Thong-Wearing Teens Kicked Out Of Dance

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[KneelBeforeZod]

Thong-Wearing Teens Kicked Out Of Dance

A group of parents are calling for the resignation of Rancho Bernardo High School's vice principal, claiming she enforced underwear checks at a school dance, 10News reported.

The dance occurred Friday and vice principal Rita Wilson turned away girls who were wearing thongs, the parent said.

Kim Teal is among the several parents angry with Wilson (pictured, right).

"First thing (my daughter) said when she got into the car was, 'Mom, it was horrible last night. You have to fight this,'" Teal told 10News.

According to parent Alane Garvik, girls who arrived at the dance wearing short skirts were immediately asked: "What kind of underwear do you have on?"

When Garvik's daughter red-facedly announced that she was wearing thong underwear she was told to "go home and put on appropriate underwear," according to Garvik.

Teal's daughter made it in and claims to have witnessed faculty lifting the skirts of girls to assure that the offending underwear was going nowhere near the dance floor.

"Well, I just saw ... a line of people and the vice principal, Mrs. Wilson, she was checking to see what the girls were wearing under their dresses. And she was literally lifting up their skirts and embarrassing them in front of everyone else," one student told 10News.

Parents and students have placed the blame on Wilson, for spearheading the thong underwear checks, even though there is nothing in the school dress code against them.

"It's not their right to know what kind of underwear these kids have," Garvik told 10News.

10News contacted school officials, who all declined to go on camera. But Principal Paul Gentle did say that he is "looking into the situation."

Parents are now asking for Wilson to resign.

Gentle said that even while enforcing the school dress code, it is not proper procedure to ask students what they are wearing underneath their clothes.

He told 10News that he plans to meet with parents sometime this week.

[KneelBeforeZod]

[JAWs]

Semper ubi sub ubi!

[THEUPMAN]

lesbian pedophile?

[cardinal4]

More evidence that we are no longer a superpower.

[Chad Fairbanks]

To quote Jordan, "Hey, as long as they Hanes."

[codebreaker]

Didn't I see this on Showtime or Skinimax last weekend?

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

One would think that their dates would be doing the underwear check.

[Marauder]

This appears to give the term "vice" principal a whole new meaning ...

[tomkat]

*chuckle*

[Publius6961]

How many respondents have children?
What age group are we talking about?
And the problem with the concept is?

This thread presently is long on "knee jerk" and totally devoid of thought.
There might have been a better way to accomplish the check, but I like the basic precaution.
And I firmly believe that as a local issue, community standards should prevail.
Why should the pervs in LA or NY (or their exports) decide?

[codebreaker]

It must be a difficult job checking young girls thong panties all day, lifting skirts and such..

[SkyPilot]

Is she also the Girl's Basketball Coach?

[flying Elvis]

Thounds like the thame old thong and dance to me.

[Domestic Church]

What kind of mother buys thong underwear for her daughter? What kind of mother allows her daughter to go to a dance in a short skirt wearing thong underwear? I immediately think of Chandra Levy and her parents and shudder. I am sure they would have revised their childrearing methods, if they only knew back then, what the path ahead was for their daughter. Thong underwear belongs on the honeymoon...not in the highschool.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I volunteer for this important duty...it's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Personally, I think it's the parent's responsibility, certainly not the schools... But then, I'm weird, so...

[codebreaker]

Do they have training courses for this in Grad school?

[em2vn]

The dress code would reflect the community standards not these actions of a vice principal.Tell how lifiting the skirts of school girls furthers the education process. Isn't it the demented actions of an out of control person who shouldn't be allowed within the walls of a school without an escort, that are in question here?

[flying Elvis]

I have found my calling. I am joining the thong police.

[07055]

When Garvik's daughter red-facedly announced that she was wearing thong underwear she was told to "go home and put on appropriate underwear," according to Garvik.

"But if thongs are appropriate attire for the White House, why can't I wear one to the dance?"