Student Will Not Be Given Credit For Job At Hooters

[matcom]

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A 17-year-old high school senior working at a Hooters won't get class credit for her job because the restaurant, known for its waitresses in tight T-shirts and hot pants, is too racy, school district officials decided Thursday.

Laura Williams wanted her hostess job, for which she wears long pants and a collared shirt, to count as part of a work-study program that lets students leave school early so they can work for vocational course credit.

Williams plans to keep the job and give up the credit.

She and her father had asked the school board to overrule the school superintendent's decision that Hooters is an inappropriate workplace for the Effingham County High School program.

All five members of the county school board voted down the restaurant.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/02/05/student_wont_get_credit_for_hooters_job/

[Loonman]

1. That's lame

Pompous prigs.

[GOPisEvil]

2. You have got to be kidding me!

Like she's learning NOTHING about the restaurant business...whatever you think of their overt sexuality, it's still a legitimate business, and a successful one.

I hope Laura opens a restaurant in Savannah and denies entry to these prudes!

[Brewman_Jax]

3. Absolutely ridiculous!

They shouldn't be able to deny the credit because of her choice of workplace. She did the work, she should get the credit. To those board members I say

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I think it's EFFING ridiculous -

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sorry

couldn't miss out on a poor pun offa the name of the school

"Effingham County High School"

:shrug:

[MissMillie]

5. Since when do students get school credit for jobs? (n/t)

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[GOPisEvil]

6. Work-study vocational credits have been around for years.

My high school in the ass-backward Texas Public School System had them, and I graduated in 1986.

[mac56]

7. Voc-ed programs have been around for decades.

Just as they've become more productive and better organized, they've also come under greater fire from state and local governments.

[Katarina]

8. I graduated in 1983

in North Carolina and in my school it was called DECA.

Did a quick google and found this site: http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlsis/let/wideca.html

I think it's just wrong that this girl isn't going to get credit for working. I just love these schools that make up the rules as they go along and constantly force their morals on the entire community.

[Loonman]

9. Work study is great for people unsure about college

Who's folks either can't afford college or don't want to be saddled with loans.

[geniph]

10. Good heavens, it's not as if she's working in a peep show!

I could see them being taken aback if she were stripping or doing table dances or something, but hostessing in a restaurant is perfectly legitimate work, and it's not even topless. How absurdly prudish!

[commander bunnypants]

11. Sheesh

Work is Work-IMHO

DDQM

[HEyHEY]

12. A job's a job - Jack Arnold

What a crock...if anything working in a place like that the girl would learn a lot more about life too.