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A Phoenix high-school choir director is on leave after taking students to a downtown Hooters restaurant after a performance last week.

Mary Segall, choir director at Paradise Valley High School, took 40 students to Hooters after a performance at the Arizona Center. Segall told the principal that the Hooters, famous for its buxom wait staff in skimpy attire, was the only restaurant that could accommodate a group of that size, the Arizona Republic reports.

But the school administration sees things differently.

"There were many other restaurants available in the downtown Phoenix area in easy proximity to the Arizona Center and I know that because I called about them," district spokeswoman Judi Willis told Slashfood. "I called 20 and 17 said yes they could accommodate the group."

Willis said the school had received complaints from both parents and students who were unhappy with the Hooters outing, citing the waitresses' attire as the cause for concern.

As part of a project about cats, a teacher in Alingsås, Sweden gave her students cat food to try. According a Swedish new site (in English), this was not the first time this teacher had fed cat food to her charges. This time, though, one of the parents complained and the teacher was reprimanded.

I absolutely cannot imagine this happening in the U.S. Of course, I can't really imagine it in Sweden either. I personally don't think it's wrong to try pet food (as long as it wasn't made in China). I can see, though, where other people might.

I wonder what other experiments this teacher has tried out on the kids?