Image of water polo players in Speedos sparks feud. Mom demands SoCal school officials resign
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An online photo of a group of high school water polo players in Speedos has sparked a heated controversy in Temecula, with the mother of one of the players calling for two school board members to resign for allegedly “sexualizing” the image.The dispute was sparked two weeks ago when Sharon Sardina heard from a friend that her 17-year-old son was being discussed online.Sardina’s son, a junior at Temecula Valley High School, had posed with five fellow water polo team members shirtless in their Speedos.The teens had written “B-E-A-R-S-!” across their chests in support of the school’s baseball team.
The team posted the photograph on a school Instagram page.It caught the attention of Temecula Valley Unified School District Board President Joseph Komrosky and member Jennifer Wiersma.“Speaking of dress code...are our teams now an ‘OnlyFans’ crew? Hats off to the kids that kept their pants on,” Wiersma wrote in a caption for an Instagram story reposting the image of the students.
California The action takes the battle over teaching about racism to state civil court and, if the ban is overturned, could have a sweeping effect in California.In response to the image, Komrosky reposted the district’s vision statement on his Instagram page.“If they want to support the baseball team or any other team, they can do it by simply saying they do and looking like professionals,” he wrote in an Instagram comment.“My concern is that I do not want them to look like they’re in a sexually provocative strip tease looking like their one step close to the Chippendales.
We don’t need that in our school district in our community.” Others seem to agree with Sardina.“If this is the jump, you shouldn’t be around kids,” Instagram user Stephanie Berry wrote in response to Komrosky’s comments on his Instagram post.
“As a parent, it looks like swim boys being silly and ...