Okay we all know to take everything in the NY Post with a massive dose of salt, but why oh why is this the
cover story? Some dumb cunt's daughter doesn't like her picture in a year book and it makes the fucking papers???
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/48567.htm
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CHEAP 'SHOT' HITS KID HARD
By DAVID ANDREATTA Education Reporter
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MISERY: Asheana Maihepat, 11, of South Ozone Park, is in tears yesterday over the grim-looking close-up photo that made it into the sixth-grade yearbook after a teacher hastily took the shot. Her parents want all 200 copies recalled.
Photo: N.Y. Post: Luiz C. Ribeiro
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June 17, 2005 -- A Queens couple claims their daughter's memories of elementary school have been marred by a "horrible" yearbook pho- to, and are demanding the school recall all 200 books and replace the picture.
Michelle Maihepat, of South Ozone Park, said her 11-year-old daughter, Asheana, is so embarrassed by the "bad picture" that she has been crying and hiding her face in shame from her sixth-grade classmates at PS 121 since the yearbooks were distributed Monday.
"For the rest of her life, she's going to have to be ashamed of that horrible picture," Maihepat said.
"Twenty years down the line, she's going to look at this book with her friends, and her friends are going to say, 'What happened to you there?' "
What happened was this: Asheana was home sick on the day in March that most of her classmates posed for the standard cap-and-gown head shot. She took a make-up photo at the school a month later. But school officials said the $32 shoot took place just one day before the deadline to send proofs to the yearbook printer.
Without time to get the proofs, and fearing Asheana would be missing from the yearbook, her teacher — who organized the yearbook project — snapped the extreme close-up shot and sent it to the printer, school officials said.
The school never consulted the Maihepats, who said they expected the professional make-up photo in the yearbook.
Asheana said she does not recall having the quick substitute picture taken. In it, she appears pale and capless against a black background.
Her mother called the school's version of events "a cover-up."
Principal Henry Somers defended the teacher and said he arranged yesterday for the printer to publish a new book for Asheana, but that there was no way the school could recall all the books.
"We bent over backwards to accommodate this parent and we don't have a budget to pay for 200 new books," Somers said. "The teacher who did this went out of her way to be nice so the little girl would have a picture in the yearbook."
Somers signed a check refunding Maihepat $14 for the cost of the yearbook — a gesture the mom called "insulting."
A teary-eyed Asheana said the episode has upset her so much that she has decided to skip graduation next week.
The family says anything less than a total recall is not good enough, reasoning that the yearbook is Asheana's legacy among all her classmates at PS 121.
"Who knows, one day she might be famous or have a lot of money and someone could blackmail her with that picture," Maihepat said.
Asheana, who stayed home from school yesterday, said, "I never expected to see that picture in the yearbook. My friends feel sorry for me."
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)
Hot Bi-Dads At SchoolA Brockton neighborhood activist who has protested profanities screamed at rock concerts has hosted ``horny bi-dads'' for free-for-all orgies across from a junior high school, the Herald has learned.
Jay Dembling, a 45-year-old former Crime Watch member and head of a grassroots civic group called the Tri-Ward Committee, acknowledges throwing men-only sex bashes at his West Street home that are advertised on a Web site.
The parties are held day and night in the stone-and-brick ranch located across the street from West Junior High, a school for children in seventh and eighth grades. He has hosted several parties a month since April, parties which e-mails sent to club members say attracted up to 35 men. Another party was planned for noon today and a birthday bash was slated for Sept. 25, according to the e-mails.
``I would hope that this young man would pack his bags and leave our town as quickly as possible. I find his conduct reprehensible,'' Brockton Mayor John Yunits said. ``Whether or not it's criminal, I don't know, but given the location of his home, near a prominent school in our district, makes it even more appalling.''
Reached last night, Dembling, 45, admitted throwing the parties but denied charging money or allowing booze or drugs. He also said he's shutting down the seedy sex romps.
``The police knew about it and they talked to me, and I told them I'm not doing any more parties and I'm not,'' said Dembling, a well-known activist who spearheaded protests last summer after the profanity-laced Vans Warped Tour concert at the nearby Brockton Fairgrounds.
According to the Web site, partygoers pay $10 per day and $15 per night, which covers ``condoms, lube and snacks.''
``You may bring your own liquor, beer, and wine, pot and poppers. No hard drugs,'' the Web site advertises. ``Poppers'' refers to methamphetamine pills, which are often used to boost sex drive.
The raunchy retreats, which target ``horny bi-dads,'' have attracted up to 35 men from as far away as Rhode Island and Connecticut. Dembling denied pictures on the Web site are from his parties, although a neighbor identified one of the men in the graphic photos as Dembling. Postings on the site also say the pictures are from the Brockton orgies.
Yunits confirmed that police and the Plymouth District Attorney's Office are probing the same-sex soirees. Police interviewed several men leaving an Aug. 30 party, a neighbor said. The neighbor has since sent a letter to the City Council complaining about the parties.
Similar secret swingers parties have been busted up in other communities by officials who charged the hosts with running illegal businesses.
``I can't believe it's going on in our neighborhood across the street from a school,'' one outraged neighbor said. ``These guys are married coming out of this house. One guy was going to pick up his daughter.''
― JW, Friday, 17 June 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)