Student Suspended For Wearing Condom Costume

[matcom]

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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Osceola High School administrators thought a student's Halloween costume was more trick than treat. So they suspended her.

Lanessa Riobe, 16, was told to go home Friday after wearing a T-shirt decorated with condoms. Lanessa said she decided on the costume after seeing safe-sex commercials on television.

"A lot of my friends are sexually active," Riobe told the Orlando Sentinel. "I tell them, if you're going to do it, be safe."

Riobe taped condoms to a white T-shirt and began passing them out to her classmates. Her first-period teacher alerted school administrators, who sent her home with a three-day suspension for class disruption. They also said she had an insolent attitude.

Osceola High principal Chuck Paradiso later reduced the suspension to one day.

"This is not acceptable," he said. "This is something you don't do in a public school."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/03/student_suspended_for_wearing_condom_costume/

[prolesunited]

1. Makes you wonder

"This is something you don't do in a public school"

Why the hell not?!?!? God forbid we give sexually active teen condoms so they can protect themselves from pregnancy and STDs.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Especially since OVER HALF of all new HIV cases are people under 25

Shit, I call what she was doing "community service," and she ought to put this on her vitae.

This school district needs to get that corncob out of its ass.

[GinaMaria]

7. ?

"This is something you don't do in a public school"
Shouldn't this read "This is something you don't do in a private school"

What they hell has happened in our schools?

[JohnKleeb]

3. lol thats great but she stole my idea but then again

she followed through on it. Go Lanessa Riobe!
:yourock:
I had this idea before about being a condom, I decided not to because they smell awful.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. She should be grateful

They they only suspended her, and didn't "paddle" her.

For a time there, I though it was the Official Sport of the Southern High School Principals' Association.

--bkl

[Maddy McCall]

5. They do it at my son's school, but I sent a letter...

to the principal telling her that I was emphatically against corporal punishment and if my son's behavior was so terrible as to mandate spanking, then they needed to call me first anyway, so that I could come in for conference.

Sad that schools can still do things that even the American Pediatrics Association strongly advises against.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Good resource

www.nospank.net

Excellent source of anti-CP information.

There is also a truly excellent anti-CP tract there for fundamentalist Christians, many of whom are enthusiastic spankers.

By the way, it's become almost impossible to search for studies on spanking on the Internet. If you use the word "spanking" or "paddling" in any search engine, all you get are thousands and thousands of porn sites. Maybe you should point this out to the spankmeisters at your son's school.

--bkl

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. Let me help you with their logic...

They think that if you don't talk about sex or educate them in safe sex, they won't want to have sex, that they won't know what it is. I grew up baptist, and everytime sex came up, it was said that if you have sex before marriage, you were going to hell, because God didn't tolerate that kind of thing.
In REALITY, a place the religious right doesn't like to visit all that often, kids are going to have sex if it's right for them. They aren't going to ask you and they aren't going to tell you about it. Teach them how to prevent pregnancy and disease by educating them in safe sex AND abstinance. They will find the path that is right for THEM. Not all kids are going to have sex...but MOST ARE. It's just something they need to get used to. Jerry Falwell is going to be the destruction of this country...NOT the saving grace. But just tell that to my mom.
Duckie

[kodi]

9. was priam's son a french trojan?

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