Six of nine teenagers suspended after lunching at an Ottawa Hooters restaurant during a school field trip are awaiting word on whether their academic records will be wiped clean.
The Cornwall students were appealing a two-day banishment from school, arguing they went to the eatery for the food, not the bosomy waitresses, during a class visit last week to the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
Hooters, an international chain with 10 Canadian locations, is known for its scantily clad female serving staff.
A letter sent home with the suspended students called the Hooters visit "injurious to the moral tone of the school."
Six students have appealed the suspensions, and a three-member panel began meeting yesterday to decide if the punishments should stand.
But Sharlene Hunter, a spokeswoman for the Upper Canada District School Board, said the students were not punished because they went to Hooters, but simply because they disobeyed a teacher's instructions to stay within an assigned area during their lunch hour. CP