HS PRINCIPAL MAD AT STORY BANS REPORTER FROM GAME: What happens when a newspaper writes about a possible hate-crime incident at your school? You ban their reporter from your homecoming game, of course.

WTVQ in Lexington, KY, reports that the WINCHESTER SUN ran a story about a black student receiving a threatening note from four white classmates at George Rogers Clark High School in Kentucky.

The note contained stick-figure drawings of a black figure being hanged by a white figure, with a drawing of the Confederate flag and the messages “I had a dream white power” and “the south will rize (sic) again.”

After the paper published the story and offending note last Friday, Clark principal Gordon Parido decided to ban Sun sports editor Keith Taylor from the press box for that night’s homecoming game.

One can only assume that Parido was mad at the Sun for making his school look bad, and thought that keeping the paper away from the game would teach them a lesson. Instead, it only made himself look even more ridiculous - and provided additional material for the Sun’s readership.

But Taylor had nothing to do with the original story, and he ended up covering the game, anyway. And now the Sun reports that Parido has apologized for Taylor’s banishment.

Wonder if they’ll ban him from visiting the newsroom.