A couple in Louisiana are raising quite a few eyebrows after opting to dress up as the “people of Walmart” for Halloween this year.
Why are they in so much trouble? Well, the couple just happens to be Iota Middle School principal Lee Ann Wall and her husband, Jeptha Wall, a coach at Crowley High School.
With more than 138 million people shopping at Walmart each week, a middle school principal and a small town high school coach are the last two people in the world that anybody would expect to stoop to such a low level.
While the idea of dressing up as the “people of Walmart” would usually be enough for any educator to reconsider, the Walls’ Halloween costumes are even worse than anybody could imagine.
Not only did Principal Walls dress up in black short-shorts, while holding a shopping cart full of multi-racial baby dolls, she also walked around with a sign that read: “You wait on pay day, I be waiting for da first of da month!”
Meanwhile, her husband decided to sport a bandana wrapped around his waist, with a gun tucked into his belt, and cash falling out of his pocket.
The T-shirt he’s wearing in the cringe-worthy photo of the couple’s costumes reads: “Baby’s Daddy.”
Needless to say, once parents found out about the unbelievably offensive costumes, they were not happy.
One concerned parent, whose daughter attends Iota Middle School, even reached out to KLFY news and said the costumes were an obvious “display of classism and racism.”
KLFY quickly approached other members of the community to find out what they thought of the principal and her husband’s costumes.
“Wow, okay. So what is she trying to depict? Somebody who’s on welfare? If that is what she was trying to depict that’s even worse,” said resident Alan Honersucker.
“To make fun of people that just can’t afford a better way of life, to make fun of them? That’s just ridiculous!” fellow neighbor Nathan Kresge added.
After finding out about the controversial costumes, Executive Director of Operations with the Acadia Parish School Board Ellen Baggett said that the school will be taking “appropriate action” against the faculty members, but didn’t reveal any more details.