Students Suspended
Karen
Source: MTV NEWS
3.9.00 12:00 EST Students Suspended For Seeing Backstreet Boys
A private school in San Antonio apparently doesn't find clean-cut teen idols
the Backstreet Boys as wholesome as most folks do, as the institution
suspended four of its students last week for seeing the group in concert.
Three students at Sunnybrook Christian Academy served one-day punishments for
going to the March 1 show at San Antonio's Alamodome. The mother of the
fourth withdrew her son from the school. Sunnybrook Christian Academy
maintains a policy against "involvement in inappropriate music [or] dancing,"
according to school administrator Trudie Perez. "Our conduct must be moral
and upright 24 hours a day." Perez said on Wednesday (March 8). Students are
expected to adhere to school regulations against such behavior as swearing
and drinking even after the school bell has rung for the day, she said. This
isn't the first time a Texas school has expressed its displeasure with
popular music. In 1998, several Texas public school districts held Marilyn
Manson Awareness trainings. Of course, the Backstreet Boys are a far cry from
Marilyn Manson. Viewed by many rock fans as a sugary, wholesome, even
Disney-esque group, the five-member outfit led the way in last year's
teen-pop explosion with songs such as "I Want It That Way" from their second
album, "Millennium." Their song "The Perfect Fan" is a hymn to mothers.
"Inappropriate music would be anything that would promote values that would
be contrary to Biblical values," Perez said. "We promote abstinence until
marriage, so any music that would have any type of sexual content would be
deemed inappropriate." The Backstreet Boys' hit "Everybody (Backstreet's
Back)," from their self-titled 1996 debut, asks, "Am I sexual?" And the song
"If You Want to Be Good Girl (Get Yourself a Bad Boy)," from the same album,
includes the lyrics, "If you really like it hot / Get someone who hits the
spot." A representative for the band could not be reached for comment. Perez
estimated that the school had been suspending students for attending secular
concerts as far back as 1983. Most recently, a student was punished for
watching a show by Latin-pop sensation Ricky Martin, she said. The
nondenominational Sunnybrook Christian Academy, founded in 1978, has 315
students from kindergarten to 12th grade, Perez said; two of the students
suspended were high school age, while the other two were junior-high age.
Senior Jason Trejo was enrolled at Sunnybrook by his stepfather, Perez said.
When his mother was asked, after the suspension, to sign a contract agreeing
to the school's principles, she withdrew him. Neither Trejo's mother nor his
stepfather could be reached for comment.
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Sorry to say that right now, but...ummm......such a thing can only
happen in the USA. No offense!!
Love 'n' Hugs, Anna
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