Well, I guess we know why so many Edmond kids suffer from childhood trauma!
As the Deer Creek toe-sucking controversy expands across the country like a bad case of Athlete’s Foot, providing right-wing provocateurs like Ryan Walters the opportunity to kiss the feet of the Fox News gods, spout propaganda, and turn the national media spotlight away from the tragic death of Nex Benedict, we’ve learned that it’s apparently not the only district where students dabble in kinky and disgusting fun in the name of charity.
According to an email we received via the Ogle Mole Network, Toe Sucking for Charity™ is a common thing in the neighboring Edmond Public School District.
Check this out:
I wanted to give a bit of perspective to the toe-licking fundraising thing. For some reason, probably a left-over sports hazing ritual, all the Edmond high schools do some sort of licking-food-products-off-of-body-parts thing during their fundraising drives. I am a teacher at one of these schools, and I can tell you that I have not heard a single student or teacher describe these things as a good idea. Some of the students have said they attend all of the fundraising assemblies but this one, as they describe dry-heaving and panic attacks. I doubt the administration loves it, as they are good and reasonable people, but there is the momentum of tradition that seems to keep these things going. Almost universally, we think they’re gross, and some suggest some sort of fetish thing is going on. (God, I hope not.) It is my dearest hope that the embarrassment of this video for the schools that do such things will result in the ending of this unnecessarily disgusting activity. It’s going to be one of those things that makes us look back and say, “What the hell were people thinking?”
Sincerely,
A High School Teacher
After I read that email, the first thing I did was text my old pals Tony and Marisa.