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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.
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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.
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"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."
Of course not. She was infringing on the school's duty.
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