A Trempealeau County school is still dealing with controversy this week after a group of students came to school last Friday wearing home-made shirts showing members of the Ku Klux Klan.

We went to Galesville Tuesday and talked to the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau superintendent about what went on in his school on the last day of classes last Friday.

For more than 100 years, the Ku Klux Klan has been tied to white hoods and white supremacy, last week school leaders say these kinds of images surfaced in school.

“The t-shirt depicts three people wearing what I’m going to refer as commonly the garb associated with KKK and they had white robes on and holes where the eyes would show and those people were playing in a band,” Superintendent Troy Gunderson tells us.

But Gunderson says it was bad timing for such a big incident. Students were let out of school just an hour or two after teachers discovered the shirts. He says they collected 12 in all.

“Somebody reported it to the office between 9 and 10 in the morning, then school let out at about 11:30, and then administrators were in a rush to find out who was behind this,” Gunderson says.

But that still left many students shocked, and surprised.

“It was actually scary, I’m surprised some kids would actually wear t-shirts like that,” Hunter Evenson, a Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau sophomore tells us.

“I think it’s just ridiculous that they did it, it was uncalled for and just dumb,” Brittney Hibbard who just graduated from Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau says.

These students told us a fight broke out between several African American students and the people who created the shirts. Superintendent Gunderson says he couldn't confirm this.

Superintendent Gunderson says free speech has always been a polarizing topic and continues to be today, he says this incident will serve as a teaching tool for students for years to come.

“In this case because free speech is such a big topic at a high school, here will be an example for us to talk about why wasn’t that ok, what are the consequences for that,” Gunderson says.

Gunderson also tells us police are still investigating Friday’s incident and why the students were wearing the t-shirts, and until that investigation is complete he's not sure if the students will be punished.