Do you think high schools should be able to mandate that students must bring dates of the opposite sex to school functions?

I've read up on this story and I think it's crazy that the school would attempt to dodge everyone like this. The general public, media and even the ACLU is coming down on them for their unacceptable behavior. Why did this even have to be a big deal?

I can't imagine that all this negative attention can work out well for the school, especially since every facet of the situation is now being scrutinized. I just typed her name into Google looking for more news stories and CBS is now watching for student reactions on Facebook! While I'd consider this to be appropriate scrutiny rather than an invasion of privacy, I'm sure the school doesn't like it.

This all could have been avoided if they'd just made the right decision. On the bright side, Constance McMillen got to go on Ellen and even got $30,000 in scholarship money from Tonic.com.

No if the two were willing to take the obvious abuse they would have gotten then it's not the schools place to make the choice for them. So kiddies what did the school teach you? And to the school what did the nation teach you?

I think they should release the names of all the educators hat made this decision.

No. Often single girls or guy want to bring a friend whether it be guy or girl. No one should make that decision for the student.

How ridiculous that the schools are so homophobic...Just because I don't agree with that sexual preference doesn't mean I should control the actions of others. If I control my own actions that is what is most important.

I think that a high school student should be allowed to go to prom with whomever he or she desires. Apart from the dating-a-person-of-the-same-sex issue, a female who did not find a date might just want to attend prom with some of her friends, as would a guy who wants to go to prom alone and hang out with his buddies. There is nothing wrong with going to prom with any person, as long as your night is a memorable one.

That is what prom is about: Creating memories and having a good time in the company of people that you enjoy the most. Imposing limits on who may or may not attend prom and in what manner prom may be attended is not okay in this day and age. The schools that are enforcing these rules are not only frighteningly backwards, but are also teaching the wrong values to their students (who may or may not be interest in a partner of the same sex).

The school may also negatively impact the self-image and confidence of those students seeking to take a same-sex partner to prom by making them feel like it is wrong to do so and evoking feelings of guilt about their behavior.

I think that students should be able to bring anyone they want to a prom--whether it's a person of the same or opposite sex, their grandpa or the Easter Bunny. If the other students atttending don't like it, they'll be sure to let the offending couple know in one way or another! What happened to the days when we let our kids work things out among themselves?

That's how they learn to deal with real life.

I think that was totally ridiculous for the school to tell who a student can bring to prom. Talk about a dictatorship! Back when I went to high school, if you didn't have a date, the guys would go with a bunch of other guys and girls would go an possible meet someone there to dance with.

I don't see what the big deal of two girls going to prom. After all these years and the way the world has come to practically accept lesbians and gays, I cannot imagine the school going and doing this. That was so cruel!

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