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.
LOL!
I'll bet you're right.
The principal was right. The mother should have reported the problem to the sisters and teachers first. However, it's hard to believe that the teachers and the principal didn't know the meaning of the bracelets.
All this goes to prove that Catholic children aren't safe in Catholic schools either, which is one of many reasons why we homeschool.
Riiiight.
Too funny, someone else did alter the image in a more obvious manner.
"Half the school does it."
Reminds me of a woman who was going up to school to tell off the nun who reprimanded her 15 year old daughter for smoking in class! When my older sister went to Catholic high school students couldn't smoke within 10 blocks of the school if they were in uniform.
She looks like the molested girl in the first part of "Devils Advocate".
Five? She should be considering herself lucky. that is, if they're actually friends worth having. I had two, maybe three. And one of them didn't even go to my school.
Your excerpt says she sold the braceletes! If that is the case she should absolutely be kicked out of a Catholic school. This little girl apparently is part of the problem.
yep. I dunno, the Bible says go to your brother first, and if they don't listen THEN go to the 'authorities' in the church. So what'd she do wrong?
This is a really sad testimony for these kids. I have no doubt the other kids in the school know what the rings and bracelets "mean". No more innocents - tragic.
It's *POSSIBLE* - not clear in the story - that she just found out why kids were buying them and why they were such a hot fad, and when she did, she told her mom, and the rest is history.
do we really need to look at Alex all the time? ugh.
For whatever reason, the dad isn't mentioned. If he isn't involved, for whatever reason (other than an untimely death) that explains a lot of things, whether it's more the mom's fault or the dad's, doesn't really matter to the kid sometimes.
Where her child sells sex goods.
If I had sold sexual items in school the Catholic school would never had known about it. They'd only be scheduling last rights for me as I lay in my hospital bed. And that's only if they got to me BEFORE my mom told my dad.
But this 'lady' publicized to the world that her daughter was a sex worker rather than correct the behavior problem. There is no comment from her that her daughter did anything wrong at all. We are left with the impression that she approved of her daughter working in the sex trade
So she's not our idea of mother-of-the year. Why don't you speculate about the dad as much as you do about the mom.
You weren't paying attention. I said he's either long gone or the mother doesn't know who he is. Which means that some guy fathered a child and abandoned that child. He should be tracked down and executed.
Oh, I forgot. All women are evil alert! All women are evil alert!
I never said that. My wife is a Godly woman who is a blessing to me and our child in every way. But I will say that all feminists are evil
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