The Advocate reports that Constance and her girlfriend showed up at the announced location to discover some faculty chaperones ... and five other students, among them two with learning disabilities.
Constance's reaction, as reported by The Advocate:
"They had the time of their lives," McMillen says. "That's the one good thing that came out of this, [these kids] didn't have to worry about people making fun of them [at their prom]."She has a lot more compassion than all the parents and school officials who apparently tricked her into attending this event while all the other kids in her school were at a "secret prom" elsewhere.
The parents? Teaching intolerance. The saddest thing? They're not doing it out of ignorance, but completely deliberately. And the kids, 17 and 18 years old? Some of them will eventually realize how small-minded it all was, and will live with the shame for the rest of their lives.
The parents, on the other hand, should be very ashamed of themselves, and any school officials involved should be fired.
Update: Here, supposedly, is the other prom. Tux on a woman, no go; blue jeans, apparently fine.
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The only other thing missing was the pig's blood. Shame, shame, shame on the community!
ReplyDeleteI am glad to say that this incident came up in my American Lit class -- my students were (appropriately) appalled, and one noted that the parents/administrators who organized the "real" prom acted like "sixth graders"
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