[reelfoot]

Any objection to the separate proms is, in my opinion, much ado about nothing. It's widely known that in colleges a great many students, both blacks and whites, voluntarily separate themselves in cafeterias and other college venues. The same holds true in many other areas of post-college life. Is this wrong? Of course not. Forced integration is as repugnant as forced segregation. Each individual should make his own choices free from government coercion. Why does the fact that this is a very tenuous quasi-government school function (i.e., high school prom) trump freedom of association? I suspect the real objection is that it's a group of whites who want a separate prom. If it were a group of blacks, it would go unnoticed, because that wouldn't run afoul of the PC police.