Brooklyn, NY – Halloween Costumes Banned from High School and Hitler’s to Blame

Brooklyn, NY – Halloween is banned at a Brooklyn high school – and Hitler's to blame.

A year after Walter Petryk, 17, came to school in a fuhrer-style mustache and Nazi uniform, Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences sent home a letter banning Halloween costumes – and Petryk is peeved.

Petryk – who has already rounded up a group of about 20 students to protest the ban by dressing up anyway – is mulling masquerading as a Hasidic Jew this year.

"This whole ban is ridiculous and they can't enforce it," said Petryk, of Park Slope. "Obviously, it's because of me.

"I'm trying to tell as many students as possible that they can't do anything to us."

The Department of Education disagrees – and says school Principal Joseph Zaza is within his rights to ban costumes on the premises that they are "disruptive to the educational process."

Schools, can require students to remove clothing that "interferes with the learning process," and if students refuse, they can be suspended for up to 10 days.

But Petryk isn't worried in the slightest. "We're going to dress up the day before or the day after, just to annoy them," he said. [nypost]