Its like the twilight zone!

[bighousemike84]

I live in Findlay, OH and a story that I read in the local paper today is now the lead news story on Yahoo!! WTF!?

A christian school, Heritage Christian, is threatening to suspend a student and prevent him from graduating if he goes to the Findlay High School prom with his girlfriend who attends Findlay high.

http://thecourier.com/Issues/2009/May/08/ar_news_050809_story3.asp?d=050809_story3,2009,May ,08&c=n

I cant believe that we live in the year 2009 and yet its like im back in the 50's!


According to the school handbook, rock music “is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people's hearts and minds.”

Are you freaking kidding me?! I am by no means a leftist liberal but neither am I a right wing conservative but OMG this is unbelievable. To deny the student the right, yes that is a right not a privilege, to graduate simply because he wants to have a good time at a dance with his girl like any normal 17-18 year old. The excuse they use it that they are looking out for him and what God wants for him. Wow, just wow

[RealSchool]

I bet Mike Furley supports suspending him.

[The Michigan Man]

I live in Findlay, OH and a story that I read in the local paper today is now the lead news story on Yahoo!! WTF!?

A christian school, Heritage Christian, is threatening to suspend a student and prevent him from graduating if he goes to the Findlay High School prom with his girlfriend who attends Findlay high.

http://thecourier.com/Issues/2009/May/08/ar_news_050809_story3.asp?d=050809_story3,2009,May ,08&c=n

I cant believe that we live in the year 2009 and yet its like im back in the 50's!



Are you freaking kidding me?! I am by no means a leftist liberal but neither am I a right wing conservative but OMG this is unbelievable. To deny the student the right, yes that is a right not a privilege, to graduate simply because he wants to have a good time at a dance with his girl like any normal 17-18 year old. The excuse they use it that they are looking out for him and what God wants for him. Wow, just wow

Hopefully this will all work out for Kevin Bacon...

[UM4life]

This is the part I dont get:


Findlay High School requires students attending prom from other schools to get a signature from their principal. England [principal] signed the form for Frost, but told him there would be “consequences” if he attended the dance, Frost said.

Then WHY sign the paper saying he can go? Talk about mixed messages. I'm on the side of the kid on this. He followed the rules of the school and the Principle screwed him. If it were my kid I would want the principal fired.

[Medic]

Hopefully this will all work out for Kevin Bacon...

hahaha A+ MM

[bighousemike84]

This is the part I dont get:



Then WHY sign the paper saying he can go? Talk about mixed messages. I'm on the side of the kid on this. He followed the rules of the school and the Principle screwed him. If it were my kid I would want the principal fired.

Totally agree!

Update: He went to prom and was suspended from school first thing Monday morning. I guess he and his mom and stepdad are going to be on the today show or good morning America tomorrow. You know one of those ridiculously stupid morning shows

[RealSchool]

Good for the kid for going to the prom. In 40 years he will look back on this as an example of not letting people run his life. So he might have to take his last year over again in a public highschool, well worth sticking it to that school.

[The Michigan Man]

hahaha A+ MM

Thanks!


Good for the kid for going to the prom. In 40 years he will look back on this as an example of not letting people run his life. So he might have to take his last year over again in a public highschool, well worth sticking it to that school.

I'm with the kid, but would I waste a year of my life repeating a grade and delay college over this? Hell no.

Part of maturing is knowing which battles to fight. Obviously this policy was in effect for decades before this kid attended. The lesson here is: review the student handbook BEFORE enrolling, and if you can't abide by the rules, don't waste your time attending.

[RealSchool]

Thanks!



I'm with the kid, but would I waste a year of my life repeating a grade and delay college over this? Hell no.

Part of maturing is knowing which battles to fight. Obviously this policy was in effect for decades before this kid attended. The lesson here is: review the student handbook BEFORE enrolling, and if you can't abide by the rules, don't waste your time attending.

Yeah good point.

[BBA1994]

Yeah good point.

He should just go fornicate with the principal's daughter...teach him a lesson.

On a serious note, I don't see this as much of an issue. The student or his parents chose for him to go to this school so he needs to abide by the rules, even if they are outlandish and change at the whim of the principal.

If he doesn't like the rules then he should go to a different school. I went to a private high school and we had rules that our public school counterparts did not. Yes it sucked but those were the rules, if I didn't like it then I could have gone to a different school. My senior year I had to decided whether going to Daytona was worth being suspended for 2 games from varsity baseball. Meanwhile another kid on the team wasn't going to be suspended because he was going to Florida with another student and his parents. Totally unfair and purely the discretion of the school leaders. The 2 game suspension sucked but the week in Daytona was freakin' awesome.

[michAGAIN]

Obviously this policy was in effect for decades before this kid attended. The lesson here is: review the student handbook BEFORE enrolling, and if you can't abide by the rules, don't waste your time attending.

Lucky he did this in the United States. In a Muslim country they would have beheaded both him and his girlfriend and then they would have hung the parents. Hey, maybe they're on to something!

[Mike Furley]

I bet Mike Furley supports suspending him.

If the reporting is accurate, it's not a school I would want to send my chilldren to. Part of life is facing temptations down.

Nonentheless, if the event in question (prom at Findlay) violated the policy the kid signed his name to, and he was told not to go or face suspension prior to going, and then he goes ahead to the prom, isn't he forcing his school's hand in following through on their threat?

Three lessons this kid learned:

1.) don't sign your name unless you've read what you are signing your name to.

2.) know who has the power in every situation. if it ain't you, step carefully.

3.) life isn't fair.


In retrospect, the kid got to go prom, learned three life lessons, and can still graduate whenever he completes his remaining work - this summer, next fall or worse yet next spring. He's eighteen - he has his whole life in front of him. So he doesn't get to have the ceremony with the other three graduating seniors in his class. Big deal.

[Wolvrin704]

If the reporting is accurate, it's not a school I would want to send my chilldren to. Part of life is facing temptations down.

Nonentheless, if the event in question (prom at Findlay) violated the policy the kid signed his name to, and he was told not to go or face suspension prior to going, and then he goes ahead to the prom, isn't he forcing his school's hand in following through on their threat?

Three lessons this kid learned:

1.) don't sign your name unless you've read what you are signing your name to.

2.) know who has the power in every situation. if it ain't you, step carefully.

3.) life isn't fair.


In retrospect, the kid got to go prom, learned three life lessons, and can still graduate whenever he completes his remaining work - this summer, next fall or worse yet next spring. He's eighteen - he has his whole life in front of him. So he doesn't get to have the ceremony with the other three graduating seniors in his class. Big deal.


It also gives him up to another year to avoid joining this crappy job market. Gotta think positive.

[byebyelloyd]

I live in Findlay, OH and a story that I read in the local paper today is now the lead news story on Yahoo!! WTF!?

A christian school, Heritage Christian, is threatening to suspend a student and prevent him from graduating if he goes to the Findlay High School prom with his girlfriend who attends Findlay high.

http://thecourier.com/Issues/2009/May/08/ar_news_050809_story3.asp?d=050809_story3,2009,May ,08&c=n

I cant believe that we live in the year 2009 and yet its like im back in the 50's!



Are you freaking kidding me?! I am by no means a leftist liberal but neither am I a right wing conservative but OMG this is unbelievable. To deny the student the right, yes that is a right not a privilege, to graduate simply because he wants to have a good time at a dance with his girl like any normal 17-18 year old. The excuse they use it that they are looking out for him and what God wants for him. Wow, just wow

i imagine this will be settled in court, since most schools don't want that type of publicity though, it may be settled before it gets that far. either way, its communist horse shit.

[Mike Furley]

i imagine this will be settled in court, since most schools don't want that type of publicity though, it may be settled before it gets that far. either way, its communist horse shit.

idk. this is the type of publicity a school like this probably wants. I mean, if you're dead serious about keeping your kids in a bubble, this is great advertisement. The Taliban could learn a thing or two from this.