The school will continue to have various student themes related to football games and other extracurricular activities, he wrote.

Jim Tenopir, executive director of the Nebraska School Activities Association, said he didn’t know about the situation at the game.

He said there’s nothing in the association’s rules addressing paint.

“We’re at a point in time, as we have been for decades now, where there has to be a sensitivity involved anytime that you’re considering anything that has to do with gender, with race, with religion.”

He said NSAA would hope that districts “take the high ground” whenever there’s a chance of someone misinterpreting a celebration.

Omaha Public Schools officials sent a copy of Begley’s letter to Omaha North parents.

In their letter, OPS officials said that Friday morning, Millard officials reached out to OPS to explain that there were some concerns on social media about accusations of poor behavior at the game.

“Millard North explained that as part of a standing tradition at their high school, students use body and face paint to celebrate their first football game of the season,” they wrote.