Booze And Lose: Students Barred From Prom For Post-Event Plans

[RedCOMET]

Just saw this online.

Did a quick little search, so i hope its not a repost.

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Gist, Two girls told a journalist they might be drinking invovled for them at post prom party, and thusly got barred from going to said prom. Gee, if only i could shed a tear for them. Maybe they should be more discrete with their plans to brake the law.


Discuss....

EDIT: the article is quoted a few post down.

 

[Queasy]

The funny part. The dad seems more upset over his daughter being barred from the prom then over the fact that she told the paper she was going to go drinking.

 

[Blazin Trav]

Could you quote it in here... the article is not working for me.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Hmm sounds like she'll get a head start on her drinking. really, what does this accomplish?

 

[Kipper]

Originally posted by: RedCOMET
Just saw this online.

Did a quick little search, so i hope its not a repost.

Text

Gist, Two girls told a journalist they might be drinking invovled for them at post prom party, and thusly got barred from going to said prom. Gee, if only i could shed a tear for them. Maybe they should be more discrete with their plans to brake the law.


Discuss....

English much?

Most school-sponsored after-prom junk sucks anyway. Lots of parents and crappy food.

 

Maybe the school should realize that if they're not allowed to prom, they'll only drink more.

 

[RedCOMET]

For your pleasure:

Booze And Lose: Students Barred From Prom For Post-Event Plans
05.18.2005 2:37 PM EDT

Quotes in local newspaper prompt school administrators to take action.
Showing off snazzy dance moves and cutting a rug at the senior prom is something high school students spend four years looking forward to. But for two students in Frederick, Maryland, comments made to a journalist will keep them off the dance floor this weekend.

Eighteen-year-old Governor Thomas Johnson High School students Shawnda Lawson and Nicole Taylor were quoted in the May 5 edition of the Frederick News-Post in an article on post-prom debauchery, according to The Associated Press. Titled "A Date With Drinking," the article quoted the women as discussing how, despite being under the legal drinking age, they'd be imbibing at post-prom celebrations.

The article quoted Lawson as saying, "I like drinking."

School officials saw the article and banned both girls from attending the prom. According to a spokesperson for Frederick County Public Schools, the district has a zero-tolerance policy for alcohol and drugs. Furthermore, the district's student handbook stipulates that all students be responsible, act in a respectful manner and avoid "activities that are an infraction of acceptable social actions."

The district's policy provides administrators disciplinary leverage ? even for activities that are not school-sponsored and occur off school grounds ? "if school administrators have a reasonable belief that the health and/or safety of the student or others in the school may be in danger, or that school operations or activities may be disrupted."

But Lawson and Taylor's parents told the AP on Tuesday that their daughters' comments had been misconstrued by the reporter who penned the article at the heart of the controversy; News-Post managing editor David Elliot said the paper's standing by its story.

Lawson's father, Timothy, said he thought the actions of the school's administration were misguided and doesn't think his daughter should've been punished for something she told a reporter she might do.

Neither Lawson nor Taylor's parents could be reached for comment. A Frederick County Public Schools spokesperson was also unavailable.

? Chris Harris

 

[nakedfrog]

But all the other kids who will be planning on drinking after the prom are a-okay.
I myself went drinking instead of going to prom.

 

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I went drinking by myself instead of going to prom.

Fixed.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I went drinking by myself instead of going to prom.

Fixed.

Nah, there was a group of us, including a couple girls.

 

[Blazin Trav]

Yes, some kids are dumbasses. Their loss.

 

[Kadarin]

Lawson's father, Timothy, said he thought the actions of the school's administration were misguided and doesn't think his daughter should've been punished for something she told a reporter she might do.

I agree with this.

 

[eigen]

punishing people for things they might do = bad mmkay.

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: eigen
punishing people for things they might do = bad mmkay.

They are being the morality police. but then again, as a student of that school, they in a way represent said school.

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav
Yes, some kids are dumbasses. Their loss.

Yeah, somethings, like getting trashed after prom, are just better left unsaid. People know kids do that kind of things, but if kids acknowledge it, they are letting the cat out of the bag.

 

[BigJ]

The school is over-stepping its bounds, IMHO.

 

[RedCOMET]

maybe the SCHOOL = big brother?

its just as ridicious as the bud guy who got fired for drinking a coors.
I hate to say, but strangers things have happened, but at this rate all the strange things will have already occured

 

[hudster]

Originally posted by: BigJ
The school is over-stepping its bounds, IMHO.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: eigen
punishing people for things they might do = bad mmkay.

This

and

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
Hmm sounds like she'll get a head start on her drinking. really, what does this accomplish?

that

sum up my feelings nicely.

Although I will say that if I made comments like that in the newspaper, the school wouldn't need to ban me from the prom because my parents would already have covered that and then some, and I would do the same for my own children.

So, the school's action aside, it still sounds typical bad, lazy parenting.

 

Ahh the memories of prom....... I really only remember the parties afterwards, then getting a hotel on the beach for my date and i.....

 

[marvdmartian]

avoid "activities that are an infraction of acceptable social actions."

Does that mean if you pick your nose, you get banned from the prom too?? :laugh:

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: eigen
punishing people for things they might do = bad mmkay.

This

and

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
Hmm sounds like she'll get a head start on her drinking. really, what does this accomplish?

that

sum up my feelings nicely.

Although I will say that if I made comments like that in the newspaper, the school wouldn't need to ban me from the prom because my parents would already have covered that and then some, and I would do the same for my own children.

So, the school's action aside, it still sounds typical bad, lazy parenting.

Your addition to those two make it the perfect response.