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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 cant 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
(7,932 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Stigmatize some vulnerable kids further still, should they?
Bake
(21,977 posts)Been traumatizing vulnerable kids for centuries!
Bake
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)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
(10,183 posts)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
(15,689 posts)Good last second stick save by the Archdiocese and school administrators!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)to make that poor boy back out of the date.
obamanut2012
(26,201 posts)Mine did, and it wasn't back in the Dark Ages, either. I'm curious how many still do.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)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
(27,787 posts)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
(20,805 posts)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
(9,914 posts)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
(14,180 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 26, 2012, 06:04 PM - Edit history (1)
authorize this policy or maybe one of his Holiness' pedophile\pederast bishops or cardinals?
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)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
(2,407 posts)This is the high school
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)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!