But she was Queen of the Prom.
"Because it's all about me and my happiness!"
For what reason?
When I saw the headline my first thought was garden-variety Catholic-bashing in the media until I read this line.
I can think of about a hundred arguments on both sides.
On the one hand, it certainly isn't fair to ban the expectant mother from the ceremony but allow the father to participate. That's what used to be called the "double standard." Shades of Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter."
On the other hand, it doesn't set a good moral example to let a pregnant unmarried girl cross the stage for her schoolmates to cheer. Being a pregnant mother is a lot more visible than being a father.
On the third hand, you have to give the kids credit for not running out and secretly aborting the baby so their graduation ceremony wouldn't be messed up.
On the fourth hand. . . .
if this story is true and accurate - then I support the woman. Good for her.
Me thinks there much more to this story. Why were police at a Catholic school graduation? How did the police pick out these two from the hundreds of other family members in the audience? What did these two do to attract the police attention enough to be escorted out?
So she defied the tenents of a catholic education and got to go up on the stage...good for her! She could have defied her church and gotten an abortion, then gotten the diploma, and no one would have known the difference.
A similar thing happened at my Catholic High School class graduation but the outcome was somewhat different. 10 minutes before the ceremony was to start the Principal(a nun) pulls a girl from the line (pregnant - and showing)and announces to us that she will not be allowed to participate in the ceremony. Evidently, the Bishop was able to make it to the ceremony afterall. Our class President walks up to the Principal and says if she doesn't go we all don't go. Our entire class was only 75 students and we were all very close to each other. There was no doubt that we wouldn't have walked if she was pulled. They Principal was caught between a rock and a hard place. If we didn't walk she'd be embarrassed and if the Bishop noticed the pregnant girl then she's also be embarrassed. So principal just walked away, the music started to play and the cermony went off without a hitch.
JBR
Class of '75
So I guess only non-sinners were allowed to graduate? Must have been a quick ceremony!
I would have had her arrested.
ping to self for pingout.
If she earned her diploma like all the other students, she had the right to walk the aisle. Have no fear people, when that baby comes, the consequences will be very obvious to her. (not that having a baby is a horrible thing) She will have to deal with not going out with the girls... or the guys. She will be sitting at home learning selflessness and patience while her fellow graduates are out there having fun and learning more about the world around them as well as learning more about themselves. In the meantime, she doesn't need anyone else kicking her while she is down.
Is she talking about the graduation ceremony or her teenage daughter getting pregnant?
The girl has the right to spread her legs and make an ass of herself.
Mrs Grundy just needs something to complain about.
Just wanted to highlight that.
That's pretty funny. Must have infuriated the nunnery!
Of she fulfilled her graduation requirements, she should be able to participate in the graduation ceremonies.
Either she graduated or she didn't. If she did, allow her the same courtesy as the other graduates.
On the other hand, this is a private school and can make it's own rules.
Not that I'm straddling the fence, or anything. :0)
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWSV5/storyV5stjudegrad29w.htm
Here's another article about it.