The calls for change in the school’s culture come following the principal’s response to a student who wore a military uniform costume on Halloween that was widely interpreted to represent a Nazi soldier.
It's the latest incident at Jones College Prep involving Principal Joseph Powers, who was removed Friday pending an investigation by Chicago Public Schools.
“Seeing this peer of mine walk through the halls in a place that I feel safe, in a very similar uniform that the people who committed a mass genocide against my ancestors, including my great grandparents was truly traumatizing,” said Gabi Josefson, a senior at Jones College Prep High School and co-president of the student organization Jewish Student Connection.
“A lot of students have felt that they’re pretty unsafe at the school as a whole and not just from this one isolated incident,” said Ariel McGee, a senior at Jones College Prep High School and student body president. “Jones has had a culture that hasn’t made students of color and people of marginalized identities as a whole feel very safe.”
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