Suffolk

Content Preview

Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access
Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here

Commack HS senior sent home for Aunt Jemima costume

Every year since the third grade, Dean Jeziorkowski has gone to school dressed as a woman for Halloween - Barbie, Wilma Flintstone, Pocahontas, a nun.

This year the 17-year-old Commack High School senior dressed as a black-faced Aunt Jemima, prompting school officials to send him home after he refused to scrub the makeup off his face, Jeziorkowski said.

The student said he was told the...

newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and Optimum Online® subscribers. To continue reading, please log in or register now.

  • Already
    registered on
    newsday.com?
    log in
  • Already a subscriber
    to Newsday or
    Optimum Online®?
    get access
  • Not a Newsday
    or Optimum Online®
    subscriber?
    click here

Photos and videos