LafayetteLady -> RE: You're gay? Fuck you.. no prom! (3/18/2010 7:04:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Silentrunner26 I see why the kids are pissed and I see the side of the school . What bothers me with all the other stuff going on in our schools ( low grades ,kids raping kids , teachers dating students , and most of all our school system in this country 35Th in the world ) this is what sets everyone in the country off . A prom that has been canceled over a girl wanting to wear a tux and take her girlfriend . I wanted to scream when my daughter asked me about the Alamo and when she did a report on it her teacher told her she had to redo it because it did not agree with the school policy on what could be taught about how Texas became free . Any other place and time I would back that gitls rights but not this time . My kids can't learn the truth about Taxas history but she has a million people calling for blood . No this is one fight I am staying out of . I guess you can't see that both issues need to be addressed. A lot of people have said how they "see" the school's position. How they were worried it would make the student's uncomfortable, how they were worried about parents of the "straight" children calling and complaining. It is a straight up discrimination issue, nothing else. They also were not allowing single students to go with friends which is ridiculous. It's sad that the students are standing behind this girl, if they did the school board would have to cave in because their "uncomfortable students" excuse wouldn't hold water anymore. They weren't "offered" to hold the prom somewhere else by the school. The school can't dictate if the student body wanted to have the prom off of school grounds, at their own expense. The places that offered to let them have the prom there, I wonder if they offered transportation? The money that the kids paid for the prom, is it being returned? All the money that was raised for the event as well? At least with that, the kids could possibly have the event somewhere else. It's sad that your daughter had the problem with her paper. But if you really thought about it, her teacher not wanting her to learn anything but the "school's policy" on Texas and the Alamo is not much different than this girl's school not wanting anyone there who doesn't meet their "requirements" about sexuality. It's all the same thing and one thing leads to the other.
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