Apparently this girl wears a prom dress that the school deems to be too short and too revealing. So she is suspended for three days. Normally this would not be news, but if you read the whole story the eyebrows begin to rise and you have to go, "Whaaaa-?"
Of the 352 students, 18 violated the policy, yet this girl was the only one suspended. Why? Because the other 17 senior girls chose the alternative punishment...getting paddled by the male principal. The dress wasn't even that bad but I find it interesting that the male principal gets to point out all the hot chicks in revealing dresses and spank them.
Meh, she had some spillage issues with the top, and they stayed away from filming how short the dress is, or how short she was wearing it.
About the hanky-spanky-principle, that would be a firing offense in any Texas school. Only same sex corporal punishment here. If it is not done same sex, it is witnessed by a female teacher or councilor.
The bottom was see-through and looked like a negligee.[/QUOTE]
She's just expressing her sexuality Chaz! Why won't you let the high school girl express her sexuality with her skanky dress?
But really, my daughter would have to bribe me with giant bars of gold to be let out of the house with a dress like that or hell, the majority of "prom" dresses I see girls wearing today. It's prom, not the hooker of the year awards.
#18
Philosopher B.
She looks like a damn tooth-fairy.
#19
Ezeran
Is paddling seriously still legal there?
#20
Fun Size
I think a paddling was over the top, but having seen the dress do believe that she should have been slapped by Tim Gunn.
Also, having had several complaints, the paddling punishment has been discontinued. Next year, girls who violate the dress code will be forced to shower together while the principal looks on and masturbates furiously, which is somehow slightly less creepy.
#21
sixpackshaker
About paddling, they are seniors with 2 months left of their high school careers. There is no real punishment you can hit a senior with, especially after class rankings have been released to prospective colleges. So give them the option of a swat on the ass or 3 days out of class. The upside to the paddling is that it is over quickly, and will not affect your final grades. If you are suspended for 3 days, you run the risk of the kid missing a major test and failing for the period. Paddling is quite rare, I don't think I've heard of any kid over the 9th grade getting them in the time that I was teaching. But the 9th grade boys got a lot of swats. So much so that I started calling this one 9th grade principle the Designated Hitter.
It's presented as online news, but Houston TV news is a circus anyway.
The links that come up in Google News are bizarre. One of the links says it was a news story posted "12 hours ago" but the link is to a completely different story from 2008.
Another is to "Link Love -- Spankings for Prom Sluts; Beginner's Guide to Role Play" and I'm not about to follow it to find out.
I really can't understand the punishment for violating the prom dress code. If they're not dressed appropriately, don't let them attend the prom. Why should there be anything beyond that?
#31
Kitty Sinatra
Okay, I followed the video to its source. You'll notice that one (if not both) of the earlier links list CNN as their source. So I went to CNN, and they list an Alabama station as their source, and it looks like it stops there - makes sense that it would, right? That station has the video and lists it (in their search results) as having last been modified March 31.
It's presented as online news, but Houston TV news is a circus anyway.
The links that come up in Google News are bizarre. One of the links says it was a news story posted "12 hours ago" but the link is to a completely different story from 2008.
Another is to "Link Love -- Spankings for Prom Sluts; Beginner's Guide to Role Play" and I'm not about to follow it to find out.
I really can't understand the punishment for violating the prom dress code. If they're not dressed appropriately, don't let them attend the prom. Why should there be anything beyond that?[/QUOTE]
That is what I am wondering. Why don't they just turn them away at the door?
#33
Fun Size
Because they weren't gay?
#34
North_Ranger
Paddling or suspension = bad.
That dress...
#35
Shawn
I love her statement of "What Cleavage?"
You could lose a football in that crevice.
#36
Vytamindi
"I was so excited because it was my senior prom and I'd never been to a senior prom, so I was excited," hurp durp
Bullshit on all of this. She knew what she was getting into. If I were going to shell out a lot of money for a dress, I would show an administrator the dress for approval. Even easier with her dress being purchased off the internet. Problem solved with one click.
I could certainly lose an evening in there . . . wait.
*sigh*
I'll just go sit with Icarus.
#38
HCGLNS
Hmmn, I'd say that dress was bought because is hides the belly.
#39
phil
Doesn't seem that bad. The paddling is just horribly stupid though, the principal basically legally molested those girls.
#40
Kitty Sinatra
Yeah. I've now watched the video and I still haven't seen or heard any mention that the principal meted out the punishment. Unless I just wasn't paying close attention, y'all are assuming that it was the principal.
#41
Shawn
What I want to know is why the "paddling" isn't getting more press.