School Sends 'Captain Underpants' Girls Home

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 wore beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes. They were completely covered.

Principal Nicholas Restivo says he knows they weren't naked, "but the appearance was that they were naked", so he sent them home.

One of the girls said she didn't understand the fuss and had a problem with that logic.

"They're not see-through or anything", she said. "All the teachers thought it was cute".

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