Image of water polo players in Speedos sparks feud. Mom demands SoCal school officials resign - BERITAJA

An online photograph of a group of precocious schoolhouse h2o polo players successful Speedos has sparked a heated contention successful Temecula, pinch the mother of 1 of the players calling for 2 schoolhouse committee members to resign for allegedly “sexualizing” the image.

The conflict was sparked 2 weeks agone erstwhile Sharon Sardina heard from a friend that her 17-year-old boy was being discussed online.

Sardina’s son, a inferior astatine Temecula Valley High School, had posed pinch 5 chap h2o polo squad members shirtless successful their Speedos. The teens had written “B-E-A-R-S-!” crossed their chests successful support of the school’s shot team.

The squad posted the photograph connected a schoolhouse Instagram page. It caught the attraction of Temecula Valley Unified School District Board President Joseph Komrosky and personnel Jennifer Wiersma.

“Speaking of dress code...are our teams now an ‘OnlyFans’ crew? Hats disconnected to the kids that kept their pants on,” Wiersma wrote successful a caption for an Instagram communicative reposting the image of the students.

In consequence to the image, Komrosky reposted the district’s imagination connection connected his Instagram page.

“If they want to support the shot squad aliases immoderate different team, they could do it by simply saying they do and looking for illustration professionals,” he wrote successful an Instagram comment. “My interest is that I do not want them to look for illustration they’re successful a sexually provocative portion tease looking for illustration their 1 measurement adjacent to the Chippendales. We don’t request that successful our schoolhouse territory successful our community.”

Others look to work together pinch Sardina.

“If this is the jump, you shouldn’t beryllium about kids,” Instagram personification Stephanie Berry wrote successful consequence to Komrosky’s comments connected his Instagram post. “As a parent, it looks for illustration aquatics boys being silly and supporting their friends. I’ll believe for your deviant minds.”

Sardina said she was furious erstwhile she learned of the schoolhouse committee members’ comments and has called for their resignation.

“They do not person the champion liking of our kids correct now,” she told The Times. “They’re putting our minors done a batch by sexualizing them. I want them to spot the existent rumor is not about dress code. It’s about these 2 adults who person taken it to a adjacent level and it’s intersexual harassment astatine this point.”

On Tuesday evening, Sardina submitted a nationalist remark during the schoolhouse committee meeting, asking that Wiersma and Komrosky resign.

“Tonight, I americium asking this Board to yet admit the seriousness of what has happened, clasp the individuals progressive accountable, and understand why truthful galore of america nary longer consciousness we could spot the activity that was expected to protect our children,” according to her written comment.

“I americium asking for accountability. I americium asking for integrity. And yes, I americium asking for resignation, because activity without work is not activity astatine all.”

Sardina said she besides wanted to speak earlier the committee connected the taxable but the committee members wouldn’t fto anyone talk, saying that they wanted to speak to lawyers first.

According to Sardina, Wiersma posted an apology connected her Instagram communicative but she doesn’t deliberation it makes up for the remarks because the communicative disappears aft 24 hours. The Times did not reappraisal the apology.

In a connection to The Times, Komrosky said he thought the photograph of the polo players was “inappropriate and their attire didn’t align pinch the district’s dress codification administrative regulation.”

“I’m judge these are astonishing kids and that they didn’t intend to origin harm pinch this post,” he said successful the statement. “In the end, I would promote them to ‘dress for success,’ arsenic they will beryllium our early leaders erstwhile they time off TVUSD.”

Sardina said her boy was pulled retired of people to speak to his schoolhouse main about the photo.

“He doesn’t consciousness for illustration he could spot his schoolhouse committee members immoderate longer,” Sardina said. “Trust has been surgery but he knows he has a batch of bully group down him and backing him up. If something’s not done arsenic acold arsenic reprimanding, what will that do to him arsenic a student? This could beryllium very detrimental to someone’s intelligence status.”