East Coweta high school in damage control after student dressed in confederate flag and Ku Klux Klan hood

The image, taken in the parking lot of the school, was posted via Twitter on Tuesday after appearing on another social media site — likely Snapchat — and it wasn’t soon before it spread across the inteet, forcing the school to react.

East Coweta has officially fallen to shit pic.twitter.com/edV8an3pwF— Lorenzo (@SpacemanLozo) November 17, 2015

On Wednesday the school sent a letter to parents where Principal Steve Allen assured, ”no specific threat was made in the incident.

”The two students who were involved were identified and an immediate investigation was conducted, the letter reads.

”The school system is continuing to investigate the matter, and is implementing disciplinary consequences.

Just a month earlier, a school board in Montgomery, Georgia, voted to ban students from displaying the confederate flag in the ”hope the ban removes distractions from school activities and provides a more comfortable leaing environment for all students, according to WSLS.

Lorenzo Lewis, a former student of East Cowan high, tweeted the image with the caption: ”East Coweta has officially fallen to sh*t.

”It left me speechless that a person could be so ignorant as to not only dress like that at school but pose for a picture as well, Mr Lewis explained on Twitter.

”He [student] said it was a joke but I don’t know anyone who would think that’s funny. And all I know is that the school is investigating the situation and I think the students involved got suspended.

”I’m shedding light on a racial issue and I have the right to do so.

He said he posted the photo after someone sent him it to him and did not know the students involved.

Tensions are high across Georgia, located in America’s south, over the debate conceing the flag. Since the Charleston shootings in June, when Dylann Roof charged a Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot nine African Americans to death in the hope to spark a new ”civil war, protesters have called for the removal of the historic symbol of the Confederacy across the country.

But not everyone wants the flag to go.

Just last week, Confederate flag supporters climbed Stone Mountain, the site of the founding of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915, in a bid to keep the attraction ”pure to its Confederate roots by keeping a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. off of it.

According to the Southe Poverty Law Centre, ”Stone Mountain, the park near Atlanta, is shaping up to be the new battleground between the KKK, pro-Confederate groups and those promoting ideas to move society away from hate symbols of the past, including the Confederate flag.

A Facebook image of the menu at General Beauregard’s, including the infamous shooter.Source:Supplied

It follows on from recent controversy where a bar in the home town of the University of Georgia, in Athens, in the state’s east, copped criticism for featuring a racist drink on its menu — a shot called a Ni**gerita.

The offensive drink was sold at General Beauregard’s, a ”Confederate-themed bar that only recently were persuaded to not fly a Confederate flag in their front windows, reports rawstory.com.