This is really sad

blackfire5th

http://tinyurl.com/yg63l62

stina93446

That's so messed up. Her peers already were SO mean to her. This is just insult to injury. Poor girls.

SarahPLiz

That is really sad. How humiliating. And how horrible of the other students to treat her that way.

xoxob

That is awful. So upsetting people can behave like that.

blackfire5th

It sounds like the parents were the ones that organized everything.  That makes it even worse in my opinion.

baystateapple

That poor girl.  I can't believe those idiots were so cruel to her.  Parents and teachers "faking" prom so she couldn't go?  Sounds like a nasty adolescent trick out of a Sweet Valley High novel.

suz62984

As a society we think we have come such a long way. This just goes to show you that people are still as close-minded and hurtful as ever.

saxy414

Two students with learning difficulties were among the seven people at the country club event, McMillen recalls. "They had the time of their lives," McMillen says. "That's the one good thing that come out of this, [these kids] didn't have to worry about people making fun of them [at their prom]."

If anything, I guess that's some good news.  But still, it makes me sick to my stomach that PARENTS were in charge, and not only were ok with this behavior, THEY organized it.  Seriously, who thinks they are so great that they have the authority to decide that a lesbian and some kids with learning difficulties aren't good enough to come to the super secret prom?  That is awful and cruel. 

AlmostMrs.Munoz

I read this earlier today and it made me so incredibly mad. How is it that people can justify treating another human being this way? Those excuse-for-parents should be ashamed of themselves. You are supposed to set an example for your children, and sending the message that spreading hate is okay is absolutely unacceptable. How small of them.

blackfire5th

Saxy- the article said that the kids with learning difficulties were not made fun of at the fake prom.  Does that mean the other students would have been making fun of them at the regular prom?  How horrible.  Even when I was in high school, I knew better than that.

xoxob

Ugh. Parents are just as disgusting as children. Remember that woman who made a fake myspace page that led to the suicide of one of her child's peers?

...disgusting.

stina93446

I remember that the school canceled the prom to start because she wanted to bring her gf. Then all the students were upset and telling her "Thanks a lot for ruining my prom." I feel if the school hadn't canceled it in the first place, a lot of this hate crime could have been avoided. I don't know, I like to think that everyone accepts gay people now...it's weird when someone has a problem with another person's preference in the bedroom.

saxy414

That's what I understood it as--though that is absolutely horrible, and it's difficult for me to get my head around the thought processes being used there.  I come from a small, pretty conservative town, and I knew better than that, too.  There's really no excuse for what happened.

 

aerinpegadrak

Yeah, I saw this earlier today.  It's just disgusting how people will go out of their way to be cruel.

baystateapple

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_wedding-party_this-really-sad?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:37Discussion:6970fb32-b7d2-4241-86fd-c8a9cee48499Post:7fec1b03-d85f-4f27-bd6e-1e9cc2ba906a">Re: This is really sad</a>:
[QUOTE]Ugh. Parents are just as disgusting as children. Remember that woman who made a fake myspace page that led to the suicide of one of her child's peers? ...disgusting.
Posted by xoxob[/QUOTE]

Meghan Meier.  That was so incredibly sad.  That woman was completely sick and immature.

lalap69

Stina, unfortunately, I still think we're a long ways away from full acceptance.

This whole thing is disgusting.  I don't see what difference it makes if someone brings a same-sex date to prom.  It's a freakin' dance, not a live sex show.

megandjay

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_wedding-party_this-really-sad?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:37Discussion:6970fb32-b7d2-4241-86fd-c8a9cee48499Post:1bc1cb9f-624f-4e35-9ea7-e90067c527e6">Re: This is really sad</a>:
[QUOTE]That poor girl.  I can't believe those idiots were so cruel to her.  Parents and teachers "faking" prom so she couldn't go?  Sounds like a nasty adolescent trick out of a Sweet Valley High novel.
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]

wow, that just really brought me back a decade, sweet valley high novels...

LarissaAnn

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!  And I was so happy to see she won in court and would get to go.  Son of a...

Sorry, I am REALLY angry over this.  That's just bull.

emilykathleen511

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_wedding-party_this-really-sad?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:37Discussion:6970fb32-b7d2-4241-86fd-c8a9cee48499Post:3833b615-09d9-4dcb-9c8a-b71d461cd09c">Re: This is really sad</a>:
[QUOTE]ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!  And I was so happy to see she won in court and would get to go.  Son of a... Sorry, I am REALLY angry over this.  That's just bull.
Posted by LarissaAnn[/QUOTE]

<div>I know Larissa. 1 step forward, 2 steps back. GRRRR!!!! People make me angry.</div>