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Principal Fired After Appearing in Twerk-Filled Trey Songz Video

Esther Adler-O’Keefe, the principal at Southampton High School, was just trying to reach new kids through music when she made her appearance in JR’s “Best Friends” music video, featuring Trey Songz.

In the video, the principal is with her husband and leaving for vacation. Apparently leaving the rapper in charge, the principal tells JR to have a good time, but she warns, “enjoy yourself. Just remember, security’s here.”

After the couple walks out the door, the twerking began in earnest. And the content of that video along with the principal’s association with it cost her dearly!

“The video in question showcases behaviors and language use that is not promoted by the Southampton School District,” the superintendent Dr. Scott Farina tells the Southampton Press. “In fact, we actively teach our students the importance of good character and making smart choices. Additionally, this is not representative of who we are as a district, nor of our students and staff.” Twerking does not fall under “smart choices” in Southampton, Long Island, apparently.

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High School Ask Students to Sign No Twerking Contract

A high school in Lacey is making students and their parents sign an agreement stating students will not twerk, lap dance, or otherwise “look like you’re having sex” on the dance floor during school-sanctioned events.

River Ridge High School officials sent home the RRHS Dance Contract earlier this month.

The contract outlines various examples of “inappropriate dancing,” as well as consequences that will incur following a student violation.

Punishments range from a warning to removal from a dance and ban on future dances.

Students’ parents are asked to sign the form, notifying them that the cost of the dance will not be refunded following a student’s dismissal.

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33 High School Students Suspended Over ‘Awesome Twerk Video’

Over thirty students at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego have been suspended after allegedly using school equipment to film a twerking video.

Urban Dictionary defines “twerking” as “the act of moving/ shaking ones ass/buns/bottom/buttocks/bum-bum in a circular, up-and-down, and side-to-side motion. basically a slutty dance. derived from strip clubs.”

All told, some 33 media class students involved in the production of the video have been sent home for at least five days for violating the school’s zero-tolerance sexual harassment policywhich prohibits “verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature made by someone from or in the educational setting.”

Suspended seniors may also be banned from attending prom and graduation.

Many Scripps Ranch students took to social media following the suspension to express their displeasure.

“Suspended, banned from prom, and prevented from walking at graduation all because of an awesome twerk video,” tweeted one student, according to NBC 7. “I don’t understand.”

Another suspended student tweeted: “Suspended for twerking. What do I do? Twerk. At the beach. I twerk at the beach.”

Supporters of the twerkers have also been voicing their disbelief along with the hashtag “#freethetwerkteam.”

Meanwhile, parents are saying that the school should not have suspended the students, but rather used the incident “as a teaching moment to remind students that when a person is videotaped, he/she never knows where it’s going to go.”

At least one school board member, Scott Barnett, plans to bring up the twerking video at Tuesday’s board meeting to ensure that the punishment fit the crime.

h/t – gawkers

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