3 Florida Students Suspended After Wearing KKK Outfits to School

A Pasco County, Florida school, was under controversy after images of students showing up in racist costumes began circulating social media this past week. Administrators at Wiregrass Ranch High School swiftly heeded calls for action, disciplining three of the four teens involved in the act of bigotry. While the incident is reported to have been an isolated one, District Superintendent Kurt Browning acknowledged it's potential to have sparked division as a cause for concern.

“The race relations and everything else going on across our country, the last thing we need to do is have any students dressed up, regardless of race, dressed up in that kind of costume,” Browning said.

The Wiregrass Ranch staff and student body had been celebrating it's Spirit Week when on Thursday [September 29], three students appeared covered in white sheets, with a fourth cloaked in a Confederate flag.  At least eight photos and a video that surfaced, show the students walking around the school campus with the offensive clothes on. When confronted by the school's leadership, those wearing the Ku Klux Klan-inspired costume [two of which have been identified as Hispanic, and one as Middle Eastern] claimed they were merely representing themselves as ghosts, but the pointed hat told the administrators otherwise.

The student wearing the Confederate flag did not face discipline, as the school does not have a policy that bans flags. The other three have been suspended.

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