Posted on 05/02/2013 2:39:31 PM PDT by presidio9
Two San Diego Unified school board members want to review the level of punishment handed down to 31 students at Scripps Ranch High School this week over a video made at school that depicts "twerking," a suggestive manner of dancing.
School board member Scott Barnett said Thursday that he plans to request that the twerking incident and the student punishments be discussed in closed session at Tuesday's board meeting.
"I want to make sure I am comfortable that the facts and activity warrant the consequences," Barnett said in a statement.
San Diego Unified board member Kevin Beiser, whose district includes the high school, voiced similar concerns Wednesday.
A group of high school students was suspended from Scripps Ranch High School Tuesday after the video appeared on You Tube. Some of the students are seniors and may not be able to attend prom or walk during commencement ceremonies.
Parents and students said the students were told not to return to school until Friday.
Jack Brandais, a spokesman for the San Diego Unified School District, said he could not discuss student discipline matters.
The video apparently violates the school’s sexual harassment policy that prohibits verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Twerking involves the shaking and twisting of hips in a suggestive dance move.
According to NBC 7, students in a broadcast journalism class used school equipment to record and add music to a video of the group of girls twerking while doing handstands.
Many students were talking about it all day long on Twitter, with some suggesting the punishment went too far and others joking about twerking. One apparent student, whose Twitter handle is @sopjoa69, tweeted: “Suspended for twerking. What do I do? Twerk. At the beach. I twerk at the beach.”
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Do the gator, circa 1960s.
I just threw up in my mouth a little....so much for lunch today.......and maybe dinner.....
Is the person that wrote this article still in high school?
“group” is singular, therefore “a group...was,” not a group....were.”
Your daughter would probably say she hates you and run away from home. Kids are like that these days.
I didn’t much care for that part of English class.
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