‘Mortified’: Furore over student’s twerking

Jason St Pierre, the head of Walker High in Louisiana, removed Kaylee Timonet from her position as student government association president, and revoked a scholarship endorsement after footage was shared to social media of her twerking behind a friend at a homecoming after-party.

“They had other people dancing in that video also that are on the dance team that nothing happened to. He said she was punished because she is the ‘hood-ornament’ of the school,” Ms Timonet said.“It’s a public school, not a private school. He has no right to discuss any sort of religion with my child,” she said.Kaylee’s peers rallied her around in the wake of the incident, selling T-shirts with slogans like “Let the Girl Dance” and “I stand with Kaylee Timonet” and posting them on social media.

“Our student government members are held to a high standard of student behaviour,” he wrote in a post on Facebook. “ mentioned reinstating the scholarship, I let him know that the scholarship deadline was done, and the damage that he’s done to her is done,” Ms Timonet said.

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