Students Hooting At Parent For Protesting Hooters
Talk about interfering with a child's education....
BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- A local woman who complained when a school official took some junior high students to a Hooters restaurant says she has been shunned and ridiculed since the incident.
"You can't believe how I'm treated," said Joni Quaas, whose seventh-grade daughter was among some Signal Hill School students treated to lunch at the restaurant March 10 while on a class trip to Springfield.
"I'm a loner at Signal Hill," Quaas said.
Quaas registered a complaint at a school board meeting after Superintendent Darrel Hardt took 26 seventh- and eighth-graders to the restaurant while at a Junior National Beta Club Convention last month.Hooters is an Atlanta-based restaurant chain famous for waitresses clad in low-cut tank tops and tight shorts.
It was the only inexpensive restaurant within walking distance that would accommodate the large group, Hardt said.
School Board members took no action against him in connection with the incident.
But Quaas has been shunned by other parents since she raised the issue, she said. Students often yell, "Hooters," when they spot her at school, she said. Quaas kept her daughter home from class last week to avoid teasing.
Gee, with all of the things a parent has to worry about, you'd think that a trip to Hooters would be way down the list. Face the facts; it's a mediocre restaurant based on a silly, adolescent male concept- albeit a well marketed one. It also gets way more attention than it reasonably deserves. Sure, I might prefer that our children not be served by ridiculously-clad waitresses, but it was the only affordable restaurant around. Would you rather they go hungry?
