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Says the mighty ACLU:
"The controversy that has suddenly arisen in a political campaign over father-daughter dances in Cranston is old news -- the matter was amicably resolved with school officials over four months ago. And it was resolved for a simple reason: the school district recognized that in the 21st Century, public schools have no business fostering the notion that girls prefer to go to formal dances while boys prefer baseball games.
"This type of gender stereotyping only perpetuates outdated notions of 'girl' and 'boy' activities and is contrary to federal law.
"[Parent-teacher organizations] remain free to hold family dances and other events, but the time has long since passed for public school resources to encourage stereotyping from the days of Ozzie and Harriet. Not every girl today is interested in growing up to be Cinderella -- not even in Cranston. In fact, one of them might make a great major league baseball player someday.
"We commend the school district for its resolution of the matter, and are sorry to see some people turning it into a political football -- a game that they may think only boys should be interested in."
Yet another case of simple common sense going completely out the window. OMG!, God forbid a father and his daughter attending an innocuous dance! This will ruin all of our gender neutral propaganda training. Of course the school district would rather cave in to this idiocy for political expediancy. What else is new?
Yea, God forbid those kid grow up to be normal and know girls are females and boys or male! I'm quite sure all their kids go to public schools and all those activities are banned there..
Nice resolution. I always felt horrible for the girls whose fathers had passed away or weren't in their lives.
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. Of course the school district would rather cave in to this idiocy for political expediancy. What else is new?
