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[–] sara@lemmy.today 341 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

What does shaking your ass at a private party have to do with your academics? This is the dumbest situation. This poor girl.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 216 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/07/louisiana-student-punished-by-school-for-dancing-at-private-party

was seen dancing at a private homecoming afterparty on 30 September, behind a friend who was twerking.

she wasn’t even the one twerking

[–] sara@lemmy.today 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For fucks sake. I hope her family calls the ACLU.

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seems like the easiest way to get into a really good school would be to sue, whip up a media frenzy, and frame it through a feminist lens. Write an essay about overcoming adversity by standing up for what is right, no matter the cost.

BOOM easy admissions.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Yeah if the school tried to honor what the principal is doing that will be a PR nightmare for them. Honor the scholarship, admit her, do what’s right

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I’d get the dance team members in on it for vaguely impugning their reputations, because when asked why nothing happened to them, the answer more or less had the implied subtext “that’s fine for them because we expect them to act like hoes, but you’re our hood ornament and should behave better.”

edit: in case anyone is unclear on my position regarding twerking

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree. She’s literally getting punished for having fun with her friends at a dance party. And her friends should get the same restitution because they were also, having fun. God forbid this incredibly intelligent girl go on to be anything but an avenue for childbirth, or her friends don’t follow the same path

[–] joystick@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It sounds like a religious private school, so good luck.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its Walker High School, a public school.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_High_School_(Walker,_Louisiana)

"They basically told me that I should be ashamed of myself," Timonet told a local news outlet. "That I wasn't basically following God's ideals, which made me cry even more."

The principal inserted their religion into their job at a public school.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well that sounds like a damn easy win for a court case.

[–] Rally@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

It's crazy. She lost benefits over something somebody else did. I can't make sense of it. The dogma and brining faith and religious righteousness into everything is out on hand and needs to stop

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

This is infuriating.

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 194 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It has everything to do with it because god said so:

"They basically told me that I should be ashamed of myself," Timonet told a local news outlet. "That I wasn't basically following God's ideals, which made me cry even more." "I felt like my life was over."

Guys, it’s the same rules as any underaged closet atheist. Study your ass off, become financially independent, then twerk in front of your god fearing scholarship committee

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

Sounds like someone dodged a bullet! Bullet-dodge ass-dance!

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Oh that really pisses me off. The poor girl!

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Christianity is cancer. My religion supports your right to twerk.

[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am interested in your religion

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Satanism is only necessary because religion is cancer though. Just like cancer, we need to use another thing that kills to kill it. I'm 100% in agreement with Satanism's tenants, but it's because they're just humanist ideals wrapped in the garb of religion to use religion as a tool.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All religions are tools. Saying "religion is cancer" overlooks all of the good things that people get out of religion, such as a community with shared values that helps each other. If you can have a religion without superstition and dogma, where's the harm? It's not religion that's cancer. It's superstition and dogma.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

You ain’t from around FoxNews Parish, is ya?

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