Georgia school allows students to wear Ku Klux Klan robes

Georgia school allows students to wear Ku Klux Klan robesOfficials have said that a teacher at a second school in Georgia has been found to have allowed students to wear Ku Klux Klan robes as part of a re-enactment.

An investigation was being conducted into two incidents at Sweetwater Middle School in Lawrenceville involving eighth-grade social studies teacher Stephanie Hunte, a Gwinnett County schools spokeswoman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The newspaper reported on Wednesday that another teacher saw the students preparing for a re-enactment last Thursday and told an administrator. School officials learned another class had a similar activity the day before.

Spokeswoman Sloan Roach wrote in an e-mail message to the Journal-Constitution, "The administrator told [Hunte] that this type of activity was not appropriate and would not take place. As a result of this information, we have launched a human resources investigation into the matter."

Hunte, who has been employed by the district since August 2006, is black.

She never intended any offense by allowing students in an Advanced Placement history class to dress up as Klansmen, says Lumpkin County High School teacher Catherine Ariemma, who is white. She says the costumes were part of a film re-enactment project she assigned the students.

She may have made a mistake allowing the filming on campus, Ariemma, a six-year veteran with the school system, told the newspaper. (With Inputs from Agencies)