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The principal of a high school in New York state sent three 17 year old girls home from school on Wednesday for showing up in their underpants. The entire male student body, and some of the females, and a couple of creepy teachers were very disappointed. It seems the school was allowing students to show up in haloween costumes and the three girls in question were dressed as "Captain Underpants".

The costumes included skin-tone leotards and stockings under white underpants. The girls were covered, why were they sent home? Is even the suggestion of something inappropriate going to become a problem now?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061026/D8L0B7M01.html

Sounds like yet another case of Lawsuit Avoidance Syndrome (LAS). I assume they were clean underpants?

Who gives a shit. You guys get all exercised about the strangest things!!! :(

Pfhhh. Americans are power wussies. At our Year 12 breakfast, one guy came as Jesus; just a loincloth and a beard.

*steals idea*

Mwahahaha

Pfhhh. Americans are power wussies. At our Year 12 breakfast, one guy came as Jesus; just a loincloth and a beard.

Hell in 6th from I was part of a full monty routine as part of a review we did for the local old people at chistmas. No-one batted an eyelid and the old guys found it funny.

Hell in 6th from I was part of a full monty routine as part of a review we did for the local old people at chistmas. No-one batted an eyelid and the old guys found it funny.

Yeah as a guy I love says

"The Puritans. Our ancestors. People so uptight the English kicked them out. How fucking anal do you have to be for the English to say 'get the fuck out!'"
~~ Robin Williams

Bunch of fucking prudes

Meh...we had one guy get sent home for wearing a skirt...I think, anyway...might have been a kilt. I know we had one guy who wore kilts from time to time, but he was kind of odd anyway. So sending home people for dressign as Captain Underpants is hardly a shocker to me.

After all, I went to a school where the principal locked the place down for what felt like forever because of what was believed to be a bomb; it turns out it was actually a science project. I'm not sure if I laughed or groaned.

"All the teachers thought it was cute."


Yeah...I bet they did... :rolleyes:

Schools can do anything they want if they feel something detracts from the learning enviroment.

Meh...we had one guy get sent home for wearing a skirt...I think, anyway...might have been a kilt. I know we had one guy who wore kilts from time to time, but he was kind of odd anyway. So sending home people for dressign as Captain Underpants is hardly a shocker to me.



There was a guy a few years younger than me who often wore a skirt to school. An actual skirt. I'm not sure about the kids in his year, but no one I knew of ever batted an eyelid at him and the teachers didn't really care.

Meh...we had one guy get sent home for wearing a skirt...I think, anyway...might have been a kilt. I know we had one guy who wore kilts from time to time, but he was kind of odd anyway. So sending home people for dressign as Captain Underpants is hardly a shocker to me.

After all, I went to a school where the principal locked the place down for what felt like forever because of what was believed to be a bomb; it turns out it was actually a science project. I'm not sure if I laughed or groaned.

Hang on, they lock you in the school if they think there's a bomb?


What. The. Fuck?

Schools can do anything they want if they feel something detracts from the learning enviroment.

They declared a "Super Hero Day" somehow I think there are tones of costumes that "Detract from the learning enviroment"

The principal of a high school in New York state sent three 17 year old girls home from school on Wednesday for showing up in their underpants. The entire male student body, and some of the females, and a couple of creepy teachers were very disappointed. It seems the school was allowing students to show up in haloween costumes and the three girls in question were dressed as "Captain Underpants".

The costumes included skin-tone leotards and stockings under white underpants. The girls were covered, why were they sent home? Is even the suggestion of something inappropriate going to become a problem now?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061026/D8L0B7M01.html

They should have gone home, and got dressed up as Superman. Then, on returning, they should have taken pictures, and used them as the basis for their lawsuit... superman has 'underpants' outside his leotard, but his leotard isn't flesh coloured - so, when they were allowed to continue wearing the Superman costumes, they'd have had basis for some kind of legal action, I'm sure.

Schools can do anything they want if they feel something detracts from the learning enviroment.

The school was having a superhero day, I would imagine that the 'learning environment' was already pretty well disrupted. The head master was just being a puritan asshole.

The school was having a superhero day, I would imagine that the 'learning environment' was already pretty well disrupted. The head master was just being a puritan asshole.

Beat you to it! :)

What?! Got sent home for dressing up like Captain Underpants? But Captain Underpants is cool!

Maybe the principal did it to ensure that no one found out that he really is Captain Underpants... :D

http://www.scholastic.co.uk/zone/images/book%20zone/fiction8-12/captain-underpants_logo.jpg


Could a girl really pull that off?

Beat you to it! :)

Dammit, my connection is lagging like hell today.

http://www.scholastic.co.uk/zone/images/book%20zone/fiction8-12/captain-underpants_logo.jpg


Could a girl really pull that off?

If 17 year old girls want to try then it's fine with me.

Hang on, they lock you in the school if they think there's a bomb?


What. The. Fuck?

They put the school under lockdown while people investigated. Why they did that I wasn't entirely sure, considering they had a bomb threat called in at one point in time and sent everyone home for the day. And the bomb threat called in was right around the first anniversary of Columbine; the science project was not.

It does, however, make me wonder if the person whose project it was changed their focus into "How the Idiots Who Run This Place Mistook This For a Bomb." I would have given it an A.