No Love for Captain Underpants? NY School Bans Costumes
Published on October 29th, 2007
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LONG BEACH, N.Y. - Call it the Misadventure of Captain Underpants and the Peeved Principal. A high school in suburban Long Island has banned all Halloween costumes after three senior girls showed up last year dressed as the underwear-baring subject of a series of best-selling children’s books.
Long Beach High School Principal Nicholas Restivo, who sent the three seniors home to change, said the episode solidified his sense that the school’s costume tradition was disruptive.
