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No Messiah for West Brook Middle School: Alex Woinski was sent home for dressing as Jesus Christ for Halloween.
Actually, the Paramus school just wanted him to change, but it wasn't as easy as that: Woinski's costume was particularly elaborate--the Bergen Record reports that the eighth-grader already "has shoulder-length brown hair" so he "donned a long white robe with a red sash, a fake beard, sandals and a crown of thorns." His mother explained, "They would have let him wear the costume, but he had to get rid of the crown of thorns and the beard," which meant she had to leave work and take her son home to shower. He returned to school later.
Principal Joan Broe told WCBS 2, "I don't think I overreacted," noting that the costume's, uh, class-stopping qualities--and not the religious nature--was why Woinski was sent home. "Children were [asking], where is the boy who is Jesus Christ? It was disrupting the education process." As for why he chose the costume? Alex Woinski has reportedly grown interested in Jesus Christ recently (his mother is Catholic and father is Jewish), plus his friends said his long hair made him look like J.C.
Flashback: A Brooklyn student was reprimanded for dressing as Hitler at Leon M. Goldstein High School on Halloween in 2006. The school decided to ban any and all Halloween costumes last year.
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all he had to do was say that he was a day laborer named "hay-sus" and that the crown of thorns was actually a makeshift hat to protect him from the sun.
So, none of the other costumes were "disrupting the education process"? Girls dressed like hookers, to be sure, it being Jersey.
Oh sure, make him a martyr.
handsomedevil FTW!
Jesus was not white! There were no blue-eyed cuacasians in the middle east. Jesus would look more like Osama bin Laden than Jim Caviezel.
Welcome to Barack HUSSEIN Obama's Amerikka.
handsomedevil wins.
hahah.
"Jesus would look more like Osama bin Laden than Jim Caviezel. "
The image of jesus apparently is derived from a greek god. I'm not sure which but the image is almost the same.
At least that's what I learned in catholic school.
I don't get why he had to go home and shower if all he had to do was remove the beard and crown of thorns. Just remove the beard and wash your face in the bathroom? Where does the showering part come in?
maybe he had strawberry jelly all over his face to resemble the blood(?)
either way, people over react. they are more afraid to offend when it comes to religion, but I am SURE there were a lot of provocative costumes that would have been more fitted for banning, like r1b2 said.
Jesus Christ this is just so fucking stupid...
Does this put dressing as Hitler and dressing as Jesus on the same level? Pretty ironic.
Actually the modern depictions of Jesus (derived from the middle ages) stems from CESARE BORGIA (who was very corrupt BTW).
In reality the real Jesus would have looked more middle eastern.
The myth of Jesus shares many similarities with many Solar Gods of ancient past.
What a perfect opportunity for the teacher to say, "Jesus Christ, will you please stop talking!"
"Children were [asking], where is the boy who is Jesus Christ? It was disrupting the education process."
Suuuuureee.
They asked him to remove it because it was 'disrupting the education process'.
Anyone else smell the whiff of BS?
There are quite a few eight grade students here in NYC that wouldn't need to use a fake beard.
Another kid shows up to school only to be crucified by the teachers and administrators over his clothes.