Catholic School bans girl from prom for having no date

[LynneSin]

Amanda Dougherty, Junior At Catholic High School, Banned From Prom For Having No Date


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/amanda-dougherty-high-sc_n_1451922.html?ref=mostpopular

If there wasn't enough pressure already to score the perfect date for prom, one Catholic high school in Pennsylvania took it a step further with a rule forbidding students from going to the dance solo.

Seventeen-year-old Amanda Dougherty was gearing up for the junior prom of her dreams, with her dress, shoes, accessories and date all ready for the big night. But when her date backed out at the last minute, her plans for the entire evening were thrown to the wind. Not only was she left dateless, but Amanda found out that she wasn't permitted to attend stag. School administrators at Archbishop John Carroll High School alerted her that a rule by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia banned students from attending the dance without a date.

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A statement from the office of Catholic Education addressed the rule with little explanation as to its rationale:

The prom is an exciting event for students in all of our Archdiocesan high schools. We do have policies in place to regulate both the junior and senior prom. Unfortunately, not all students are able to attend. We can’t address specific issues with specific students but there are various reasons that a student would not be able to attend. Not having a date is one example. Our high schools offer numerous dances and events throughout the year where dates are not required, but we view the prom as a special social event where a date is required to attend.

[Drale]

1. Send them the bill for all the money spent. /nt

[MrScorpio]

2. What?? Well that's really fucked up

Stigmatize some vulnerable kids further still, should they?

[Bake]

13. It's the Catholic Church, man! What'd you expect?

Been traumatizing vulnerable kids for centuries!

Bake

[hedgehog]

3. My youngest daughter went to several proms -

with friends of hers who are girls. They saw it as an event to have fun with the people they went to school with, not as an engagement party!

[Greybnk48]

4. Well, we're now back to the 50's and 60's.

There is going to be such a backlash to all of this radical right-wing crap it's going to be head spinning.

[kenny blankenship]

5. Unpaired prom attendees is how the Debbil tempts us into threesomes

Good last second stick save by the Archdiocese and school administrators!

[Enrique]

6. they wanted her to go home and think about what she did

to make that poor boy back out of the date.

[obamanut2012]

7. Quite a few public high schools also did that

Mine did, and it wasn't back in the Dark Ages, either. I'm curious how many still do.

[Blue_Tires]

8. batshit insanity...

i don't even know where this rule comes from...I went to a conservative catholic high school, and people came alone if they wanted...

Like one of the HuffPo comments said, she ought to go with another girl just to make the diocese shit bricks

[JoePhilly]

9. Wow ... I went to at least 4 Catholic HS proms in Philly, and I'm not even Catholic.

And I took 2 of those Catholic girls to my Jr and Sr. proms at my public school.

In 2 cases, the catholic girl who invited me to her prom was just a neighborhood friend. We weren't dating, just friends.

And in one case, a bunch of us had "dates", but I think only one of the "couples" was actually dating.

My friends who are still up in Philly tell me the Catholic school system is spinning out of control. This sounds like a symptom.

[truebrit71]

10. Wow, these guys really just can't help themselves can they?

If I were the parents I would send them the bill for the dress and the shoes, and move my kid to a new school...

[benld74]

11. THATS BS! My daughter

graduated from a Catolic High School, went to 2 PROMS, and NONE of the group she went with HAD DATES! BOYS and GIRLS.



GET WITH THE 21st century!!!!!!

[coalition_unwilling]

12. I'd be shopping for a new church (religion). Did the NAZI Pope

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authorize this policy or maybe one of his Holiness' pedophile\pederast bishops or cardinals?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

14. if any nuns attend, will they have a date?

[4th law of robotics]

15. Nothing ruins a dance like a bunch of unpaired women

fortunately all those nuns were there to intervene and protect the students . . . wait a moment. . . those nuns wouldn't be single would they?

[4 t 4]

16. Archbishop John Carroll High School

This is the high school

[Ilsa]

17. I attended my sr prom alone. No regrets.

These people are nuts for depriving her of the chance to be with her friends. It's a shame a guy with another date couldn't try to make it a threesome!