OK — we know why they didn’t invite this particular girl. What about the other six?
The problem is ... high school kids can be jerks. Many are. So, they pick the seven least popular kids (including this lesbian who is unpopular mostly because she’s a pain-in-the-ass) send them to one location to shut them up, but don’t tell them about the real party.
As a parent, I’d be less concerned about the feelings of this individual girl, and more concerned about the behavior of my kid in intentionally casting out seven people because they were disliked (including six that did not cause the cancellation of the prom).
I’d also want to know EXACTLY why the other six were chosen to be ostracised. We intentionally teach my daughter that Christ would want us to befriend those that are outcast by others. One good Christian friend may have made a world of difference to this girl.
This is not to say that she didn’t bring some of this on herself with her selfishness, or that the ACLU didn’t contribute heavily to the problem ... she did, and they did.
Do unto others ...
SnakeDoc
You do not know if the other six were uninvited. Their attendance is most likely controlled by their keepers. Who would that be?
That’s a good question there. Did the others just choose to go to this prom or were they left off the invitee list too?
On the other hand, a private party is a private party and it’s not elementary school any more where “every member of the class has to be invited.” I’m sure there were many parties over the last 4 years that were private without invitations for all.
As you said, Christ taught us to love the outcast, (however, not to COPY the outcast) and to treat others as he would have treated them.
But....good catch on the others. Were they invited and chose their ‘prom?’ Were they left out for a reason? Or is it all a tempest in teapot because the larger party was private?
I will not knowingly “fellowship” with people in open sin. I will try to be friendly to them and tell them about my Lord and Saviour, but I will not go to their bars to reach them, I will not go to the strip clubs or porno theaters or clubs to reach them. And I will not send my children into the wolfs den to try and teach them how to be sheep.
So, when I was at High School, I wasn’t invited to all the parties of my fellow classmates, and I didn’t whine about it.
I can't tell from the article if the others were invited to the other party or not - so you are making an assumption that may not be warranted. It may be that the others chose to go the "official" party to support Constance.
Before you get upset about the others "ostracizing" the other students, wouldn't you need to know who the students were and why the went to one party and not the other? Otherwise, you venture pretty close to liberal territory, accusing the other students of a "thought crime" because of an outcome you seem to disagree with.
These were the liberal kids who showed up, thinking the whole school would join them there in embracing her activism.
“OK — we know why they didn’t invite this particular girl. What about the other six?”
You are right. We do not know about the other six. I do not believe that ALL the special needs students were not invited to the private “drama free” prom. Some children who are “special needs” you would not want your children - Christian or not - to socialize with.
Believe it or not, one special need student had an IEP which recognized he would masterbate in class. Teachers had to manage the classroom with this problem in mind. Another behavior student had an explosive temper when told, “no”. Want him asking your daughter to dance. Oh yeah, explosive temper was part of his “qualifying condition” and in the IEP which did not allow expulsion. If he decked the brains out of someone, he remained on campus. He would be placed out of the mainstream classroom where the conflict took place and put out in the behavior unit for that period.
Proms are Juniors and Seniors. It appears to me if only eight students were not at the private prom, it was not a matter of not inviting only the popular kids. I seriously doubt that ALL special needs children were eliminated from the private prom - just those who created drama.