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lOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A high school administrator who lifted the skirts of teen girls to make sure they were not wearing thong panties, infuriating parents and making national headlines, says her career has been destroyed because she tried to protect her students.

Rita Wilson, a vice principal at Rancho Bernardo High School in suburban San Diego who was placed on leave two weeks ago after parents demanded her resignation, defended her actions in a tearful interview with NBC San Diego TV news.

"This was a safety issue, it was not a choice of underwear issue, Wilson told the station. "And that's where there has been a misinterpretation."

Girls who attended the April 26 dance say Wilson and another teacher lifted their skirts in front of male classmates and police officers to make sure they were wearing "appropriate" underwear.

In some cases, girls said they were also made to partially undress if Wilson or the teacher suspected they were not wearing bras.

Wilson said she had been concerned because dances at Rancho Bernardo, in suburban San Diego, had become raunchier and girls with short skirts and thong panties were often left exposing themselves during so-called "freak" dances.

"I think that parents don't realize what school dances are like now," she said. "I think (they would) if they could see inside a dark gymnasium with 750 students simulating sex."

Wilson said her efforts to control the "freak" dancing in the dark, frantic environment of a school dance had been unsuccessful in the past, so she turned to making sure that the girls at least were not getting exposed.

"That's really what I wanted," she said. "If they were going to 'freak,' at least their bottoms were going to be covered. 'Freak' dancing is not a fun thing to watch all night. I've had employees who have been 'freaked' upon."

Wilson said that her actions that night had been mischaracterized in the press and wanted the parents who were calling for her to be fired to know that she was a "good person" who was trying to protect their children.

"I just want them to know I'm not what they've said in the press," she said. "I've been so vilified I can't believe it. It's been a lot of years working and my career is gone. And its devastating to me because it's a real part of who I was. I enjoyed it and I was able to do a lot of positive things." A parent said "I wanna see HER ass!"

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

queen g wishes to know if hanley deus chooses to cloak his googles in a thong.

― Queen G the abreviated, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone shld submit this to the 'Funny Old World' column in Private Eye. I esp. like "I've had employees who have been 'freaked' upon."

― Andrew L, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the sad part is that i suspect the old girl really did think she was acting in these kids best interests...

ITS LORD OF THE FLIES OUT THERE PEOPLE!

― jess, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't believe she's a genuine but misguided person - you don't protect someone from a long-shot risk of exposing whatever is under the skirt by lifting the skirt in front of others (including men). This is exactly what she says she is trying to prevent! There's not even an attempt to explain making the girls partially undress if she suspected they were braless! I guess such behaviour might be less harmful if it were only in front of other female members of staff, but it wasn't.

Is anyone going to check my underwear when I turn up to meet you people? I can only say that you'll regret it...

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm going to prom tonight. a few days ago my mother saw an article about this and got all upset and said "don't let your date or the vice principal touch you inappropriately!" i said yes mom, of course mom.

― Maria, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

have a nice prom maria

― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard mention of a school prom in Peterborough or Basingstoke or somewhere like that. Why couldn't I have one*? Have fun Maria.

Also the principal is of course allowed to touch you inappropiately.

* Because I left before the end

― Graham, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Indeed, a very nice prom is wished. :-) Never had a formal date to either one I went to...so I just danced with everyone. That worked.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My date got pissed drunk very quickly as did I and things were going fantastically until she got sick at about 3 and I had to get her home.

― Ronan, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the sad part is that i suspect the old girl really did think she was acting in these kids best interests...

OH PITY PITY PITY

She now has a chance to make it big. Just one phone call to the same talent/press agents that handle Paula Jones, Tonya Harding, and Joey Buttafuoco, and she's set!

I mean, if it takes her THIS FUCKING LONG to learn some basic common sense rules about kids, privacy, and personal space... Jesus.

― Brian MacDonald, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Look, I've seen Caged Fury (Erik Estrada's career R.I.P.). Rita just wanted to play "the warden". Why doesn't she just admit it?

― Brian MacDonald, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Umm I was looking so good I couldn't reject myself (I looked over to the left) Umm I was feeling so good I had to touch myself (I looked over to the left) Umm I was eyein my thighs butter pecan brown (I looked over to the left) Umm comin outta my shirt and then the skirt came down

Oops, there goes my shirt up over my head Oh my Oops, there goes my skirt dropin' to my feet Oh my Ooh, some kinda touch careesing my face Oh my Ooh I'm turning red Who could this be?

― Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bullshit. She wanted to humiliate these girls for the crime of wearing sexy panties. Ever hear about the Los Angeles principal in the Sixties who made girls who wore skirts that were too short sew big scarlet S's on their blouses? Same thing.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The S's were for 'slut,' BTW.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

macaulay culkin's stripper rampage!! oh no!!

― geeta, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I were a student there I'd go panty-less and give her a real eyeful. Freaky old woman.

― S., Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

About that news report -- surely N. will be crushed to learn that Nicole Kidman is now stepping out with *gaps* Tobey Maguire! Does that mean N. will now don a Spider-Man suit and fling himself from building to building to prove his love to Nicole?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tom cruise is dating the olsen twins in parallel

― geeta, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

first i something something cant remeber the line to catch wreck, but first i gotta thong check check, one check, click one check, click two check.

― jess, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I never went to a prom... Gods don't .

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

stepping out with *gaps* => weren't the *gaps* the problem with the cruiser?

― mark s, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My little 9th grade cousin......the one that pops E on weeknights and pops two effexors to level off for next morning.......at his 8th grade 'mixer' dance, and let me stress this is 8th grade, he and some other friend of his were fingering this one freakdancing chick and making her taste herself on their fingers.......grinding has evolved something fierce......i'm only 2 years out of high school and the skyrocketing freakiness level of school dances is surprising even me, and I am filth incarnate (I once pissed in a chick's iced tea because she dissed my sweater).....I think an old lady these days could honestly be that frazzled by these grimy kids and just had no idea how to deal......I mean it's out of line to lift the skirts, but I understand......some of you libs don't know the half.....download some M.O.P. and you think you're living that life

― Ramosi, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I think an old lady these days could honestly be that frazzled by these grimy kids and just had no idea how to deal."

Ramosi - you have just summed up my life.

― Queen G, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the skyrocketing freakiness level of school dances

Best phrase ever. Come a long way since the fish dance, eh.

― Ally, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nickie used to think I looked like Tobey Maguire so my heart leapt a little when I heard the Kidman news, but then I remembered that she has now decided she had made a mistake and it's actually the bloke out of the Streets who looks like him and not me at all.

― N., Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Starry Sarah Nicole Kidman than. COR! Also, starry has just confessed to fancying TRENT REZNOR!

― Graham, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no problems believing that school dances are freakier than R. Kelly in a middle-school locker room, but I have a difficult time seeing how exposing crotches and butt-cheeks to a gymnasium full of people is helping to minimize the freakiness.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Eek, I am reminded of the terrible moment in Games when we were due to play volleyball. Regulation volleyball (and all other sports) gear involved minute navy pleated skirt thing with vile HUGE navy pants with 2 red stripes on the sides underneath. Only on this occasion I had 'forgotten' the navy pants. I explained my predicament to the games teacher who flipped up my skirt to examine my knickers and told me I'd be OK in what I had on. I was so horrified by this invasion of pantie privacy that ever since that day I have been unable to play volleyball. It is fortunate I had more conservative taste in underwear back then.

― Emma, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In case anyone thinks I was a wannabe teen flasher when I say I had 'forgotten' the big pants, I was actually trying to get out of Games by leaving my kit at home. I was not hoping for the opportunity to reveal my underwear to the entire class.

― Emma, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ho pants in gym class: Classic or Dud?

― Dan Perry, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Graham: ur no. Professor Nummy, actually.

― Sarah, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.google.com/images? q=tbn:SdiagET_nEoC:www.personal.psu.edu/mjf195/music/trivial/trentzk.g if http://www.the-leaky- cauldron.org/images/2001/06/aolgallery/snape.jpg

― Q.E.D., Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Ulp)

Yeah but Professor Nummy is older and wiser and has a much better way with a cape. And he wouldn't listen to/make rubbidge goff musick he would relax to DRAMATIC KLASSIKAL MUSIC whilst drinking a BLUD RED WINE.

― Sarah, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oi Sarah, I object to the wholesale theft of the use of Nummy in this context. Also you have reminded me that Inspector Nummy isn't on telly tonight (though Ricky & Bianca's soap bubble will go some way to ease the loss).

― Emma, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha I don't care! He is still Professor Nummy to me (and you haf nicked many of my sayings so this is PAYBACK but even then not much of a good one oh well).

― Sarah, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes but you have used the term in the context of Harry Bleeding Potter which is unforgiveable. When pinching other people's expressions it is only polite to respect the person who invented them.

― Emma, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But does hanley deus wear a thong?

― Queen G Deneuve, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Harry Potter" + "nummy" = "Geoff post".

on no! Starry + Queen G mind-meld! Oh NO!!!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Trent Reznor could listen to classical and drink red wine, so I fear Sarah must accept that she's given her heart to Mr. Self Destruct.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway, I would think that TrentLuv would be in the cards after Sarah's recent conversion to Goffdom.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HA HA this reminds me of a fantastic lounge cover of NIN that BtG played us... um... ages ago... and I meant to BORROW IT oh dere. Anyway no I cannot fancy THE TROUT cos he looks like a trout and stop comparing him to Professor Nummy else I will get upset!

― Sarah, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on, doesn't The Vampire Lestat make rubbidge goff musick? That doesn't stop you fancying him.

― RickyT, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh bugger, I forgot about that. YES but "the vampire" Lestat is also a dab hand with THE FIDDLE - I bet Trout is no good with a fiddle (Perry to thread, Perry to thread)...

― Sarah, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

in the booXoR LtV's band are called SATAN'S NIGHT OUT, which is poor

also (this is as good a place as any):

INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE
"One of the most wonderful, erotic, sensual books ever written" — Sting

― mark s, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Trent is not a fish!

― TrentLuver, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you really wanted to attract my attention, you would have typoed that. I mean, "f" and "d" are right next to each other on the keyboard, fer feck's sake...

Anyway, Mark's Sting quote has put the heebie-jeebies in my head. I may never recover.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah ALLEGEDLY fancying Trent Reznor = Best Thread Tangent Evah!

― katie, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah bweiss, you are playing the part of my NIN loving FWEND at college, it was my HILARIOUS joke to call him 'Trout' and her to say 'no he is not no he is not he is gorge' and me to go 'ha ha he swims in freshwater pongds' - although the funny thing is I DO NOT EVEN KNOW IF THAT IS THE RIGHT TYPE OF WATER hahahahahaha!

Yes, 6th form college, before you say anything else, hmph.

― Sarah, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But Emma, she's got WUV IN HER TUMMY.

(Thank you Katie, you know the words...)

― Graham, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oooh! Trent Reznor and Snape! if only they were at the prom....

― Maria, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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