Teacher resigns over risque prom photo
Brett Coogle, 28, quit his job after Western High School administrators saw a photograph in which the English teacher was allegedly taking a bite from a female student's "candy" garter belt at the school's May 11 prom, a school district spokeswoman confirmed to ABC News.
"Some kids were passing around prom pictures, and a staff member saw a photo that raised some concern and showed it to the principal," said Lauren Roberts of the Jefferson County Public Schools.
"The photo allegedly showed him [Coogle] removing a candy garter belt with his teeth from a female student during the prom," Roberts said.
My brother-in-law sent me this one.
GIRLS AVOID COLLEGE PRESSURE BY HAVING 'PROM BABY' INSTEAD
DEAR ABBY: Please help me to warn your readers about an alarming trend happening in the teenage community: prom babies. I first heard about it while driving my teenage daughter to a lacrosse meet with several of her girlfriends. One girl in the car, "Carrie," said she hoped this year she could have a prom baby. The girls were discussing two former classmates from last year's lacrosse team who had been unable to begin college because they had both become mothers at 17.
Both had deliberately planned to get pregnant on prom night -- hence the term, "prom baby." Abby, both of the girls were studious and hard-working with bright futures ahead of them. One had been accepted to several Ivy League schools. Needless to say, their parents were devastated, and many adjustments had to be made for the new babies.
My daughter later told me that several of her other friends were considering trying to get pregnant near prom time so they, too, wouldn't have to deal with the pressures of going to college. Apparently, parents are less strict about their children's whereabouts on prom night and let their teens spend the night in a hotel or at mixed-gender sleepovers.......
I still trying to figure out who permits their underage child to do a mixed gender sleep over at a hotel. Moving right along with this story from Canada.
Prom night angst
"Prom's, like, really stressful," agreed Bryanna Morris, 16, who graduates this month from Villa Maria, a private girls' school.
Nabbing the all-important date isn't the only thing that keeps high school grads awake at night.
Deciding who gets included in limos and late-night party plans can lead to frayed friendships and hurt feelings.
"You see this group arguing in the cafeteria, it's about prom," said Morris.
"There were a lot of fights over who's in the limo, who's left out of the limo," chimed in Manuella Djuric, 17, who also attends Villa Maria. "Those are the stressful things everyone has been freaking out over since January."
These days of wine and orchid corsages are tense times for parents, too, said Gabriella Todi, whose daughter, Alexandra, is also graduating from Villa Maria.
"It's the excitement and the stress of running around for the dress and the shoes and the accessories."
The tab for clothes and tickets for the June 23 prom totalled $1,000, Gabriella Todi said.
What a waste of a $1000!
BHS Student Arrested at Prom For Carrying Concealed Gun
A Berkeley High School senior and her date were arrested Saturday at the senior prom in San Francisco for possession of a loaded gun.
Kyanna Roberson, 19, a Berkeley High student, and Emmanuel Richardson, 20, an East Bay resident, were charged by the San Francisco Police Department with possession of a loaded gun and concealed firearm and conspiracy.
Close to 600 students attended the annual high school event which was held at the Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchants Exchange Building at California Street in San Francisco, said Berkeley Police Department press officer Lt. Wesley Hester.
Berkeley Unified School District spokesperson Mark Coplan declined to comment on the case but said that incidents such as this were uncommon at proms.
“Most kids spend a lot of money for this one night and they don’t want anything to go wrong,” he said.
BHS safety officers were at the site to check students tickets and their bags, Lt. Hester said.
“When Roberson’s bag was searched, the officers found a loaded .25 caliber handgun in it,” he said. “She was immediately arrested by SFPD. During the situation her date Richardson stepped forward and admitted that he had handed her the gun to avoid detection. He was then taken under arrest. He made a statement during the arrest that he had been carrying the loaded gun for protection from gang rivalry between Berkeley and Oakland.”
Lt. Hester added that four to five unrelated fights had also broken out at the prom on Saturday night but nobody had been seriously hurt.
Richland County investigators bust high-schoolers who decided to drink on prom night
This prom season, Richland County investigators arrested more than a dozen high-schoolers during checks on hotels known for after-parties, and in this case parking lots outside the prom.
Lt. Ruben Santiago says, "The students know there will be alcohol enforcement teams out trying to prevent and encourage good decision making."
Prior to their prom patrol, officers got the word out.
And this could be why. Last prom season, a nationwide study found close to 300 teens died in alcohol-related traffic accidents.
This is my favorite one.
MHS Students Plan Pot Smoking on Prom Night
A group of Mamaroneck High School students appeared to be making plans for heavy drinking and pot smoking at the prom on June 8.
The email included a copy of a May 28 message from the social networking website Facebook.com in which an MHS senior contacts 18 friends with the following query: “ hi everyone. most of you know that i have been planning to buy a fat bag of nugs for our beloved prom weekend. who is interested in gettin in on it?” The poster suggests a “half ounce of good but not outstanding herb for 150” [dollars] would be sufficient. He tells the group, “its fine stuff i tried it last night and i figure it would do since we'd be drunk anyway.”
Within an hour, six friends reply “im down.”
So, the next time someone asks me about my homeschool kids missing the prom, my response will be "Yes, isn't it great!"
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7 comments:
Well... those are extreme examples. The truth is most people go to prom, dance, and have a good time. I went to three myself (junior, senior, and I was invited by a senior the year after I graduated). While some blow hundreds and hundreds of dollars on prom, most just work and/or save for enough for the get-up, dinner and tickets. Some also have raging parties afterward, but most just go bowling or end up having a late meal at IHOP or something.
In other words, the kids who typically end up doing stupid stuff do so and most of the kids who usually don't, don't. Just like anything else.
Though I must say that "prom baby" thing is new to me even (and I came from the county with the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the state of Texas). That sounds like prom is incidental to it, not the cause. Maybe if parents didn't lay so much pressure about college or, heck, TALKED with their daughters about what's on their minds it wouldn't happen so much.
The truth is a lot of public school students DON'T GET ASKED TO THE PROM.
I spent Prom night sobbing; because no one asked me to the prom.
Prom is great for the popular kids; it's awful for those who don't have steady boyfriends and may or may not get asked for a date.
Not a Prom Queen
There are lots of homeschool groups that sponsor various types of proms, depending on resources and desires. In the Dallas Metroplex area, there is a hugely popular hs prom: http://www.christianhomeschoolprom.org/home.php
Parents run it, parents are welcome to visit the party, so, tho' I haven't been involved with it yet, it seems to be a very happy alternative to the abuses seen and reported across the country at ps proms.
I never attended prom either, though I don't think it bothered me. I literally can't remember a thing about it. Few in the group I hung out with (the nerdy kids) did that sort of thing, so it never seemed to matter.
My kid's only 3 months old, and these articles make me nervous. But hopefully I'll raise her to love God so these won't be issues in our family... pray for us!
There are always two sides to a story. I attended both of my proms and loved them both. I went to a party at a friend's house after the second one and we just sat around talking and eating snacks her mother had prepared for us. Lots of people go to the prom, enjoy the dressing up, the special time and that is it. Then there are those that don't get to go for a variety of reasons, and that stinks. Like many of the 'fun' parts of school, there are good things and bad things that go on with the prom. I remember feeling like Cinderella (though my Southern belle gowns would definitely be out of fashion now, they were very popular in the 80s.)
I hope when my children get old enough that our local homeschool community will set up something along those lines without the angst. I do think it is unfortunate that our society has to keep doing bigger and better. It used to be for someone to show up at a limo was just about unheard of, now it seems more commonplace. We might have spent 200.00 on prom night (including dinner, tickets and cloths), but now it is a much more costly event.
As a society, we need to stop this habit we have of getting bigger and bigger. Thanks for sharing the articles and providing food for thought!
>As a society, we need to stop this habit we have of getting bigger and bigger.
Good point. I agree.
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