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Principal Forces 3 Girls Dressed as Captain Underpants to Leave School
The cover from one of the "Captain Underpants" series of books by author Dav Pilkey, a cross between a cartoon and chapter book, is one of the offerings by Scholastic Inc. meant to stimulate reading in children. Captain Underpants has battled talking toilets and Professor Poopypants, but he was no match for a high school principal who banned students from dressing up as the children's book character. (AP Photo/Scholastic Inc.)10-27-2006 6:52 AM
LONG BEACH, N.Y. -- Captain Underpants has battled talking toilets and Professor Poopypants, but he was no match for a high school principal who banned students from dressing up as the children's book character.
Long Beach High School Principal Nicholas Restivo took the action Wednesday after three 17-year-old girls wore beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes on the school's Superhero Day.
"Yes, I know they weren't naked," Restivo said. "But the appearance was that they were naked."
Chelsea Horowitz, one of the dressed-up girls, had a problem with that logic.
"They're not see-through or anything," said Horowitz, an honor student and softball player. "All the teachers thought it was cute."
But Restivo decreed that no underpants would be visible in his hallways.
Horowitz and fellow seniors Ashley Imhof and Eliana Levin went home to change back into their mortal attire
The cover from one of the "Captain Underpants" series of books by author Dav Pilkey, a cross between a cartoon and chapter book, is one of the offerings by Scholastic Inc. meant to stimulate reading in children. Captain Underpants has battled talking toilets and Professor Poopypants, but he was no match for a high school principal who banned students from dressing up as the children's book character. (AP Photo/Scholastic Inc.)10-27-2006 6:52 AMLONG BEACH, N.Y. -- Captain Underpants has battled talking toilets and Professor Poopypants, but he was no match for a high school principal who banned students from dressing up as the children's book character.
Long Beach High School Principal Nicholas Restivo took the action Wednesday after three 17-year-old girls wore beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes on the school's Superhero Day.
"Yes, I know they weren't naked," Restivo said. "But the appearance was that they were naked."
Chelsea Horowitz, one of the dressed-up girls, had a problem with that logic.
"They're not see-through or anything," said Horowitz, an honor student and softball player. "All the teachers thought it was cute."
But Restivo decreed that no underpants would be visible in his hallways.
Horowitz and fellow seniors Ashley Imhof and Eliana Levin went home to change back into their mortal attire
