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.
given spandex uniforms these days, a girl can't be too careful, ehh ?
There's nothing particularly slutty about thongs - they are worn with sleek clothing to eliminate embarrassing panty lines.
What's really indecent is lifting girls skirts to check their panties.
The lawsuits surrounding this event will proceed EVEN AFTER there are out of court settlements. People don't like having their daughters molested, or their chastity or morality denigrated or even questioned, it won't stand in civil soceity.
The "she deserved what she got, because the way SHE was dressed, she was just BEGGING for it..." won't fly in the USA. Perhaps in talibanist Afganistan.
Checking for presence and type of panties, will NEVER be tolerated in American society. The person who undertook this ill-advised activity WILL very likely be charged and very possibly convicted with a sex crime. I suspect a long term mental institution status awaits the perpetrator.
Count on it.
I sign off for WEEKS at a time particularly when work calls me away. Not everyone signs in all day, every day, every week, month and year. Some of us, have jobs that dictate our appearances places other than here.
Yep. That's where I went too. I didn't mind it at the time, but now I wonder wether that may be where my basicly contrarian nature comes from. :)
Well, I guess girls shouldn't shave their legs. I mean, guys might think you want to have sex if your legs aren't hairy, right?
And that social decay is due to risque underwear!
BINGO! We have a winner here folks. Outstanding post B Knotts.
I'd really like to see someone answer this question. Personally, I think we should do away with public schools, but I know that idea won't go over well with some Freepers.
But what possible justification is there for forcing taxpayers to fund a dance for other people's children?
What really gets me are those of you who say "I would sue them if they did this to my daughter!". What I think they should do is have people at the dances with video cameras, go around videoing all the bare-asses flashing, then show it at the next P.T. O. meeting!!!
BOR, with all due respect, providing for the Common Defense means having citizens educated enough to create,maintian, and use the weapons of modern warfare.
Why do you assume there would not be enough educated citizens for the military without public schools?
No one is suggesting that we get rid of private schools, home schooling, or tutors. If people didn't have to pay taxes for public schools, they could use that money for private alternatives.
I'll admit, a small percentage of people would probably go uneducated without public schools, but those same people probably aren't getting much out of the current system. Even without public schools, though, I think we'd be able to find enough engineers and mechanics to support a modern army.
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