Girls interrupted: same-sex couple banned from ball

[WillParkinson]

Girls interrupted: same-sex couple banned from ball
Henrietta Cook
November 10, 2010

On the night of her school formal, Hannah Williams found herself all dressed up with nowhere to go.

After inviting friends to her home for ''pre-drinks'', the 16-year-old stood on her doorstep and watched her classmates file into the darkness to attend one of the highlights of the school year.

A few weeks earlier a teacher had told the year 11 student she couldn't attend the dance with her 15-year-old girlfriend, Savannah Supski. She was asked to bring a male instead. ''It made me very upset. I thought it was unfair so I didn't go,'' she said.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/girls-interrupted-samesex-couple-banned-from-ball-20101109-17m29.html

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Most ridiculous line: ''The school kept saying because it is an all-girls school we want to make an event where they can meet boys in a social scenario,'' he said.

[TexasObserver]

1. recommend

[Skittles]

2. the excuses get more and more ridiculous

K&R

[auntsue]

3. The principal said, "The girls were to bring guests, not

partners" like the other girls were not "partnered" with their "dates". She could have been sneaky and double dated with a couple of gay guys. Then switched "guests" when it was time to dance. She was too nice and honest.

[Heidi]

4. Recommended.

:kick:

[sakabatou]

5. Again with the stupid bigotry...

[ejpoeta]

6. that is crap. and there is probably nothing anyone can do about it.

all girls school must be a private school so that means they can do anything they want. but it's crap. it's discrimination!

[we can do it]

7. Oh My I Thought You Meant Sports

which would be even more devastating since its a year round activity