I’ve long defended schools’ rights to enforce their dresscodes however arbitrary and silly they might be. This time, however, I have to say the school is just stupid.

LONG BEACH, N.Y. — Captain Underpants may be a superhero, but he isn’t welcome at one suburban New York school.

Three 17-year-old girls were told to leave Long Beach High School when they showed up on the school’s Superhero Day dressed as the subject of the bestselling children’s books.

Captain Underpants is a superhero from popular books that has battled, among other things, talking toilets and the infamous Professor Poopypants.

The girls, Chelsea Horowitz, Ashley Imhof and Eliana Levin, wore beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes. They were completely covered.

Principal Nicholas Restivo said he knows they weren’t naked, but it appeared that way, so he sent them home. He didn’t like the way they looked.

Other students were allowed to stay at school. They were dressed as Superman, Wonderwoman and other well-known superheroes.

One of the girls said she doesn’t understand the fuss. Honor student Horowitz said of the costume, “They’re not see-through or anything.”

I’m sure the principal has a hard-on for Wonder Woman or something.

What gets me is that he readily admits that they weren’t actually naked, they just appeared to be, and therefore that was grounds to eject them from the school.

Look at it this way, ladies. At least you’re seniors and you won’t have to deal with the idiot anymore.

Technorati Tags: captain underpants, costume, long beach