You assume these others were “ostracized”’ but you have no evidence to that effect. How do you know they didn’t go to the other event as well, or wanted too. The one Constance went too was the “official” event. The other students voted with their lack of attendance.
Don’t make this about the other students who attended with Constance - certainly Constance doesn’t want to share the lime-light! Constance got what she asked for, but it wasn’t what others agreed too. So now she is left with the results of her actions. Seems like just results to me.
After all - the other thing I assume you’re teaching your kids are that actions have consequences!
IN fact, another article noted that Constance left the prom early because there were only 7 others there and she didn't enjoy it. So really, she ditched the others for her own personal reasons, just like the rest of the class decided not to attend the unofficial-official Prom.
Which is another weird part of this story -- they cancelled the official prom, and then had a "private" prom that was chaperoned by the school officials? DOesn't that make it an official school function, if you have school officials in charge, and I presume applied school rules?
In the end, an entire senior class had what some think is the most important day of their life RUINED because a girl insisted on wearing a tuxedo. What, is a lesbian genetically incapable of wearing a dress? And we are supposed to feel bad for the tuxedo-girl? And supposed to be upset at the entire class of people who had their prom ruined?
From the earlier stories, we learn that the school tried to make accomodations. They wouldn't let the girl bring a female underclassman as a date, but said she could come to the dance. They wouldn't let her wear a tuxedo. If she was dating another senior, they both could have come to the dance, and spent the dance together. She could have gotten a friend to "swap dates", so a guy could "bring" the sophomore, and the guy's senior date could have come "alone".
The girl insisted on wearing a tuxedo, and on being allowed to bring her same-sex sophomore (realise that in the end, it is unlikely the other kid's family would have allowed her to go, since they are refusing to allow anybody to know who she is or to take her picture, and obviously attending the prom would have meant pictures and notoriety).
The school, probably broke like most schools, could hardly afford a court battle, so they cancelled the prom.