The Huffington Post reports on an AP story about a High School prom in Mississippi that ain’t gonna happen…
The Itawamba County school district’s policy requires that senior prom dates be of the opposite sex. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi had given the district until Wednesday to change that policy and allow 18-year-old Constance McMillen to escort her girlfriend, who is also a student, to the dance on April 2.Instead, the school board met and issued a statement announcing it wouldn’t host the event at Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Fulton, “due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events.”
Does the school district think that if they just cancel the prom the issue will just magically go away? If anything, they’re making it worse for themselves and depriving their students a right of passage. Further, how does ones date to the prom “distract the educational process”? I don’t get it.
Hats off to Constance McMillen!
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