"Sex Bracelet" Girl
Posted on 05/25/2004 1:03:54 AM PDT by kattracks
May 25, 2004 -- A 11-year-old Queens fifth-grader was booted from her Catholic elementary school for blowing the whistle on a bizarre sex-bracelets game. "I'm happy. I hate that school," a defiant Megan Stecher said after learning that Holy Child Jesus School in Richmond Hill won't let her return next year. "I only have five friends in the whole year."Megan said getting the boot was unfair, but her mother, Michelle, 33, was much angrier.
"I'm outraged," she declared.
Michelle said school officials claimed she slandered Holy Child by allowing her daughter to be photographed by The Post in front of it wearing bracelets and rings that represent different sex acts.
"I didn't slander anybody," said Michelle, after her daughter's expulsion was reported on Fox News. "But what they did today - throwing my daughter out of school - that's slander."
Megan was the subject of a Post front-page story Sunday revealing that some city kids - including girls at Holy Child - play a strange game called "Snap" where girls wear bracelets and rings of different colors and boys try to rip them off.
If a boy succeeds, he gets a coupon from the girl promising to perform whatever sex act the color stands for. Black, for example, represents sexual intercourse.
Michelle said she allowed her daughter to be interviewed because "I wanted parents to know that if it's happening in Catholic schools, its happening in public schools and it's happening everywhere. Half the school does it."
Yesterday, the bracelets hit the fan.
Sister Diane Androvich, the principal, called Megan and her mother in and said the girl would be allowed to take her final exams this year, but wouldn't be allowed back next year, the family said.
"They said I did an un-Christian thing," Michelle said. "They said if there was a problem, I should have reported it to them first. But I feel I was right to let other parents know what their children are doing."
School officials did not return calls for comment.
(yet another catholic cover up)
Here is a True example of a high potential Mother of the Year Candidate!!!
Every parent should pull their kid out of this school.
You know, the Catholic Church's recent track record on such things isn't very good. I'm with the mother on this one.
"Sex Bracelet" Girl
For the little girl who has everybody everything.
If you had played that game in the Catholic school I went to, the only thing that would have been "snapped" off of you was your ear. God, how I hate the modern world.
Behold the legacy of Liberalism and Moral Relativism. Unbelievable!
She deserved to be thrown out of school, just for that smug look on her face when she was on the cover of Sunday's Post!
LOL,me too. If our uniform skirts showed our knees we got in a alot of trouble. My dad was brutal.LOL. I hated that but now I miss it. I wish my grandchildren could be as lucky as I was.
Oh, so that makes it okay. All righty then.
Do Gel Bracelets Encourage Sexual Activity?
4/14/2004
By Martha Kleder
Sex educators exploit silly teen trend.
Brightly colored gel wristbands are a teen trend nationwide. But some health department officials claim that the bands are a code used by students to trade sexual favors. If one student takes a white band off another’s wrist, he is requesting a kiss. A red one represents a lap dance and a black one means sexual intercourse. The color code varies from school to school, they add.
Now, so-called comprehensive sex educators are taking advantage of this fad to push their agenda.
“There’s a lot of things going on out there that we don’t know about,” Palm Beach County, Florida, Health Department spokesman Tim O’Connor told school board members Monday. Health Department Director Jean Malecki used the occasion to push for more comprehensive sex education in public schools, urging school board members to overturn the current abstinence-focused education.
Comprehensive sex education teaches teens to become sexually active whenever they feel ready--as long as they use condoms or other contraception. Abstinence education focuses on equipping teens to reserve sexual activity for marriage.
“It’s ironic that those who most loudly proclaim that we should ‘do for our children’ are the ones who use our children for special agendas,” said Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, senior fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute. She also noted that most teens wear the bracelets because it’s a fad, and not to advertise sexual favors.
The trend, also known as a game called “Snap” because a boy is supposed to break one of the gels off a girl’s wrist to claim a particular act, has reached the point where some schools in Florida have banned the bracelets.
“I think jelly bracelets are awesome,” writes a teenager named Mandi on a Web site dedicated to the topic. “I don’t believe the meanings. I wear them because they are cool.”
Another teen named James chimed in: “Dude, they are bracelets …just becuz (sic) someone snaps it, doesn’t mean you gotta do anything … I mean, c’mon! (sic)”
That’s the point Crouse says comprehensive sex educators are missing.
“This is a perfect example of misusing a silly teen trend,” she said. “The majority of the teens wearing the bracelets may not be aware of the sex game, yet sex educators are going to take a few incidents and use them to scare school boards into adopting comprehensive sex education as though it were a silver bullet that would stop such fads and activities among teens.”
“Palm Beach County Health Department Officials are debunking abstinence education, although they offer no evidence, and claim that comprehensive sex education is the solution, when they have not even defined the problem,” Crouse added.
“A teen committed to purity will remain so, with or without a gel bracelet.”
I kind of doubt that any decent mother would run to the nearest newspaper and television camera if she found out that her daughter was wearing "sex bracelets".
Fifth grader Megan Stecher shows off her array of "sex" jelly bracelets in front of her school.
Megan Stecher, 11, a fifth-grader who sells the $1 bracelets to her classmates at Holy Child Jesus School in Richmond Hill, Queens, for $1.25 said her teachers are not aware of what they symbolize.
"No one wants to tell them, either," Megan said. "Everyone collects and wears all the colors to school, and all the kids know exactly what every color stands for." "One person tells someone, and they tell someone else, and that's how it spread," Megan said. "I heard about it in the neighborhood."
Megan's mother, Michelle Stecher, 33, originally thought it was an innocent fashion fad.
"I thought it was an outrageous Britney Spears phase, like Madonna used to do in the '80s with the black rubber bracelets," she said.
She's selling the bracelets in school? My 24 year old son used to buy candy at Sam's Club prices and sell them for a mark-up at school out of his locker until one of the teachers told him not to. I stood behind the school but secretly thought he was an entrepeneur. Now, if he was selling "sex bracelets" that would be a different matter.
Coming soon: A new topic on "Jerry Springer."
Duh.
LOL
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