# High School student by day stripper by night? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860 "2017-04-20T17:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Beren\_Erchamion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/41 "2017-04-21T01:40:36Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > No. Not that I’ve ever heard. None of their business Many states require work permits that the school signs off on, but only for minor students. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/42 "2017-04-21T01:42:01Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > No. Not that I’ve ever heard. None of their business Yes it is their business. The school needs to ensure that their students aren’t having their grades suffer as a result of their employment. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/43 "2017-04-21T01:55:38Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Aren’t high school students usually required to get permission from the school to work while in school? When and where I grew up, that was only for students under the age of 16, and was mostly only observed for those students taking ‘work experience’ credits. Our putative exaotic dancer is of majority, and is working outside school, so she’d be free of that hassle. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/44 "2017-04-21T02:09:51Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Yes it is their business. The school needs to ensure that their students aren’t having their grades suffer as a result of their employment. Personal responsibility. Student, and the parents are responsible. A school doesn’t get to tell free Americans and what to do. If the grades suffer, the grades suffer. Life is full of consequences. Grades can suffer from too much video game time, can schools require government permission to buy an Xbox? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/45 "2017-04-21T02:26:40Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > **kayaker** , hearsay would probably require some investigating or confirming before acting but remember, _this is not a proceeding before a criminal court_. It’s a school disciplinary issue… So, Prinipal Weatherby goes in to investigate, taking one for the team, as it were? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/46 "2017-04-21T03:26:19Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > I was reminded of a fairly awful Mark Harmon flick called _Summer School._ The stripper in question in that one was a male, however, iirc. **Glee** also had one of the male students, played by Chord Overstreet, get a job as a male stripper when he turned 18. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/47 "2017-04-21T03:40:18Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > If the school has a behavior contract in place that the students are required to follow and that behavior contract included a clause about stripping (or that could be construed to cover it), then the school could conceivably suspend the girl. No behavior contract of which I am aware includes such a clause. Typically, they cover things like getting busted for underage drinking or possession of controlled substances. **They do, in fact, empower the school to suspend students for activity that that takes place off school property and during non-school hours.** My bolding. OK, I’ll ask for a cite for this. While you did acknowledge that behavior contacts are skewed towards sports and other activities, you are stating here that they can suspend students for any activity. The several examples I found on the Net for public high schools discusses activities such as extracurricular sports or attending prom, not being suspended for any particular legal activity. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/48 "2017-04-21T06:25:49Z")
My Google-fu is failing me at the moment, but I remember a couple of stories about high school students being expelled for after hours non-school related activities. I think one of them was for displaying a banner at a sporting event (not school). I also don’t remember the outcomes of any appeals. I think it’s probably going to come down to the school’s published codes of conduct. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/49 "2017-04-21T10:33:13Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > My Google-fu is failing me at the moment, but I remember a couple of stories about high school students being expelled for after hours non-school related activities. I think one of them was for displaying a banner at a sporting event (not school). I also don’t remember the outcomes of any appeals. > > I think it’s probably going to come down to the school’s published codes of conduct. - [Morse v. Frederick](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick)\* Or the “Bong Hits for Jesus” case. While the Supreme Court upheld the discipline, it did so because it was a “school event”. I would have dissented. I don’t think even Chief Justice Roberts would allow the school to discipline an 18 year old stripper. Maybe keep her off the rugby team, but not suspend her from classes. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/50 "2017-04-21T11:33:24Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Aren’t high school students usually required to get permission from the school to work while in school? You may be thinking of “work permits” which were a thing when I was in HS (the early 80s) and were required if you started working before the age of 16. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/51 "2017-04-21T12:41:39Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Hey, I’ll have you know I’ve repeatedly volunteered to check local strip clubs for high school students but all the school boards in my area are refusing to honor my reimbursement requests. Stop insisting that they tuck the reimbursement into your garter. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/52 "2017-04-21T14:15:13Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > My Google-fu is failing me at the moment, but I remember a couple of stories about high school students being expelled for after hours non-school related activities. Heck, I got expelled from high school in 1987 because I was going to be living on my own (my mom had suddenly passed away, and I moved in with my aunt… and that didn’t work out). I didn’t appeal it because I was on my own and I was too busy trying to find and pay for an apartment… and I didn’t know that the school couldn’t do that to me. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860/53 "2017-04-22T05:09:12Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Aren’t high school students usually required to get permission from the school to work while in school? > [@Procrustus](#): > > No. Not that I’ve ever heard. None of their business Actually its a case of YMMV and “depends” combined. In PA when I was young you did need some sort of certificate and/or permission from the school if you were under a certain age. If memory serves me, it was 16 or 17 way back then. I believe there still are some laws like that on the books today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-student-by-day-stripper-by-night/784860.md?page=2)