Smart chick not wanted at school prom
Graduating 15-year-old told she cannot attend high school prom
Zahra Nasr-Azadani started the year as a sophomore but aquired enough credits to jump a year and is an effective junior now. She’s actually in a position to graduate completely and has petitioned to do so. This being her last year in high school she wanted to go to the prom. No dice.
The Emporia School Board rejected a request from 15-year-old Zahra Nasr-Azadani, who appealed a school policy that allows only juniors and seniors to participate in the prom.
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The board consulted with the school’s student council, and the junior class decided not to make an exception, saying the prom is only open to students who enter the school year as juniors or seniors.
An exception to the policy had been given previously to a student in the same position but not this time. Zahra and her 4.0 average will be sitting at home on prom night.
There are a few questions. How similar was the previous case? Will she really graduate? Is a school council allowed to make rules and declare exemptions without outside interference? Is there any sexual, sexual preference, age, racial, or religious discrimination? What difference does her 4.0 average make?
There are a lot of questions with this one. Unfortunately I’ve been unable to come up with any contact information.
This is one of those things I totally don’t see as important.Sorry,I can’t see what’s so important about a Prom to even make a fuss out of the situation?Tradition?Well,she’ll get over it!I have to live here too without MY traditions.Shit happends.Shes a good student,that should weight more then weather or not one goes to a Prom.
Just my opinion.:-)
Homeschool. Then you won’t wonder how you’re getting to school in the morning.
It’s getting so that public education isn’t worth the aggravation anymore. You’re better off staying at home or going to a private school where the administrators exercise some common sense and you are treated as an individual.
The above post should have been posted under the story about the girl with the stun gun in her car. Sorry.
LW, I can understand that you think prom is relatively unimportant. Regardless of its importance to you, it is one of the activities offered at the school, and she is being prevented from her one opportunity of participating.
What if she could not attend graduation because of her ‘year of attendance’? Would that be sufficient cause for upset? That is not in any way an event that advances education, either.
I had the diploma and gratuated…thats what they later cared for on my job resumes,not the prom or celebration fuss.
I still don’t see why I should have to be upset now….I STILL don’t feel sorry for her.I STILL don’t see the importance of the prom.
I wonder what the college she might apply to will account her for more:
The prom or her 4.0?
Hmmm…tough one,eh?
Being less than a year to graduation is a good enough definition of a junior or senior. That she wants to attend is good enough reason for HER.
It is that time of the year that we get a deluge of stories about school officials making all sorts of rulings regarding yearbook content and attendance at proms and graduation ceremonies
It is that time of the year when we are deluged with reports of school officials making all sorts of rulings regarding yearbooks, proms, senior trips, etc. An end can be put to their asinine and preposterous actions by removing the events from their jurisdiction by privitizing them. Let the students, with parental guidance, contract with outside providers. After all, It is the kids’ dance, not the school’s; the kids’ yearbook, not the school’s
Frankly, the junior class is just jealous, I have no doubt, so I have no sympathy for their adherence to the rules.
High school is still a time, in many schools, for the less able to find a way to stick it to the more able. This story is not about Zahra’s (justified) hurt feelings, but about the jealous juniors and the gutless administration who won’t just simply say: “She goes, and tough if you don’t like it.”
Gutlessness and jealousy, all in one story. Isn’t high school fun?
Okay - think of it this way. Aren’t parents and authority figures supposed to reward good behavior and punish the bad? If so, is a 4.0 GPA good or bad? I wouldn’t hesitate to say that it is good; yet, because of this decision, many students may get the wrong idea, and perhaps high GPAs may become more scarce. Since this may be her last year, of course, it should have happened that she could go to her prom - who else would care, except her, some friends, and her date? Governments bodies and beuracracies are too concerned these days about not settings precedents or actual thinking when it should be that we make way for those who can achieve those higher standards. I’m actually starting to think it should be the students running the school - at least they show some potential capacity for individual thought.
I tried to check on this story but have been unable to verify it. Where did the facts come from?