Some high school students who organized their own ski trip Valentine's Day weekend added a feature which caught school officials slightly by surprise - strippers.
The Contra Costa Times says it's the second time in two years the Pleasanton Unified School District has dealt with complaints about students hiring strippers.
The paper says girls staying in one South Lake Tahoe cabin arranged a male stripper's visit, while boys in another cabin arranged a female stripper, according to Pleasanton police. A chaperone caught the male stripper and booted him from the girls' cabin, the paper says, but he returned a short time later and continued the show.
Word of the stripper incidents got around other students at Foothill High School and prompted adults to start investigating, the Times says. Police got parents' complaints about the strippers and talked to students who were involved, but school officials are said to be handling the incident.
In a 1998 case said to have made world headlines, a mother pleaded no contest and a male stripper pleaded guilty over his appearance at a 15-year-old girl's slumber party. The girl was a student at Amador Valley High, the Times.
Police probing the South Lake Tahoe incident say no crime has been committed since there was no determined physical contact between students and strippers. But Foothill High principal Kevin Johnson would not discuss the incident when the Times contacted him, but he did say he would tell parents if he learned students were involved in any wrongdoing.
The school itself wasn't involved in the ski trip plans, but the Times says these trips have come under fire. "I have been fighting against this for a couple of years, against these ... trips that aren't sanctioned," parent and former school board candidate Leslie Coonan tells the paper. "Because every year, they get worse, more and more things happen."
Coonan says the trips happen when travel agencies offer student leaders free trips if they sign up other students, with parents told most classmates are going so nobody questions them, the paper says.
