Now that's scary!

From This Is True:

NOT OKKK: Grand Rapids, Mich., School Superintendent Bert Bleke has accepted an offer from City High School Principal Jane DeGroot to forfeit three days' pay for allowing a student to attend a Halloween costume party dressed as a Ku Klux Klan member; he won first prize for "scariest costume". Bleke says the Asian student "didn't realize just how offensive this was," and wondered why none of the teachers prevented the student from wearing the costume. Despite not stopping the student, DeGroot wrote a letter to parents that "it hurts to have the good name of City linked in any way with such an abhorrent organization." She then issued a five-day suspension to the student who wore the costume. (Grand Rapids Press) ...So why didn't she offer to forfeit five days' pay?

You know, if he was awarded a prize for the costume, how bad can it have been? Has anyone spoken to the judges about the offense they gave by not snubbing the thing altogether?

One Halloween, when hexavalent chromium in the water was all over the news, I dug out some aluminum foil and entered the costume contest as "hexavalent chromium". Now that's a scary costume!