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Idaho school investigating after teachers wore border wall costumes for Halloween
Fox News ^ | 11/2/18 | Kathleen Joyce

Posted on 11/02/2018 4:56:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

An Idaho elementary school came under fire after photos showed staff members dressed as the border wall for Halloween this week. The costume had the words “Make America Great Again” written over the front. The employees also wore costumes exploiting Mexican stereotypes.

Photos posted to the Middleton School District’s Facebook page showed staff members from the Middleton Heights Elementary School dressed up in cardboard to appear like a wall, KTVB reported [near Boise].

The words “Make America Great Again” were written in red, white and blue. The teachers were also seen wearing sombreros and brightly colored ponchos. The word “Mexican” was written on a sombrero worn by a woman in the photo. The photos have since been taken down from the school's Facebook page.

Josh Middleton, the superintendent of the Middleton School District, addressed the photos in a Facebook Live on Friday. Middleton confirmed the district was investigating the photos. Middleton said he was informed of the photos after he was contacted by a parent who expressed concern over the costumes.

“I was shown photos and troubled by the decision by our staff members to wear those costumes that are clearly insensitive and inappropriate,” he said. “I want to say we are better than this."


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: border; costue; halloween; magateachers; pc; teachers; triggered; trump; wall
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Dave's Site

I don't see a sombero but a Cat in the Hat hat with a maple leaf like on the Canadian flag. Dave's Site



My eyes must be getting bad.
21 posted on 11/02/2018 6:06:13 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

How horrible that Americans don’t want their country over run by foreigners......./s


22 posted on 11/02/2018 6:09:50 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RedMonqey

Great costumes on ALL the young ladies! Love Liberty and the Eagle.

You just KNOW if there were really a sombrero there, it would have been in the photo.

Gotta love the comment at the Fox site: “Not an authentic replica [of the wall], no barbed wire. Case dismissed.”


23 posted on 11/02/2018 6:10:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Robert DeLong

Yep. Our strength is that everybody can go as far as his or her talent and initiative will take you. Doesn’t matter at all what color you are.


24 posted on 11/02/2018 6:12:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Dave's Site

That’s Racist!
25 posted on 11/02/2018 6:14:38 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Gotta love the comment at the Fox site: “Not an authentic replica [of the wall], no barbed wire. Case dismissed.”

I'm beginning to believe Freepers who say Fox has turned on being conservative.

I downloaded this pix and blew the picture up and it STILL looks like a "Cat-in-a-Hat" hat with a Canadian Maple leaf flag!

My lyin' eyes, eh?
26 posted on 11/02/2018 6:20:21 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.


27 posted on 11/02/2018 7:21:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the DemocRats are all cats.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

***showed staff members dressed as the border wall***

This is stupid. Fifty two years ago the CAVEMAN school newspaper at Carlsbad High School showed a cartoon of a football game. The opposing team was wearing a BRICK WALL uniform much like this. No one got offended. No one cried and went home.


28 posted on 11/02/2018 7:32:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The administration of this school and district from the vice-principal on up to the top of the school board needs to be fired forthwith


29 posted on 11/02/2018 7:34:13 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

30 posted on 11/02/2018 8:50:17 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

There is a post about this here in Idaho that says this all took place after school as a contest for all the teachers that wanted to participate. Contest was to represent a country or countries. They chose this costume because they felt this is a hot topic and it is worldwide, some are for some are against the wall. This team won and it was photographed and posted for no reason. I don’t understand why they are not allowed to work and are paid leave. If I knew how to post a copy of the post I would. Media outrage is making me literally sick! When will conservatives grow some and hit back.


31 posted on 11/04/2018 6:45:32 AM PST by conservative_cyclist ( America is becoming Great again, at a great pace I might add)
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To: conservative_cyclist

Reply with the name of the newspaper and a link. I can post it


32 posted on 11/04/2018 7:06:51 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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