Parents in the Carmel Central School District got a look Thursday at the offensive videos officials said Carmel High School teens posted online.

They said not only are the videos appalling, but they also revealed a scary threat parents did not know about until now -- and they say that's a big problem.

In one of the videos, George Fischer Middle School's principal can be seen welcoming students, but it's not really him: Students used technology to impersonate him. This video then spirals into uses of the "N" word and other slurs for Black and Hispanic people.

"I literally broke down in tears," said mother Abigail Santana. She has lived in the district nearly 30 years. "Growing up as a minority, I was called the 'N' word."

She said the hatred she experienced has not changed, despite what she has heard from neighbors in previous News 12 reports.

"Maybe to them, that's not happening, but to the Black and brown and Asian community, it's happening. It has never stopped," Santana said. She now questions how the school district and Putnam County Sheriff officials are responding

When News 12 first reported about the videos, the district sent a statement, but it did not inform parents about the threats they said they learned as they watched the videos for the first time.

"Saying things like, 'I'm going to bring a machine gun and kill all those Black kids,' no one's talking about that," Santana said. She wants to know why the district did not say anything.

Some parents said they would not have sent their kids to school had they known.

"Our kids went to school for two weeks. Two weeks," Santana added.

She said the district finally held the first of two meetings on Wednesday that she had to fight for.

"I think they don't know what to do and that's a problem," Santana said.

She also still cannot figure out why the students cannot be charged with a crime nor why they cannot be expelled. She said the district will not say how they are being punished, but she thinks they should be expelled.

"They should not be able to step foot on these premises ever again and us parents, we're not happy. We're not," she added.

News 12 reached out to both Sheriff and the district on Thursday night to get some answers but did not hear back from them. The full, original statement from the district can be read here: