Obama daughters’ school hit with prank email about sex, contraception

[shawn703]

Source: The Ticket

The upscale Washington private school that counts Sasha and Malia Obama among its students was hit Tuesday with a prank email advising parents that, among other things, their children would receive "a voucher that may be redeemed for their choice of contraception" at the prom this year.

Washingtonian magazine broke the news of the fake message, which purported to be a missive sent from the Sidwell Friends School administration. It is unclear how many families at the Quaker day school received the message, which was addressed to "Parents of the Sidwell Friends School Community."

Contacted by Yahoo News, the school had no immediate comment. The person designated to handle media inquiries, Ellis Turner, was unavailable. Washingtonian said upper-school principal Lee Palmer had emailed parents to disavow the message as a fake.

Among the gems in the prank message, which Washingtonian reprinted in full:


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[jehop61]

1. This shows

just how far the repubs will go. Disgusting.

[Frank Cannon]

4. It was probably just a fellow student playing a joke.

The "fake prom letter" is hardly an original idea. About every year I hear about a new group of jokers in some senior class pulling it off somewhere.

Previous versions of the letter have involved inviting parents to host pre-prom keg parties at their homes and a notice that all prom attendees will undergo a cavity search.

[yellowcanine]

7. The "cavity search" is a nice touch. Never thought of that one. Dang.

Free condoms is actually kind of lame for a fake prom letter when you think about it.

[zbdent]

10. Don't pull that string! It's not a FUSE ....

[Botany]

2. really a dumb move on the part of who ever sent the email because .....

..... the FBI or the Secret Service will be able to trace back that email to
its source.

[goclark]

9. Amazing!

Hope it is traced right away.

[Bjorn Against]

12. I don't know that the Secret Service would get involved

The letter itself had nothing to do with the Obamas it just was sent to their school, the FBI is not too terribly concerned with high school pranks as long as it does not effect the safety of the Obama children and this does not look to be even remotely threatening. Now if there was any hacking of the school's computers or other serious security breech it may be a different story, but just a prank letter would probably not concern the FBI or Secret Service.

[Botany]

13. If the Secret Service thinks it might be a threat on the President's family they will look at it.

A prank they will let go but an email sent that was aimed at the President might get
looked at. All it would take would be if Obama asked somebody to look into it.

But then again I might be wrong about everything.

[4th law of robotics]

15. I really hope the FBI/SS aren't wasting their time on stupid pranks like this

Idiotic? yes. Threatening? No way.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Some right wingers sick assed sense of humor.

[yellowcanine]

6. Or a Sidwell student "senior prank"

More likely I think, given that it is the latter part of May and thus the season for senior pranks. Private schools in particular often have a strong tradition of senior pranks.

[Iliyah]

5. Well when all else fails

attack the children. This is only the beginning folks.

[yellowcanine]

8. Doubt this has anything to do with the Obama children.

[zipplewrath]

11. The GOP is headed this way.

I hope they hang hard for going after the kids. I don't care how far distanced they are from this crap.

[4th law of robotics]

14. Handing out contraception at prom wouldn't be a bad idea actually

no need for a voucher system though.