School District Bans Father-Daughter Dance

A Rhode Island school district has banned father-daughter dances, along with mother-son activities, saying such events violate the state's prohibition on gender discrimination. Rhode Island's Providence Journal reported that the Cranston school district made the move to ban the activities after the ACLU sent a letter to the district on behalf of a single mother who complained that her daughter could not attend a father-daughter dance at her school.

The district's superintendent, Judith Lundsten, “said school attorneys found while federal Title IX legislation banning gender discrimination gives an exemption for 'father-son' and 'mother-daughter' events, Rhode Island law doesn't,” reported the Journal. In a letter to school organizations Lundsten acknowledged that while “many of these events have long traditions, and for many parents these types of gender-based events are not an issue … this is a public school system and under no circumstances should we be isolating any child from full participation in school activities and events based on gender.” She admonished the groups to be “all-inclusive when planning your events.”

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004047180339 John Adams

This who pro-queer, anti-family business is becoming too much. Someone MUST put a stop to it!!
- http://twitter.com/jude83268949 jude
  
  We need to bring back our founding fathers so they can kick-ah's and explain what freedom of speech, right to assemble mean to the citizens of this great country.
  1 person complains and they rewrite/remove the laws, we the people have been complaining for 4 years and we don't see anyone removing the biggest law breaker in over 225 years.
  - Granny
    
    Amen!
- Granny
  
  We need to get the family unit back in this country and vote out Socialists who are trying to destroy it.
Good grief!

And once again we bow down! For goodness sake explain to your child what the circumstances are or get a grandparent/uncle or aunt to go in place of the parent. That's what I did because my husband couldn't go to one of these dances because of work. Quit taking away the things people enjoy because a few make an issue of it!
- http://twitter.com/jude83268949 jude
  
  Sorry too late, that is not what she wanted, didn't want anyone else to enjoy their father/daughter relationship. I feel sorry for this kid of hers, why doesn't she has a daddy, he left, died, divorced, or whatever reason, she could have asked a male friend, cousin, uncle, brother, boss to fill in and made this child feel special for one night even if he was not her real daddy, NOOO she had to ruin it for everyone else, SELFISH, now her child will grow up realizing because of her no one had a special night out with their father all because of her.
wolmoon7

Millions of girls across the nation have incredible memories of father/daughter dance nights. The girls are pampered and treated as queens for a night regardless of race, looks, size, characteristics and enjoy a fantastic night of "being the #1". What an incredible feling for a young girl and a very lasting memory.
Now…it appears that the girls will no longer be allowed to have that feeling, experience and memory because of one (or a few) that raise cain because their daughter does not have a father to taker her child.
For God's sakes…what are we allowing to have happen to our once awesome country? If there is no "Dad", the dances I have been to have allowed older brothers, uncles, or grandfathers to take the girls and let them experience that special night.
Come ON America…..let's get a grip here. Enough is enough!!
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Sandy-Whitlow/100001376587397 Sandy Whitlow
  
  No. There is no such thing as #1 at our gov'mint skools. We are all champions, winners and possible homosexual, we just don't know it yet. Everything and Everyone is Okie-Dokie. Like our prez said, just because you work hard, there's lots of hard working people who didn't have the gov'mint make a business for them.
  Until parents stand up to this bull-klsajff, it will NOT stop until our children rank last after the kids on Mars.
  - wolmoon7
    
    Oh…excuse me Sandy…I forgot. We don't have #1's anymore because it might offend the ones that don't even try. Everybody gets rewards now, just for showing up.
    Silly me. :)
  - Granny
    
    I agree Sandy and this is just one more reason to defund and get rid the Dept. of Uneducation and get the government out of our public schools where they have no business being in the first place. School should be between parents and teachers and not government idiots!
- Curry
  
  Agreed – the problem is that if these people don't toe the politically correct cause-du-jour, they will lose their jobs. Such is the nature of our school systems – the staff and teachers have no problem getting paid by the godless communists who are deliberately destroying the system – and at the same time constantly admonishing their students to strive to be top-drawer thinkers, but staff and teachers themselves refusing to see the hypocrisy and the evident moral destruction of the character and the future of their students…
http://profile.yahoo.com/KNNJO5C5WIQ7TFET4D22H74E7U MD

A healthy relationship between a son and mother and a daughter and father leads to a stable successful future with less mental instability, less divorce, less child abuse, less physical sicknesses and the list goes on. Of course it also reenforces the marriage between one man and one woman. Wow, now the real issue shows up. .
- Granny
  
  Doc I agree with you. As a divorced mother of two I had to play both rolls and that was very difficult. However, I made the best of it and went camping, PTA Meetings, dances and many other events with both my daughter's. When it came to the Father/Daughter dances, however, I called on my male friends and they gladly took my daughter to the dance. By the way, I also walked both my daughter's down the aisle on their Wedding Day. It was the proudest moment of my life. I know this isn't typical, but my daughter's are both awesome mom's and I do think that I deserve the credit for that.
TxPastor

Political correctness and fear of offending or discriminating against someone has gone to its absurdity. No father/daughter dance some girls don't have fathers. No peanut butter sandwiches because some cultures don't eat sandwiches. Where will this go: no rice because it is racist against Asians, no beans or burritos b/c it is racists against Latinos, no shoes b/c Africans don't wear shoes and some can't afford good shoes. Hey, no more books b/c some are against cutting down trees. No more computers b/c some oppose technology. And on and on….
How about banning football, basketball and soccer teams because everyone can't play on the team. See how that flies!!!! Come on, it is time to stop coddling these kids.
You get rejected in love, in jobs and other areas of life. They need to learn that life is not always fair and you have to do your best with what you are given.
- Good grief!
  
  Trust me it's coming if we continue on this path!
- Granny
  
  Yes just look now we have the First Female and the USDA telling our children that their one size fits all school menus are good for them, Not!
ounbbl

School should hold gay dancing party, instead. The final paradise is coming on the earth for homo hedonicus. By the way, France is banning the word 'mother' and 'father', replaced with 'parent' from the official documents. http://ow.ly/e4DZB
- Granny
  
  I don't live in France, but I am sure they will try to do the same thing here and it is up to us to stop them.
Mys77

So in other words… lets violate and punish all the girls who would benefit from being close to their fathers because of the one single mother who is bitter and angry and will never be happy unless all other people are unhappy??? This is ridiculous… this mother is upset that her daughter couldn't attend this event… well now she still can't…so what has this accomplished??? Nothing… except more cowardice and bitterness toward yet another positve event at school!!!! Shame on these administration that get threatened…. The ACLU is a bottomless evil pit…. STOP THE MADNESS AND CRUSH THEM…TAKE THEM TO COURT…. every school… and break them!!!!!
Evermyrtle

Imagination not discrimination is the problem. How is there any harm whatsoever come of a mother daughter or/and father son activities going to be in any way a discrimination on anybody? It has come to the point where one rules not the majority. It is not the majority's fault that the girl does not have a father. Is it because of bad choices of the mother that the entire school has to pay penalty or did the father die or is maybe away, somewhere. Our country has lost it power to reason fairly or to reason, at all. It would shame me enormously if I knew I was disallowing the whole county of children to lose the chance to have these lovly, get togethers.
- Granny
  
  Obviously this mother doesn't care about the other the children as she has shown herself to be a very selfish individual and is raising her daughter to be the same way. Maybe this mother shouldn't be raising a child.
BrianMccleaf

What a loss for families
Charles R

How sad its time to grow up and realize not everyone can do all things people can,t throw hissy fits because they can,t go . I'm 57 years old ,all I see is a lot of 30 plus kids.
Silentio

Another of hundreds of reasons to dump the corrupt, anti-family, anti-Christian, public school system.
http://www.monster-island.net/ kushibo

You guys need to read up on this before you shoot your mouths off. The single mother who complained was not looking to deny others the right to go. Rather, she wanted her own child to go and in the end she was able to take her daughter and she did.

The ACLU action, however, went forward. But all it is is a letter to the school district, to which the district decided to cave. Now they are working on getting an exemption for such dances. This is not some horror story as some of you are taking it.

I think some of you are being harsh on the mother (and by extension, the daughter). There are myriad reasons a woman might be a "single mother." Some are widows. Some are divorcées.

Still others are women who got pregnant out of wedlock. Now before you condemn her, you should recognize that in most such cases this comes not from a decision to deliberately have a baby without a father, but rather the decision to go ahead and have a baby even though the father will not — or should not — be around.

Think about that a minute. This is a woman who could have chosen abortion over single motherhood, but she chose the latter. Instead of condemning her (and her desire that her daughter not be left out of special events), commend her for making the choice not to have an abortion.

This mother is the face of those who are doing the very thing we hope they will do.
- Granny
  
  One more sue the %@$& out the Athiest Communist Liberal Union every time they do this. Break these Commies!
  - http://www.monster-island.net/ kushibo
    
    Go ask Rush Limbaugh what he thinks about the ACLU.
fliteking

Soon they'll mandate the daughter-daughter dance in order to graduate.

Liberals are sick basturds.
piccer

…so let's just offend the majority of families who DO have fathers and daughters or mothers with sons. Grow up people!
Granny

I am sick and tired of the minority in this country having the final say in anything. Does this mother not have any male friends who would gladly have taken this girl to the dance? It seems like when we cross the Mason-Dixon line everyone kowtows to the minority fringe in this country. Enough!
littledove517

And I thought there was a complaint that the parents do not spend enough time with their children! Here is a chance to do so and a few want it taken away. Maybe they would like to see these children on the street, doing drugs, getting drunk for it seem many do not like anything that is positive these days. There is always someone somewhere that would be willing to step in and take a girlboy to a dance. Don't these children have aunt's, uncle, brother's, sister's, friends? America needs to wake up and those of us who oppose such as this needs to find out how we can stop the few who caused such as this. I know it seems as if the majority does not have a voice anymore but we need to try and it and see. One can put a thousands to flight and and ten can put ten thousands to flight. His word is still the truth and it still stands even in this polluted world that is going down hill pretty fast. A rally was held by Muslims Fri. Sept 28th in Dearbourn Mi. demanding there be a blasphemy law put in order for anyone who spoke against Muhammad and Allah. They are now trying to take our freedom of speech from us. We now have other nations we now have nations telling us what we should and should not do due because of lack of leadership. Muslims are in the U.S. dunking the cross in their urine, and telling us what we should do in our country. My the Lord have mercy on this nations and our children who will have to live here after we are dead and gone. Satan is on the war path and he is seeking to kill and destroy all that is good and is using mankind to do his will, and if we allow him to do so he will destroy it all for that is his goal.
Mary in Wy

My father passed away when I was 6, and my mother had to rear her 2 girls alone. My school did not have a father/daughter dance, but they did have a few father/daughter outings and my mother never complained. She would find something for the 3 of us to do that day to take our minds off of it. There were many times I felt sad that there was no daddy to go and do things with, and so many of my friends ridiculed their fathers for being lame or nerds, which would hurt me, but I never wanted them to know the feeling of missed opportunities that I knew too well, because I knew how important family time was. Shame the ACLU doesn't have a clue at best, or at worst knows all to well how important these things are and are purposefully trying to destroy what little family values we have left. Parents need to step up and stand their ground or lose an rights you have left in rearing your own children. Enough is enough.