If it wasn't so mean-spirited, it would be funny...

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 03-14-2010, 16:44

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

Fricke v. Lynch. They probably got legal advice to simply cancel the event, rather than either approve or deny McMillan's request. So then the issue becomes, instead of McMillan's Freedom of Speech rights, the "rights" of students to even have a school-sanctioned and -sponsored Prom. Some smart lawyer might (probably will) take up the case, pointing to other school events and extracurricular activities (football teams, debate clubs, etc) getting permission to use school-, that is: taxpayer-owned, facilities. Net result 2 years down the road?

No extracurricular activities at all. Or
membership in activities open to all.

Public education. What a riot.

This is weird. Why should the school pay for prom? Perhaps it's because we live in different cultures but this sounds ridiculous.
In here school gives us our diplomas and that's practically it. If students want a "prom" they will pay for it themselves and usually they don't have it in school territory.

**KukriKhan** · 03-14-2010, 17:29

Originally Posted by Ibn-Khaldun

This is weird. Why should the school pay for prom? Perhaps it's because we live in different cultures but this sounds ridiculous.
In here school gives us our diplomas and that's practically it. If students want a "prom" they will pay for it themselves and usually they don't have it in school territory.

Good point. This wiki article looks at Proms and prom-type events in other countries. Everything from state-paid to privately-sponsored. Over here the hundreds of thousands of School Districts (roughly equivalent to a County) set their own standards and policies. Most derive their funding from a combination of local Property Taxes, AND (this is a big "and") subsidies from State and Federal Governments. Those subsidies entitle those gov'ts to dictate policy and standards to the districts and schools.

To me, THAT is the weird part: distant politicians and technocrats in Washington DC and Jackson MS telling a smallish Mississippi school what they can and can't allow. But it sets the stage for Federal Court cases like Fricke v. Lynch; if you take the Fed or State dollar, you dance to their tune.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 03-14-2010, 17:49

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

distant politicians and technocrats in Washington DC and Jackson MS telling a smallish Mississippi school what they can and can't allow. But it sets the stage for Federal Court cases like Fricke v. Lynch; if you take the Fed or State dollar, you dance to their tune.

Yeah, what's next eh? Washington telling some Mississippi school to desegragate?

**KukriKhan** · 03-14-2010, 18:00

Touche', as they say in Paraguay. :)

Next thing you know they'll be giving children the vote.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 03-14-2010, 19:17

Stupid decision by the school. Who was she going to harm?

CR

**seireikhaan** · 03-14-2010, 20:28

What I'm not getting is why she apparently needed to ask for permission. Maybe prom works differently down south, but up here, we just sorta came with whoever. Not like we sent a letter of intent as to who our date was to the admin.

Either way, that was just a spiteful move to cancel prom.

**HoreTore** · 03-14-2010, 20:35

Originally Posted by Yaseikhaan

What I'm not getting is why she apparently needed to ask for permission. Maybe prom works differently down south, but up here, we just sorta came with whoever. Not like we sent a letter of intent as to who our date was to the admin.

Either way, that was just a spiteful move to cancel prom.

Probably some form of registration.

**Strike For The South** · 03-14-2010, 22:05

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Yeah, what's next eh? Washington telling some Mississippi school to desegragate?

Segragation now, Segragation tamarwa, segragation forever

**Crazed Rabbit** · 03-14-2010, 23:25

Interesting anecdote; back around the year 2000, my high school elected a lesbian as prom king as a joke. The school, which is in a somewhat rural and conservative area, didn't cancel prom - though after that year they required kings to be male and queens to be female.

Bout time those LA hicks caught up.

CR

**PanzerJaeger** · 03-14-2010, 23:26

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Yeah, what's next eh? Washington telling some Mississippi school to desegragate?

Been there, done that. Sorta...

**Rhyfelwyr** · 03-14-2010, 23:51

Originally Posted by Panzer's Article

Earlier this month, on the Friday night of the white prom, Kera Nobles, a senior who is black, and six of her black classmates drove over to the local community center where it was being held...

After the last couple were announced... Kera and her friends piled into a nearby KFC to eat...

The seven teenagers — a mix of girls and boys — slowly worked their way through two buckets of fried chicken. They cracked jokes about the white people’s prom

lmao