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

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

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

@Coasting0942 @sara ooooooh. This is a religious scholarship? or a religious school? Alrighty then at least that makes sense.

It appears to be a public high school.

A public high school in Louisiana, so essentially a Christian school.

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

I am interested in your religion

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.

I mean if you’re going to be that pedantic about a comment that doesn’t strike me as intending to be nuanced and specific, there are versions of Christianity that are fine with twerking too

People say “religion” when they mean “Christianity”. This A) isn’t fair to other religions and B) helps to enforce Christian hegemony.

People also say “Christianity” when they mean “evangelicalism.”

Oh that really pisses me off. The poor girl!

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

sput

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This is infuriating.

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

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