GALESVILLE, Wis., June 16 (UPI) -- Some Wisconsin high school students face disciplinary action for wearing T-shirts to school that featured Ku Klux Klan members playing in a band, officials say.
Staff at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School in Galesville, Wis., confiscated a dozen of the apparently homemade shirts on the last day of the school term Friday, The Winona (Minn.) Daily News reported.
School superintendent Troy Gunderson said punishment could be community service, or the students involved could be suspended when school resumes for the fall term.
Referring to the incident, Gunderson said, "It was a pretty hostile place to be if you were an African American student," the Daily News reported.
"Children will test the boundaries of authority at all times and want to find out where the lines will be drawn and what the consequences are," Gunderson told WXOW-TV, LaCrosse, Wis.
"It's natural for teenagers to do that kind of stuff. But it's so offensive. This is such an egregiously offensive area of our nation's history, of our local history, of all of us," Gunderson said.
