It’s 2015 And A High School Student Thought His KKK Costume Was OK

A photo of a high school student in Coweta County, Georgia wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and holding a confederate flag has gained a lot of attention after someone posted it on social media this week.

The image was initially posted on Twitter by Lorenzo Lewis with the caption “East Coweta has officially fallen to s**t.” The photo appears to be a screenshot of a Snapchat story. Lewis, who is an alumni of the high school, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that someone sent him the photo and he decided to tweet it.

East Coweta High School officials have identified the two students involved in the photo, taken on Tuesday morning before class, according to the AJC.

The school's principal Steve Allen sent a letter to parents on Wednesday addressing the photo. He wrote that an investigation was conducted immediately and the school determined that there was no specific threat made.

"The school system is continuing to investigate the matter, and is implementing disciplinary consequences,” he wrote. "The Coweta County School System does not allow behavior that infringes on the safety of its students, staff or volunteers, and does not tolerate behavior intended to bully, harass or intimidate others on our campuses."

School spokesman Dean Jackson didn’t reveal the students’ identities or the disciplinary action taken, however, he did express disdain at this incident.

“It won’t be tolerated, I think I can say very, very generally about that,” Jackson told WSB-TV. "It is being addressed and I think the one thing that I could say, too, that photo is out there for people to see and it is the actions of some individual people -- it is not reflective of 2,900 students of this campus, it is not reflective of this school.”

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