Dozens of San Diego area high school students have been suspended and banned from prom or commencement because of a twerking video according to one parent.
The video, created recently by students in a journalism class at Scripps Ranch High School, shows teenaged girls twerking while doing handstands to a YG song.
Thirty-two students danced and one student used school property to videotape the group outside class during 6th period.
Later, the student used school editing equipment to add music and post the clip to YouTube.
As a result, all 33 students were suspended as of Tuesday through the end of the week the parent told NBC 7.
San Diego Unified School District spokesperson Jack Brandais refused to comment on the suspension saying the district will not discuss student discipline.
Brandais forwarded the specific section of the district website regarding the suspension appeal process.
One Scripps Ranch HS student posted an update via Twitter, “Suspended, banned from prom, and prevented from walking at graduation all because of an awesome twerk video. I don't understand.”
NBC 7 San Diego spoke to one of the teenagers disciplined because of the video and he told us that may not be the case.
“The seniors involved are on senior review and have to ask for their prom and graduation back in front of a panel,” the teenager told NBC 7.
On Tuesday, another student posted on Twitter, "To show support for everybody getting suspended, we should all twerk at once at lunch #freethetwerkteam."
Seniors may be denied attendance at prom or walking at graduation if they have committed a “zero tolerance infraction” the guide states.
The parent who spoke with NBC 7 San Diego felt the school was not uniform in handing out punishment.
The mother said the school should have used this as a teaching moment to remind students that when a person is videotaped, he/she never knows where it’s going to go.
My school doesn't really care about this sort of thing. One guy twerked throughout a Harlem Shake video the school did that was later shown to literally every incoming member of the class of 2017 to make the school look "cool". But he's hot so I guess it's excusable.
I swear this is the third twerk story this week. First the chick who got stuck in the headboard, then the chick who broke her neck now this. This is a funny week
