Dressed in ball gowns and heels, male Shorewood High School students strutted their stuff on the stage Friday, raising $2,700 for the MACC Fund.
This year, the pageant, organized each year by the student council, is apart of the Shorewood Games — a two-week fundraising campaign to benefit the MACC Fund (Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer).
Every four years since the 1980s, the community has united for the games, and over the decades, raised $135,000 for the MACC Fund. Hopes are to bring the total to more than $150,000 this year.
Last year, the pageant proceeds benefited the Wisconsin chapter of Greyhound Pets of America, which helps ex-racing greyhounds find adoptive homes.
The pageant included an introduction of the Miss Shorewood contestants, a question and answer segment and a talent show. The audience then bid on the Miss Shorewood contestants, with the bid money going to the MACC Fund.
Miss Roberta Kohl, also known as Bobby Kohl, was crowned Miss Shorewood this year.
Pretty much anything that can be done can be found to be offensive to somebody or other...
When I was in high school, we had 'slave' auctions as a fundraiser event. Not sure why it took so many years for school administration to figure out why none of the Black kids ever signed up for it. What measure should be used to determine if some of these 'silly' activities cross the line?
Tell me, specifically, based on the article, videos, and photos, what is so problematic about this? I want genuine specifics. Tell me who was hurt, how they were hurt, and what the consequences are.
I'm also relatively confident that it would be virtually impossible for any student in Shorewood's school system not to be exposed to more than double a lifetime's required allotment of PC-think and sensitivity training. This was for a good cause and no one got hurt. Give it a rest, already.
This whole Miss Representation is all a bit of fun for the students at Shorewood HighSchool. Let it go. The point was to raise money for cancer research. -24601
FRENCH FOREVER! #suckstosuck