Dad: School allowed boy to make mask that looks like Ku Klux Klan hood

abcactionnews.com ^ | 8 Oct 2010 | Larry Stewart

[smokingfrog]

A first-grade art project has two parents so upset that they are moving their son to another school in another city.

Monday, Dallas Smith, 6, came home wearing a white, cone-shaped mask he made in art class at Winfield-Scott Elementary in Fort Scott, Kansas.

“It appears to look like a Ku Klux Klan hat, which is a heck of a thing to put on a six-year-old boy,” said Barry Smith, Dallas’ father.

It was part of a project done in Russ Gordon’s art class.

“That was never, never the purpose of the project,” Gordon said, referring to Smith’s description of Dallas’ hat.

To Gordon, art is eye candy. He uses it to teach the principals of shape, symmetry and texture. Monday’s project was supposed to do just that.

Students designed their own masks with paper. Gordon showed them a poster with different masks from around the world to give the children ideas. For 30 years, Gordon’s done the mask project without complaint.

[smokingfrog]

The poor kid's art career is definitely down the tubes now.

Video at link.

[Netizen]

Should of said it was a dunce cap that was too big.

[skr]

The teacher has apologized. The parents seem to be overreacting to something that’s over and done with.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Isn’t it yet a bit early for donning Halloween apparel?

[Netizen]

Guess it depends on how much work you want to put into your costume.

[Blue Jays]

It is a dumb kid's hat.
The child doesn't know about history.
Big deal about nothing.

[NoLibZone]

[Rastus]

The teacher should have said it was a tribute to the late Sen. Byrd.

[smokingfrog]

[Netizen]

I agree. The kid made his own hat, yet the parents are going to send him to a different school. What does that accomplish besides them getting some attention?

[funfan]

If that failed he could of said it was in homage to the Late Great Senator Byrd

[funfan]

If that failed he could of said it was in homage to the Late Great Senator Byrd

[BuckyKat]

Dang, if only he'd told his dad he wanted to be a princess. Perhaps daddy dearest would have been happier if this were the look he were going for?

[Hardraade]

It “appears to look like”???

Do these parents have som particularly perverse cultural or mental background? Like, from obama’s propaganda ministry, mental institution, or something?

[Netizen]

Do these parents have som particularly perverse cultural or mental background? Like, from obama’s propaganda ministry, mental institution, or something?

I'm beginning to think that some people see racism everywhere in everything, even in their own child's creativity. Maybe they can get him a job at the slavery museum.

[Elyse]

Hmmmmmm...I smell a lawsuit in the making. I wonder how much money the parents think they can get from all this pain and suffering.

[Brad from Tennessee]

“It appears to look like a Ku Klux Klan hat. . .”

I think the proper term is “hood.”

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Then they’ll love my Halloween costume. I’m getting a pompadour wig, a guitar, and a Nazi uniform and going as John Cougar Deathcamp.

[Ronin]

Dumb parents!

Did they miss the part where he said the KID DESIGNED IT HIMSELF?

[Sarajevo]

Those parents are pathetic.