“...told by Itawamba Agricultural High School officials she and her girlfriend would be ejected if they attended the school-sponsored prom.”
If this is true, the school was wrong. Had they ignored the ‘problem’, there would be no problem, and the taxpayers wouldn’t be out $35K.
The district attempted to set-up two classes of students and would have gotten their hand slapped much harder than 35k if they had stepped into a real courtroom.