Louisiana middle school principal, high school coach wear offensive Halloween costumes

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October 23, 2015

By The Grio

A middle school principal and high school coach are in hot water over offensive Halloween costumes that they wore earlier this month.

Iota Middle School Principal Lee Ann Wall and her husband Jeptha Wall, a coach at Crowley High School, wore costumes called “People of Walmart.” Jeptha was dressed with a red bandana around his waist, a gun in his belt and money poking out of his pockets. Lee Ann had a basket full of baby dolls, black and white, with a sign that read, “You wait on pay day, I be waiting for da first of da month!”

KLFY received the photo from a viewer who called the image a “display of classism and racism.”

“Wow, okay. So what is she trying to depict? Somebody who’s on welfare? If that is what she was trying to depict that’s even worse.” Alan Honersucker told KLFY.

Nathan Kresge, of Itoa, said, “To make fun of people that just can’t afford a better way of life, to make fun of them? That’s just ridiculous!”

While others are claiming that the costumes were simply meant to be costumes, Ellan Baggett, the Executive Director of Operations with the Acadia Parish School Board, has said that the school board had taken appropriate actions, though she did not divulge specifics.

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