Baldwin-Woodville High School Student Suspended For Giving Noose, KKK Symbols To Peer: A student has been suspended from Baldwin-Woodville High School in Baldwin, Wis., for giving a small noose and KKK symbols to a classmate during an art class.
The male freshman placed the items, believed to be a macrame noose and miniature hat, on the desk of a female peer, who is one of three black students in the school of 450, the Star Tribune reports.
Principal Eric Russell told the paper the boy said his actions were meant to be a joke. But the girl and her family didn't find the prank funny. The 15-year-old's foster parents say they have been working to adopt her amid racist harassment.
"She has been experiencing racial comments since joining our family her eighth-grade year," foster mother Sarah Hitzeman told the Tribune. "Her freshman year stared out with students calling her 'Big Mocha' and making fun of her hair and breasts.'"
