NY principal tells girls...No Date...No Prom n/t

[cynatnite]

STATEN ISLAND (CBS) ― Most girls spend months finding the perfect dress and shoes for their prom. And if they don't have a boyfriend, they often go with a group of friends instead of a date.

But one school on Staten Island says no date, no prom.

The juniors at St. Peter's Girl's High School have one week to find a boy to take to prom, or they're not allowed to go. It's a new rule that has some parents upset.

"I don't think it's right because what if they don't have a boyfriend?" mother Tanya Altieri said. "They got to be forced to go bring somebody off the street, or a cousin? That's embarrassing … or your brother?"

Robin Dickerson attended St. Peter's years ago.

"Sometimes you can't get a date, sometimes they cancel, and that just isn't fair," Dickerson said. "This is something they're going to remember forever."

http://wcbstv.com/local/prom.st.peters.2.725320.html

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. WTF?

Someone has their head screwed on backwards... Just, wow.

[angstlessk]

2. what about same sex dates?? n/t

[ihavenobias]

3. There must be some kind of Prom Crack-Down going on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Waee3nkGWY

[EmilyAnne]

4. Stupidity is shameless. These people are proud to flaunt their prejudices.

I Hope the attention they're getting causes a change in these rules.

[Raejeanowl]

5. Poor Kids

It's a stupid policy. It just plays into that old high-school popularity paradigm were everyone needs to be pair-bonded by 16 or life's over.

I'll do what I can to dis-convince these people.

Here's an email address in case you want to give interim principal Florence Bricker the benefits of your opinion:

[e-mail]

(edited to include email link)

[kevinbgoode]

6. That principal has no business pushing sexuality

especially sexuality sanctioned by the school. It's a dance - let them dress up and go have fun with their friends - date or not. And tell the principal he isn't welcome there.

[Beregond2]

7. Good God.

I can't even begin to imagine what those idiots are thinking. Who is going to buy all those hideous dresses? What about the economy, for God's sake?

[Mz Pip]

8. That is so old fashioned

That's the way it was when I was in high school. We had to have a date to got to the prom. So many kids lost out on a good time because of that.

It was dumb then and even dumber now, when we are supposedly more enlightened.

[JBoy]

9. WTF? Are guys allowed to go stag? This is ludicrous.

[Ilsa]

10. Are the boys allowed to "go stag"? nt

[JI7]

11. it seems like it's an attempt to prevent same sex couples from attending

[LibertyLover]

12. That's how my high school was -

no date no prom. I didn't go to either my junior or senior proms because I had no boyfriend and no male friend or cousin whom I could bring. It really sucked.

[LisaL]

13. This just seems so back-wards and bizarre.

WTF?