In March, about three weeks after posting the photos on social media websites, administrators at the $53,000 per year school – the most expensive high school in the country – told her that she would face disciplinary action if she did not resign from her position as student body president.
Both students and faculty members felt the images were offensive, and that ‘it was not fitting of a student leader to make comments mocking members of the community,’ Dean of Students Nancy Thomas told the Lawrenceville student paper.
Peterson’s take on race has irritated her classmates in the past, as well.
In 2012, following the re-election of President Barack Obama, Peterson wrote on Facebook about how proud she was that an African-American was president – and threw in a sarcastic jab at white people.
‘As a black and Latino, gay woman in the United States of America, today is a momentous day,’ she wrote. ‘I’m sorry to all the rich white men who have failed to elect a president that endorses their greed.’