.

“I want the girls to read their apology and own up to their actions,” she said. “Maybe then we can heal and just reflect on how we can do better.”

Barzdukas talked to Ward after the sit-in and committed to addressing the incident and other race-related concerns in the coming weeks.

“I promise that we will do everything possible to make positive change going forward, and I invite you all to hold us accountable,” he wrote in a letter to the school community Friday.

Poly Prep has grappled with a series of unseemly scandals in recent years.

The school was forced to fire its entire lacrosse coaching staff in 2017 after team members snuck out of a hotel on a trip to Orlando in 2017 and threw booze-soaked parties.

And a 2015 lawsuit alleged that a former school official took students on a “rite of passage” trip to Cuba in 2012 where they indulged in booze, prostitutes, and cigars.

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