Fulton Mississippi: Mean kids, cowardly administrators and idiot parents.

Constance McMillan wanted to take her girlfriend to the high school prom. This is a public high school, a public institution that is responsible to all of its students.

The school said first said had to hide her identity-- by not appearing with her date. Then the school decided that rather then let her be herself at the prom, they would cancel the whole thing. Of course this was accompanied by what you expect from backwards high school students, jeers and threats and general meanness.

There was a court case, in which it was decided that the school had violated her civil rights-- although the judge declined to force the school to reinstate the prom.

Guess what happened last week-- even after it was decided that this type of discrimination is illegal (not to mention backwards and unethical).

The parents-- yes the idiot parents-- conspired with their kids to throw the ultimate cruel deception. They set up two proms.

One prom was attended by Constance and a couple of kids with special needs who apparently the cool kids wanted to exclude. Then there was a "secret" prom that was attended by most of the rest of her classmates.

It is the plotting, the cruelty and the extent of this deception that is shocking-- and the fact that parents were behind this cruelty. I suppose I could have accepted it if parents kept their kids from a prom because they didn't want them associating with people they disapprove of... but host a two whole proms with the express purpose of excluding a couple of classmates?

Can you imagine plotting such a cruel trick with your kids?