Dozens of students in San Diego have been suspended and barred from attending their high school prom after a video showing them twerking went viral and was seen by school administrators.
As many as 33 students, mostly women, at San Diego’s Scripps Ranch High School received five-day suspensions, according to NBC 7 San Diego, for violating the high school’s zero tolerance sexual harassment policy.
That policy bans “verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature in the educational setting,” which officials say applies to the participants in the video.
The video features numerous girls “twerking” around the school campus, while a male student is posted up in each shot, giving us the idea that he was one of the “directors” of the video and perhaps the coach of the school’s unofficial “Twerk Team.”
The offending students did not take the suspensions well. Some vowed to keep on twerking in the face of the scandal, according to their twitter posts, ABC News reports.
“Suspended, banned from prom and prevented from walking at graduation all because of an awesome twerk video,” one student involved in it tweeted.
“I don’t understand.”
Another student says she hopes to lead a civil rights movement of sorts: “Suspended for twerking. What do I do? Twerk. At the beach. I twerk at the beach.”
Others are joining the twerk revolution, too: “To show support for everybody getting suspended, we should all twerk at once at lunch #freethetwerkteam.”
“This seems like a bad idea that might just get prom and graduation canceled. Though if you can’t twerk at prom, what’s the point, am I right? #TWERKorDIE”
Of course, twerking has its origins in urban America but recently hot pants Miley Cyrus uploaded video of her twerking (or trying), although hers was a lot tamer than what these presumably 18-year-old senior women put on display.
Take a look at the video showing the Scripps High School Twerk Team.
