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Florida students face punishment for wearing KKK costumes

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk and Bob D'Angelo
By Cox Media Group National Content Desk and Bob D'Angelo
Three Florida students are facing disciplinary action after wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes to school Thursday during a Spirit Week dress up day.
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Pictures of the Wiregrass Ranch High School students dressed in white sheets with white pointed hoods appeared on social media.
Pasco County School District officials said two of the students are Hispanic and one is Middle Eastern.
Another student wore a Confederate flag as a cape. He was asked to take it off and was not disciplined, officials said.
“Nothing surprises me now,” parent Michael Gadson told WFTS.
“It’s kind of sick,” student Vanessa Dorsey told the station.
Initial reports from Wiregrass Ranch said they were ghost costumes.
 “Usually ghosts don’t have pointed hoods,” Pasco County Superintendent Kurt Browning told WFTS.
The three students, who were not identified, posted a photo of themselves dressed up in white sheets on social media with the caption, “BRUHHHHHHHHH,” WTVT reported.
On its Facebook page, the Pasco County School district wrote that it “will not tolerate such offensive harassment!”
“The last thing we need is to have any student regardless of race dressed up in that type of costume,” Browning said.
The district has not said how the three students are being punished, but told WFTS it could include up to a 10-day out of school suspension.
 

Three Wiregrass Ranch High School students wore costumes for spirit week resembling KKK robes. We will not tolerate such offensive harassment!

Posted by Pasco County Schools on Thursday, September 29, 2016

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