ANAHEIM HILLS – Canyon High School will eliminate “Señores and Señoritas Day,” an event where students were encouraged to don Latino-themed attire, after several students this spring arrived to campus dressed as gang members, gardeners, border patrol agents and pregnant teens. Orange Unified officials have announced they will also require the school’s administrators and staff to take sensitivity training, and vow to better review student activities to ensure they aren’t culturally insensitive.These actions follow a district investigation into a complaint from a former student who called the “Señores and Señoritas Day” racist and offensive to Latino students and their families.

This is going to come off as incredibly racist, probably because it is, but what was best case scenario here? I honestly don’t know. Like if I were to dress up as a contributing member of Mexican society, what do I wear? If dudes riding goats with ponchos and sombreros is racist, and so are gangbangers, gardeners and 16 and Pregnant cast members then how do I dress up for Señores and Señoritas Day? The pool boy at a resort in Acapulco? A chupacabra? A Lucha Libre wrestler? I gotta tell you, these kids should plead ignorance here just like I’m doing. Tell me what Latino-themed attire these kids could have worn to not be considered racist before you call them racist.