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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 10:47 PM
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Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom
FINDLAY, Ohio – A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.

Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School's prom Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_re_us/us_school_dance_flap
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 10:55 PM
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1. Well, if it's a private school, it's their rules.
This might be just the thing the kid needs to realize he needs to get as fucking far from the fundies as he can.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 10:59 PM
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4. Should they be able to control what he does when he's not on school property, though? n/m
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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 11:06 PM
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7. My first thought, too
How can they get away with making the kids get permission slips to attend functions outside of school, that have nothing to do with their school? If they have a no prom policy, that's their business. How can they dictate what students do on their own time? And where do they draw the line?
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 03:02 AM
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14. The public school whose prom he was attending required the slip
My high school, also public, did the same for dates from another school. They had to get a signed slip saying that they weren't a discipline problem and were academically eligible to attend their own prom. I went to my date's prom instead, since it was the same night as mine, and they didn't require anything from me but a paid ticket. :shrug:

Anyhow, having to get a signature from his fundie school to attend the public school's prom is how he ran into trouble.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 02:59 AM
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13. Can an employer? Can a parent? . . yes.
I'm way too tired to go on with all the specifics of this, but if I were the kid I would enjoy the prom, and threaten to sue the ever-lovin' crap out of the "school" if they withheld my diploma for the "crime" of being a normal kid who completed standard coursework.

fuggem.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 07:46 AM
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17. Yes -- many/most "Christian" schools do -- as well as most "Christian" colleges
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 12:41 AM
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19. wow...
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SmileyRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 12:52 AM
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21. Most private schools do the same thing
I know a kid who was a model student with high grades, community activism - everything at a prestigeous "ivy league" type prep school. His dad got busted propositioning a male off duty police office in a men's room someplace and POW the kid (although technically not expelled) was refused admission for the next semester.

The Catholic schools where I grew up in Michigan required a kid to stay in good standing with the priest of their parish and get signed off every semester - plus grades - plus a certain level of extracurricular and community involvement to be privileged to go there.
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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 11:00 PM
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5. Sounds like
he might be trying to do that already. Must be the lure of that rock & roll devil's music!

:crazy:
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 10:57 PM
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2. I guess they'd prefer it if he took his boyfriend instead.
Hey, you know why Baptists don't like sex?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 07:08 AM
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16. Because it might lead to dancing!
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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 10:57 PM
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3. This reminds me of Henry Mencken's line about Puritanism
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-A Book of Burlesques (1916)
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 11:12 PM
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8. Well done!
I find myself thinking of that quote every time a GOPig grunts or appears.

This is why sex makes them so insane...................
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 11:03 PM
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6. He should take Kevin Bacon to the prom
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 12:01 AM
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9. Why is it any of their business?
Edited on Sat May-09-09 12:01 AM by Kat45
I'm actually surprised that a student at a fundie school even has a girlfriend, never mind a public school girlfriend!
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OHDEM Donating Member (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 12:05 AM
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10. How sad for him!
Dancing is against the rules because???? Rock and Roll is the Devil's music? It leads to sex. As I recall from being a teen, everything leads to sex. LOL

FYI - Findlay has a great state park! Used to camp there as a kid.
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 02:11 AM
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11. Reminds me of the joke
Why don't Baptists have sex standing up? They're afraid it will lead to dancing.

TlalocW
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 02:16 AM
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12. Are they seriously that afraid a 17 yr old hasn't learned to avoid temptation yet?
Sometimes I don't understand prohibiting people doing things like this. If his faith is strong, let him go and he'll be fine. If not, he turns 18 in less than a yr and will be able to after he graduates. Seems that they should have been able to instill moral values in him by now, are afraid their religion doesn't hold enough strength to stop him from....something?
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 03:34 AM
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15. That's the reason Baptist don't believe in having sex standing up.
They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.







(yeah, it's an old joke, but these Footloose times call for them)
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-09-09 07:56 AM
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18. Good for him.
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SmileyRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 12:46 AM
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20. Seems like that would be a blessing for the kid
Getting a kid out of the fundie culture is nearly impossible since it almost always involves walking away from your entire family and everything and everyone you know and depend on. That braindead thing we see in fundie adults where they just parrot what they are supposed to is more survival technique than stupidity. Getting a kid at this stage into the general population of a public high school and perhaps finding a support system outside the fundie world is the best hope he's got.

I hope they DO expel him.
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