School boots 3 girls in 'Underpants'

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Long Beach (New York): A high school principal has decreed that Captain Underpants has no place in an institution of learning.

Three 17-year-old girls were told to leave Long Beach High School on Wednesday after they showed up on Superhero Day costumed as the subject of the best-selling children's books.

"I didn't know which superhero it was, not that it mattered," said Principal Nicholas Restivo.

The girls depicted this superhero, who has battled, among other things, talking toilets and the infamous Professor Poopypants, by wearing beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes.

"Yes, I know they weren't naked," Restivo said and added, "But the appearance was that they were naked."

"They're not see-through or anything," said one of the girls, Chelsea Horowitz, an honor student and softball player.

"All the teachers thought it was cute."

But Restivo made his decree: There would be no visible underpants in his hallways.

And therefore, Horowitz and the two other students went home to change back into their mortal attire.