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RebelDDS
(65.15.103.195) on 3/11/2010 - 1:36 p.m. says: ( 57 views
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Itawamba made the news a few months ago (January I think) when a boy was sent home from school for dressing like a girl. Skirts & high heels from what I am told. There was some talk of legal action which seems to have subsided. The school handbook states that dress "must not cause a distraction from the educational process" or something to that effect, which seems to have the school board covered on this issue.
In February, a memo was sent out to the students detailing appropriate dress for the prom and stated no same-sex dates. (My opinion, and purely my own, is that this memo was sent out to derail the male student who quite possibly was planning on attending in a fancy formal gown.)
In response, the girl involved in this case petitioned the school board to be allowed to wear a tux and bring her sophomore girlfriend and was denied. At that point, she contacted the ACLU.
Yesterday the article announcing ACLU involvement appeared in our local online newspaper around lunch time. Before I left work yesterday, the announcement had been made that the school board was canceling the school sponsored prom. By the time I got home from church it had made national news.
Itawamba is adjacent to Prentiss County where I live. I asked my 7th grader what she thought about all this on the way to school this morning. Her response? "Mama, there's 12 kids in our senior class either pregnant or with a girlfriend who is pregnant. Maybe they all ought to have a gay date for the prom."
Yeah, that's 12 out of a class of 80-90. And that's just the one's my 7th grader is aware of. From what I have heard from parents/teachers in the surrounding area, our school is not extreme in this statistic.
In reading the comments on the Daily Journal, I was particularly appalled by the comment posted by someone claiming to be a student at IAHS...bordering on illiteracy, it shocked me. In all honesty, I am hoping that it was written by an adult trying to make people believe he was a kid by using such poor grammar and spelling.
To be honest, I have been depressed and disgusted by the response from our community. The small-mindedness and hatefulness abound.
I don't know what we are teaching our kids if we are teaching them that if anyone is different from you, you should ostracize them from your community.
I thought we had progressed from my generation of segregated proms sponsored by private citizens, but I think this is where this is headed again.
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