Girls Kicked Out of School For Costumes
This is hilarious! These girls are geniuses and their principal is an idiot. What do you expect kids to wear on Superhero day? Capes, tights and your undies showing, right? So what’s wrong with dressing up as captain underpants? They didn’t have any more skin showing than any other superhero costume.
Anyway, kudos to you girls who stood your ground and refused to take off your costumes and left the school capes flapping in the wind!
And too bad I already have a Halloween costume because this one rocks! Go Captain Underpants!
This sounds like a job for Captain Underpants!
If the captain’s creator, author Dav Pilkey, were to write the story of the conflict Wednesday at Long Beach High School, it might open like this: The evil school principal went insane with horror when he saw three girls strolling brazenly through hallways looking like caped crusaders. Naked caped crusaders.
But in reality, principal Nicholas Restivo is simply an administrator who, on Superhero Day, had a problem with the way the three seniors were dressed. He issued them an ultimatum: Change clothes, cover up or leave school.
At the root of the clash was Captain Underpants, chubby superhero star of popular children’s books in which he battles talking toilets and foes such as Professor Poopypants.
Chelsea Horowitz, Ashley Imhof and Eliana Levin, all 17, arrived at school Wednesday as the captain: They wore beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs. Red capes flared from their backs.
Around them, students milled about dressed as Superman, Wonderwoman — even Quail Man, the nonviolent hero from the cartoon "Doug."
Superhero Day is part of Long Beach High’s Senior Week. Monday was Switch Day, where boys dressed like girls and vice versa. Tuesday was Nerd Day. Thursday is Spirit Day, where they wear school colors, blue and white. Friday is Pirate Day. But the Captain Underpants getup didn’t meet the approval of principal Restivo. He described the costume as "tight-fitting, flesh-colored leotards and leggings."
"Yes, I know they weren’t naked," he said. "But the appearance was that they were naked."
The outfits looked so much like nude skin that they caused a commotion among students, Restivo said. The girls and their parents all said otherwise. "They’re not see-through or anything," Horowitz said. "All the teachers thought it was cute."
Restivo said they could have worn gym shorts or called someone to bring clothes to school for them.
The girls said a wardrobe change wasn’t an option and they felt forced to leave school — which they did.
Horowitz, an honor student and softball player, said they didn’t want to wear "someone else’s hand-me-downs" and their parents weren’t available to bring clothes to the school.
Captain Underpants is a pot-bellied character who wears nothing but a toothy grin, red cape and tighty whiteys.
"I didn’t know which superhero it was, not that it mattered," Restivo said. He pointed out that other students wore underwear on the outside, but on top of pants or shorts. That was acceptable. Via Newsday
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9 opinions for Girls Kicked Out of School For Costumes
GetSheila
Oct 26, 2006 at 9:46 am
LOL! If I had worn that back in the day, I would’ve been kick out for sure. In 7th grade, I was a pommerette and our pep-advisor required us to dress up for Halloween to promote school spirit. I dressed as an elf, with a belt holding up a giant pillow (as a belly) under a giant shirt over tights. Another teacher thought dressing up was disruptive to the learned school atmosphere and made everyone is her class take off their costumes. Like, what the hell was I supposed to wear? I ended up with a giant shirt sans belly over tights. What was the point? And this is the teacher that took field trips to AND DRESSED UP FOR the Renaissance Faire each year. Sheesh.
bnpositive
Oct 26, 2006 at 10:58 am
My son has been reading the book highlighted in this story for a couple of weeks now. He thinks it’s hilarious.
Ashley Z.
Oct 26, 2006 at 1:59 pm
That is soooo hilarious! I love those books!
Mindi
Oct 26, 2006 at 11:10 pm
If another student other than a softball honor student did this, we would never have heard of this story. The person would have been kicked out of school.
Why don’t athlete honor students have to follow the same rules as everyone else?
lbhs senior
Oct 31, 2006 at 9:03 pm
you dont enevn know the right story. the principal told them to change or put on shorts and they said no and left. he never told them they had to leave. also thisgirls are just tring to look cool by getting “kicked out of school” for wearing this costume. and last but not least no one want to see horowitz ina skin tight shirt. f^*kin gross.
and by the way shes not an honor student
abcdefg
Oct 29, 2007 at 4:13 pm
my friend and i were planning on doing this at school for halloween.
now that i heard this story i’m a little scared. =/
hopefully this wont happen to us.
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Mr. Joynes
Dec 31, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Three cheers for the system trying and failing to control the youth!
Ethan
Oct 13, 2008 at 5:27 pm
that is gay
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