Holy Footloose, Batman! Student threatened with suspension for going to a prom!

[bulloney]

A student from a Christian school in Findlay, Ohio has been threatened with suspension if he attends the prom of the city's public high school because of the music at the prom.

A good "Christian" value. Intolerance.

From the Findlay Courier newspaper (www.thecourier.com)

Findlay High School students and their dates are primping and prepping for tonight's prom, readying for the flash of parents' cameras and friends' cell phones.
The spotlight is shining particularly bright on one attendee, however.
Tyler Frost, 17, a student at Heritage Christian School, a private fundamentalist Baptist school just up the road from the city's public school, has been suspended for the rest of his senior year and is being banned from graduation ceremonies for his plans to go to the prom, his principal said.
The story became a viral sensation overnight, topping news aggregators like Yahoo! News and flooding message boards. Media outlets throughout northwest Ohio and beyond are descending on Findlay to cover what ordinarily would be the typical annual promenade of youthful couples, groups of friends and individual students ready to dance the night away.

[onehandle]

1. Discussed at length here ----->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3868187

[MercutioATC]

2. That's the thing about fundie schools...

...they expect you to live by the agreements you make.


It's a private school. They can suspend him for going to a prom if they like.

[marshall]

4. He should have just quietly gone to this prom and proceeded to graduation

He probably blabbed about his hot girlfriend and her fabulous prom where all sorts of forbidden things would be happening--probably bragged to his fellow students and drove it in the ground until they were sick of it.

I'm sure there are other kids at his school who aren't openly following the rules--drinking, having sex, etc. But they aren't fool enough to blab about it. If you're going to go in a school like this you need to practice the "Don't ask, don't tell" approach.

[madaboutharry]

3. This kid is in a school run by freaks.

Completely nuts.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I was going to say

his first mistake was going to the fundie school.