High School Students Suspended for "Tebowing"

America does it again!

I knew our friends to the south would have something good for me to chirp about this morning!

Ladies and gentlemen, 4 high school students from Riverhead High on the North Fork of Long Island have been suspended for "Tebowing" in the school's hallway!

And of course, there's a video!



For those who don't know, "Tebowing" got it's name from Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow. Every time he does something good, he gets down on one knee and says a quick prayer. Must be working for him. Since taking over as Denver's starting QB he's 7 and 1 and on a 6 game winning streak right now.

Now to clarify, this will not be about Tim Tebow and he's growing legendary status, but more so about the stupidity of this school.

This is what happened. These 4 kids who attend Riverhead High always joke about Tebowing amongst themselves. You know how it is, you and your friends have some kind of inside joke. Often ripped off of a celebrity or pro athlete or something that you just made up all on your own. An inside joke, if you will. So these guys were just being kids and started Tebowing in the hallway of school. More and more students started to join in on the mass Tebowing. Appaently, it was starting to block the hallway. The school saw as if it had the potential to start riots in the school and suspended the 4 students for 1 day. The school states that the growing blockage in the school could have some students starting to push to get through and when they push the wrong student, bombs start flying, a huge fight breaks out, kids' heads are kicked in, teachers are trampled, chemistry lab is raided and an explosion blows up the school, the government thinks its a terrorist attack and launches nukes all over the world, The Muppets never make another movie, the world ends, aliens take over the universe,  and all of this because of "Tebowing"

In high school, I've seen kids fighting in hallways and all it was a simple "move along" or "get to class". Why suspension? I would have snapped a photo and then put one of those black frames on it with a word and definition. You know the ones I'm talking about. There's the serious ones that will have like a picture of the sunrise and it'll have the word "Motivation" or "Determination" underneath and then some cheesy motivational saying underneath. Or the funny ones with the picture of a church and then it says "Church: Where to turn when Google can't answer your questions" Ya, one of those. I probably would have wrote, "Tebowing: An Act of God" or "Tebowing: JC in the House" or "Tebowing: Gets you a 1 day suspension" ...When you really look at this, these kids were suspended for praying.

Just to let everyone know at Riverhead High on the North Fork of Long Island, you are not allowed to pray in the hallway, or in the classroom, or in the bathroom, the gym, outside, the bleachers, the locker room or anywhere. No praying. Not on school hours. You want to pray? You do it after school on your own time, but don't let it affect your studies. You better make sure you do your homework before you start praying.

I'm not a huge religious individual, but I do respect the fact if someone is. That's your faith, you follow it, cool. I have no problems with it. I do understand that these 4 kids may have used this as an inside joke but what if they actually were praying? And everyone who jumped in was also praying? What if they were taking a couple minutes out of their day to pray? You actually hear a couple "Ahem"s and "God Bless" and a whole bunch of  "Teboooowwwwwwwww"s

Talk about a joke. How do you justify ssupending kids for Tebowing and then claim that it had the potential incite riots among students in a high school. What was going to happen? An Oakland fan was going to paint on some black and silver and swing a mace at the students Tebowing? Or a San Diego fan start a Ron Burgundy style brawl in the Channel 4 News parking lot? Or a Kansas City fan pull out a tomahawk or bow and arrow and start reclaiming land? I don't know.

I would like to say a big thank you to America.
You have once again shown that high school's across the country are complete idiots.
First you promote incest and now you ban religion, or worse, football touchdown celebrates.