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Halloween Costume Gets Osceola H.S. Student Suspended POSTED: 10:15 a.m. EST November 3, 2003 UPDATED: 10:56 a.m. EST November 3, 2003 KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Osceola High School administrators thought a student's Halloween costume was more trick than treat. So they suspended her. SURVEY Do you agree with the high school's decision to suspend the student for her halloween costume? Yes, it was inappropriate No, it was a good PSA Results | Disclaimer Lanessa Riobe, 16, was told to go home Friday after wearing a T-shirt decorated with condoms. Lanessa said she decided on the costume after seeing safe-sex commercials on television. Not strange enough? Read more strange news from WFTV.com. "A lot of my friends are sexually active," Riobe told the Orlando Sentinel. "I tell them, if you're going to do it, be safe." Riobe taped condoms to a white T-shirt and began passing them out to her classmates. Her first-period teacher alerted school administrators, who sent her home with a three-day suspension for class disruption. They also said she had an insolent attitude. Osceola High principal Chuck Paradiso later reduced the suspension to one day. "This is not acceptable," he said. "This is something you don't do in a public school." Ribose's mother, Melissa, supported her daughter's decision, and even helped her get the condoms for the costume. "Sex can be deadly and people need to know that," Melissa Riobe said. "I just can't believe they suspended her for doing something good." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
