Parents outraged over 'man pageant' held at Kentucky high school

HAZARD, Kent. — An probe is underway aft arguable photos from an lawsuit astatine a precocious schoolhouse successful Kentucky are causing outrage.

As portion of homecoming week activities, Tuesday was costume time astatine Hazard High School and a "man pageant" was held.

Multiple photos were posted and past taken down from the Hazard High School athletics Facebook page.

They look to amusement scantily clad students giving thigh dances to module and staff.

Others showed pistillate students dressed successful "Hooter's" costumes, and students and unit appeared to spank oregon paddle each other.

Many parents took to societal media to code their frustrations.

"As a parent myself, I wouldn't privation my lad progressive successful specified actions," 1 pistillate told Scripps Lexington presumption WLEX.

Another pistillate said it's not a practice of pageants and recovered it "demeaning successful galore ways."

One idiosyncratic featured successful the photograph was Hazard High School Principal Donald "Happy" Mobelini.

He is besides the politician of Hazard.

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) says they are alert of the incidental and person contacted the superintendent.

"Under authorities law, superintendents person a work to study immoderate instances of pedagogue misconduct to the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB)," says KDE successful a statement. "If an probe finds a certified pedagogue apt violated the Kentucky Educator Code of Ethics, they are required to study this to EPSB. Here is simply a nexus to the Code of Ethics, arsenic defined by: 16 KAR 1:020: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/016/001/020.pdf."

The section said that if immoderate national of Commonwealth feels that a certified pedagogue violated that Kentucky’s pedagogue Code of Ethics, they tin besides record a written ailment with the EPSB by email to epsbeducatorethics@education.ky.gov.

At this point, the Superintendent of Hazard Independent Schools says the incidental is nether investigation, and due enactment volition beryllium taken erstwhile that is complete.

Sofia Miller astatine WLEX archetypal reported this story.