Teacher Takes Junior High Students To Hooters
What, was the cover charge too high at the strip club? Jerk.
Source: Belleville News
Parent upset about students’ trip to Hooters
BELLEVILLE - A trip to Hooters Restaurant isn’t appropriate for Signal Hill School students and the superintendent who took them there should know it, a student’s parent said Monday.
Joni Quaas — whose 13-year-old daughter was among the seventh- and eighth-graders who dined at the Springfield restaurant — said she plans to bring her concerns to the Signal Hill School Board meeting at 5:30 p.m. today.
“I really feel strongly that it’s not a healthy place to bring girls,” Quaas said. “You don’t let people get away with things like this.”
Signal Hill School District 181 Superintendent Darrel Hardt took 26 seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls to Hooters in Springfield while there for a two-day Junior National Beta Club Convention. The Beta Club is a service organization for students who maintain good grades.
Choosing the restaurant was a decision made out of concern for the safety of the kids, Hardt said.
Most of the restaurants in the area were located on the other side of a four-lane road from the hotel where the group was staying. Hooters was the only restaurant within walking distance that was inexpensive and could accommodate the 26 students, he said.
“We did it for the right reasons,” said Hardt, who is set to resign as superintendent later this year. “We did it simply because of the safety of the kids.”
An employee a the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Springfield said there was at least five restaurants within walking distance. An Internet search on Yahoo! maps noted 17 restaurants within a half mile from the hotel. Cheddar’s Casual Cafe — located across the parking lot from Hooters — couldn’t accommodate the group and most of the other restaurants were already filled or outside of the students’ price range, Hardt said. Five other school groups experienced the same problem and dined at Hooters, he said.
No parents were notified that the trip to Springfield would include a visit to the local Hooters, Quaas said. She found out when her daughter had pictures from the trip developed, including a photograph of an eighth-grade boy standing on a chair while Hooters waitresses danced and sang “Happy Birthday.”
“It’s inappropriate,” Quaas said. “Everybody knows what Hooters is all about.”
Hooters is an Atlanta-based restaurant chain with more than 330 locations. According to its Web site, “t he element of female sex appeal is prevalent in the restaurants, and the company believes the Hooters Girl is as socially acceptable as a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, or Radio City Rockette.”
Waitresses at Hooters are required to wear a uniform that consists of orange shorts and a white tank top, short-sleeve or long-sleeve shirt. Pantyhose and bras are required.
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