CHICAGO (AP) – A Chicago high school principal has been suspended after a student in a German military uniform goose-stepped during a Halloween costume event. Joseph Powers told staff at Jones College Prep that the student was dressed as a Cold War-era East German soldier. But Powers said the boy also may have told others that “it was from the 1940s.” Powers says many students and staff recognized it as antisemitic. Powers has been suspended while the matter is investigated. Chicago schools chief executive Pedro Martinez says hateful speech has been rising. A student, Yamali Rodas, says the boy should have been taken aside and told that it was inappropriate.
