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Title-Jones College Prep Students Plan Protest After Student Shows Up In Nazi-Like Uniform On Halloween


snip-"Clips of the student marching in the Monday parade made the rounds on social media this week. In one clip, he can be seen swinging his arm and leg in a march — now largely associated with Nazi soldiers — to boos from the audience.

But the principal has downplayed the incident, an alumna and school staffer said. Students are now planning to host a walkout Monday at the school, 700 S. State St., and school workers and parents want the principal dismissed for his reaction to this and past racist incidents, a staff member and a school parent said.

In an email to Jones faculty and staff hours after the event, Powers said the student’s uniform was “an East German (communist era) border guard uniform probably from the 1980s,” adding that he’d seen guards on the “other side of the wall dressed this way” during a visit to West Berlin around that time.

“I tried to explain the context and time period of the uniform to the students who spoke with me, but apparently the student who wore the uniform may have told people it was from the 1940s. I spoke with him this afternoon and explained the same thing to him and the inferences others may have drawn,” Powers wrote."


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