Posted on 04/30/2002 4:30:34 AM PDT by 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.
I'm sure you'll get over it pretty quickly ;)
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My thoughts exactly. Aside from a little more butt cheek, a thong is no more "revealing" than regular french cut or similar undies. They're not granny britches, but unless they're from Fredericks and missing some fabric, they'll cover as much as a skimpy bikini.
EXACTLYSuzi Creamcheese wears a thong & miniskirt to a school dance and gets gang-felt-up on the dance floor? Parents sue the school district for failing to keep such skanky activity from happening.
Vice Principal makes damn sure Suzi Creamcheese isn't wearing a thong? Parents sue the school district for violating Suzikins' "right" to be a "bang me" billboard for young adolescent boys.
The parents are the Mk 1 Mod 0 rockheads here, not the school.
If the skirt is too short, then the school should ask the girls to leave, or to change into a longer dress and return. There is absolutely no legitimate rational for lifting the dress to see what they otherwise could not see. You authoritarians are are dead wrong on this.
The State mandates that kids go to school and then, once there, deprives them of their Constitutional 4th Amendment Right. This further deprives the adolescents there right to recourse and rememdy. Yes, the Constitution applies to "We the People" not just "We the Adults." If the Constitution did not apply to everyone, then could the authoritarians not also deprive children of their Constitutionally protected Right to life and liberty?
You authoritarians never cease to amaze me with the imposition of your private will over another's protected Rights!
DITTO !!
LOL, girlfriend. Your secret's safe with us!
Our daughter dressed modestly, but the thought of her being touched by any school official, in a public forum, would certainly incur my wrath.
Was there a dress code outlining the length of skirts and/or what type of underwear is acceptable?
In law enforcement parlance, her actions constitute a strip search by merely exposing the students' underwear.
I'm not ready to give school officials that authority without specific probable cause and parental consent to do so.
To be graphic, did she check to ensure that the boys in attendance were wearing underwear at all. During a slow dance with an attractive young woman, I suspect the boy without underwear would be showing much more than the girl with whom he was dancing.
Wonderful speech, but completely wrong. See posts 68 and 78.
The remedy for girls wearing skirts that are too short is to send them home, not to grope and molest them. If lifting their skirts and eye-balling their "privates" is okay, then why stop there? What else can they do that is okay with you? Where does it stop and who decides? That is why we have a Constitution and Rights to privacy -- so authoritarians like you aren't the ones making the decisions for everyone else.
or, even more to the point, what of a young woman who's
skirt failed to meet this fascist's definition of 'proper length',
but was in fact wearing 'grannie drawers' underneath ?
would the public humiliation of her skirt being arbitrarily raised have been any less palpable ?
No dances.
Seriously. Why should a school be holding dances?
Now there's a job I *think* I could execute with perfection; up to (& maybe during) the massive coronary...
Yea; checking the thong undies on sweet, nubile, hard body-teens & accurately recording color & style isn't something entrusted to just anyone.
...ain't that right, Mud? :o)
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