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.
"Grandma, what's this picture of you and Mommy about? What's a sex bracelet?".
Oh trust me, we tried..hehe..but between the Nuns and my dad we lost..errr..kept trying..LOL.
Oh, I just remembered being 11 or 12. Everybody was just figuring out what this sex thing was all about, there were all these rumors that so-and-so was doing it and so-and-so was a slut, etc., etc., etc.
The kids choir at my church went to England last year and some of the boys and girls got caught playing truth-or-dare with a flavored condom.
Point being, flipping out over this behavior is just going to incite more of it.
What kind of mother allows her daughter to be photographed as a seller of sex bracelets? To get at the school? Maybe if her daughter was trying to resist, not profit from, the activity. And the school has a point about going to them first (Mat. 18).
Funny, that is missing from the top article, isn't it? It says that she was suspended merely for being photographed.
The reporter needs to be a little more accurate.
LOL - mine did the same thing - she asked me to buy a bag of ring pops - I said you dont need that much sugar - she said - Im selling them at school - I took my cut and bought her the bag
she's gonna be a banker I figure
Sister Diane Androvich: Somehow that name doesnt inspire, me like the older nuns names . Sister James Catherine, Sister Mary Celestine, Sister Mary Placide, Sister Laurita, When did nuns start using their own names, I truly dont know because in my small community we havent seen a real nun in years. The good Sisters who used to teach here disappeared 20 years ago their Mother House in Kentucky has been turned into an old aged home.
The mother should not have allowed her daughter to be photographed.
Catholic bashers will jump on this post.
IMO, it is the mother who is an absolute moron here...
And the daughter isn't far behind.
Besides, it is a private school. They deserve the right to keep the morally irrelevant in the public troughs [schools] of government PC speak.
Yes, but the question is whether they will actually go after all the kids involved or just the one who um, blew the whistle.
I think the outrage against the mother is sorely misplaced. The mother isn't saying "it's okay that my daughter is engaged in sex because half the school does it," she's saying "it's okay that my daughter made it public because parents need to know that half the school does it."
There's a big difference. The daughter should be punished for selling the bracelets, but not for making this whole sick "game" known.
I wait to hear what the church is doing to the other students.
Wonder what her dad thinks?
And this is an 11 year old --- 6th grade??? The girl is pimping.
Girls started wearing colorful bracelets a few years ago, totally innocently, and some perverts in the media fantasized some sexual game about the bracelets and once they bring the lie to the public consciousness...the bracelets then become what they promote them to be.
MIchelle wants more than fifteen minutes of fame. Unmariied?
Fame's no husband.
Why should it matter? Her mom is more than capable of raising her daughter on her own. Obviously no male influence is required here. Why do you just assume that a father is needed at all. Are you anti-woman or something. WOMEN CAN DO ANYTHING THAT MEN CAN DO. KEEP YOUR CHURCH OUT OF MY REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTSWE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ABORTION AND YOU CAN'T STOP US Death to all men!!!!!!!
< /feminist rant mode off >
Now that we've heard the feminist response. I'd bet that the father is long gone or that the mother doesn't even know who he is. Her daughter is a sex worker and she's ticked at the school for kicking the little pimp out?!
My friend who teaches the sixth grade in a public school in Florida caught two of his students going at it in an isolated area of the school yard. When he told the parent, she said "oh, that's just what kids are doin' these days!"
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