That’s a real headline from today’s UK Guardian, and probably the funniest synopsis of an absurd drama that’s playing out in Mississippi.
Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi, asked to be able to take her date to the prom.
The school’s board objected – and to McMillen wanting to wear a tuxedo – so the ACLU stepped in.
How did the school react? By blaming “distractions to the educational process” and cancelling the prom.
We think Constance McMillen’s a heroine. We think the school’s run by “belligerent ghouls”, as Morrissey used to say. And we think we now understand why kids grow up hateful.
More on the story at TowleRoad.
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