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School Sends Captain Underpants Girls Home (Girls Dressed Up For Superhero Day)
WKMG TV NEWS ^
| 10-26-2006
Posted on 10/26/2006 9:03:00 AM PDT by Cagey
LONG BEACH, N.Y. -- Captain Underpants may be a superhero, but he isn't welcome at one suburban New York school.
Three 17-year-old girls were told to leave Long Beach High School when they showed up on the school's Superhero Day dressed as the subject of the bestselling children's books.
Captain Underpants is a superhero from popular books that has battled, among other things, talking toilets and the infamous Professor Poopypants.
The girls, Chelsea Horowitz, Ashley Imhof and Eliana Levin, wore beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes. They were completely covered.
Principal Nicholas Restivo said he knows they weren't naked, but it appeared that way, so he sent them home. He didn't like the way they looked.
Other students were allowed to stay at school. They were dressed as Superman, Wonderwoman and other well-known superheroes.
One of the girls said she doesn't understand the fuss. Honor student Horowitz said of the costume, "They're not see-through or anything."
The principal said the girls could have worn gym shorts or even called someone to bring clothes to school for them. But the teens said that they felt forced to leave school. They all went home.
Horowitz said she and her friends did not want to wear "someone else's hand-me-downs" and that they had nobody else who was available to drop off clothes to school, Newsday reported.
Superhero Day was part of Long Beach High School's Senior Week. There were other thematic days during the week.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: captainunderpants; longbeach; longisland; superheroday; underpants; underwear
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To: Cagey
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:21:28 AM PDT
by
murphE
(These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
To: dead
I like them!
*but I like creative stuff.
They did a good job.
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:22:27 AM PDT
by
najida
(The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
To: Physicist
23
posted on
10/26/2006 9:23:02 AM PDT
by
seanmerc
To: flashbunny
You don't have to be psychic to know what the reactions to certain outfits is going to be.
I love the FReeper "school bashing" that goes on around here. If someone had complained about the what students were wearing and the article had been written from that point of view, FReepers would be outraged that the school was allowing students to dress that way. The Principal acted exactly the way he was supposed to. Those costumes aren't even close to being appropriate for a school setting. They knew that when they put them together.
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:24:46 AM PDT
by
MMcC
To: Cagey
My top three societal concerns:
- Terrorism
- Illegal immigration
- Captain Underpants Girls not being allowed to express themselves
To: Quilla
Cute idea. Oh, well...I guess they made a stir.
26
posted on
10/26/2006 9:29:49 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(Non-evangelical Atheist)
To: Cagey
The outfit would be provocative enough to warrant sending them home to change, I feel.
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:29:58 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(Idiot Muslims. They're just dying to have sex orgies.)
To: sgtbono2002
good thing they weren't Captain America or Wonder Woman.
all the red,white and blue could offend someone.
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:30:36 AM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
To: beaversmom
Super Hero DAy? They should have been dressed as Karl Rove or a United States Marine.
29
posted on
10/26/2006 9:32:15 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Oil Field Trash and proud of it, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast)
To: dead
Some girls shouldn't be nude. Even pretend.
To: Cagey; MotleyGirl70; Mr. Brightside
To: Cagey
They were dressed as Superman, Wonderwoman and other well-known superheroes. Wonderwoman? Isn't she an Amazon? Weren't they ...<gasp!> lesbians?
Wonder what the principal thinks about that? Or maybe he didn't think...just reacted.
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:34:45 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Mathemeticians are machines that turn coffee into theorems.)
To: IMissPresidentReagan
My concern is that these girls are seniors in high school and it seems as though this is their reading level? Or, perhaps, it was their reading level when they were in 4th or 5th grade and they remember the books fondly (as some adults fondly remember Dr. Seuss) ... Perhaps they have younger brothers or sisters in elementary school ...
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:35:35 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: tioga
Maybe they could have dressed as a Marine or something. Are you kidding? That would have gotten them expelled!
</sarcasm>
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:37:17 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Mathemeticians are machines that turn coffee into theorems.)
To: girlscout
Good heavens, I'd forgotten how good she looked ... today's silicone bimbo starlets just don't compare.
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:37:56 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Larry Lucido
"What's the deal with Aquaman? Could he go on land, or was he just restricted to water?"
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:38:23 AM PDT
by
Cagey
To: Think free or die
It is a distraction. I can assure you that any mail between the ages of 13 and graduation would not have heard one word in the classroom. They would be thinking about those girls.
Girls did not get suspended, or punished. They were only sent home to change into more appropriate attire. Kudos to the Principal for a reasonable solution to the problem. Shame on the parents for allowing their girls to go out dressed like that.
To: Cagey
No one dressed up as Carl Rove?
38
posted on
10/26/2006 9:38:58 AM PDT
by
Deguello
To: beaversmom
My top three societal concerns: Terrorism Illegal immigration Captain Underpants Girls not being allowed to express themselves I'll vote for any candidate that strongly advocates that teen girls not wear underpants. Wait, that doesn't sound quite right.
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:39:58 AM PDT
by
LexBaird
(98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
To: ArrogantBustard
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posted on
10/26/2006 9:41:53 AM PDT
by
IMissPresidentReagan
("My Friends we did it....we made a difference. ...All in all not bad, not bad at all." Pres. Reagan)
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