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.
oh lordie, just when this ridiculous thread was about to die down ...
now ya just had to go and bring the devil's sexual predilections into it!
next we'll have the homo advocates barging in, then more church folks,
and then, god forbid, the libertarians keeping the whole pot boiling ...
this one may never end !
Who cares if it's a constitutional right or not? The school has no right to dictate to you what kind of underwear you do. If I wear bright red bikini does that mean that I'm worse than the girl wearing the white granny panties?
So I'm a slut because I've worn a thong underneath dress suits? Hell, if I wear em with my jeans am I a slut?
Thongs are The Devil's Panties, and that's what most red-blooded American men love best about them. The issue here is whether or not schools have the constitutional authority to forbid certain behaviors in school or at school-sanctioned events. They do---there's a whole body of Supreme Court decisions to back it up. If this wasn't in school or it wasn't a school-sponsored event, there'd be no event here.The simple fact is that high school students check a few "basic rights" at the schoolhouse door.
The simple fact is that high school students check a few "basic rights" at the schoolhouse door.
Why aren't lacy bras the devil's bras? Should schools make girls lift up their shirts to make sure girls aren't wearing Wonderbra's or other push up bras or water bras, etc?
well obviosly, any slut that would wear thongs has a lack of morals such as would lead her to being a junkie
(whether she was ever subjected to a skirt search or not), and once she takes the inevitable step to junkie,
who knows what evil ...
foflmao !
wkwe - courtesy ping, since i used your line
Yes! Panty lines will prove your virginity!! Through away those chastity belts girls and grab your girdles! We're going for a ride!
hey, easy there !
water bras have saved many a good woman from the dreaded front/back labeling !
speaks from experience...
[flame suit]
Well, I, for one, am not going to let that happen. I love my country, and if that's what it takes, so be it.
;)
btw sir, are we headed to cheeseville yet ?
my moose usually knows, but he's at lunch...
Lacy bras aren't the devil's bras---sheer ones from Victoria's Secret are. And come now, schools shouldn't make girls lift up their shirts to police their bras.The issue here was one of short skirts and thong panties at a school dance. Even though the story doesn't tell the backstory, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what was probably happening before all this went down: the school probably had a couple of instances at school dances where short skirts over thongs led to a lot of visible ass and a lot of raging hormones and inappropriate public behavior and all that kind of happy horsesh*t---hell, I was a teenager less than 15 years ago myself, I know what goes on. Stuff, in fact, that may be actionable and the school held liable for (use your imagination).
So the VP or whomever probably set and circulated a policy forbidding thongs under short skirts at the next dance. NBFD.
The VP was probably overzealous if in fact she did lift skirts to perform a panty check, but she's certainly w/i her rights as a school administrator to make that sort of rule and enforce it. See general_re's posts on this thread for more info.
then THAT is my problem with all this !
[slaps forehead]
when i was a teenager, girls wore those hideous platform shoes
that put all but the sub-4 footers out of reach, thong or no ...
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