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What a spoiled, self-centered, entitled society we've become. So because this one girl doesn't have a "daddy" to go with, her and her mom decided to destroy things for everyone else. What a society we're becoming.



Rhode Island school bans father-daughter dances, says they break the law


Following a complaint filed by the ACLU, school officials in Cranston, R.I. have ended gender specific activities like father-daughter dances and mother-son ballgames to comply with state gender discrimination laws. WJAR's Katie Davis reports.


By NBC News staff

The school system in Cranston, R.I., announced it is banning traditional father-daughter and mother-son activities, saying they are a violation of the state's gender discrimination law, the Providence Journal reported late Monday.


Superintendent Judith Lundsten told the newspaper the decision was in response to a complaint from the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a single mother who said her daughter was not able to attend a father-daughter dance.

“This is 2012 and they [public schools] should not be in the business of fostering blatant gender stereotypes,” Steven Brown of the Rhode Island ACLU told WPRO News.

Rhode Island school bans father-daughter dances, says they break the law - U.S. News

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Harry Boy

I will only say that I can't say anything, I will get to worked up.

America is going completely nuts.

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RI Patriots fan

Why don't they just change the dance to parent/child or guardian/parent-child?

So now a kid can take whomever they want to the dance....problem solved.

Holy Diver

Then who would the punduits have to complain about?

PatsWSB47

I think the whole idea behind these kind of events is promote bonding between father/daughter, mother/son etc. Sometimes a daughter is left out of a fathers world due to work or incompatible interests etc. Sometimes it's hard for either to find the right opportunity to take down certain barriers. There has been a lot of literature that supports this kind of therapy and I think the ACLU is doing more harm than good with this.

PatsWSB47

I don't like this. The father/daughter relationship is different than a mother/daughter relationship. As a matter of fact I think each gender has a special relationship that is unique to each parent and child with each other. "I can't have a father dance so no one else can" is immature and ignorant as far as i'm concerned. I feel bad that some people can't enjoy what some others can but to deny a special, unique bond of someone else is just plain wrong. To manually break that up by destroying the special purpose for the dance is selfish.

RI Patriots fan

Who says that a Father and Daughter can't go to this dance together? No one is saying that Fathers and daughters still can't go to the dance together.

If you're a Father and you have a daughter, does it really matter who the other children bring or is it more important that you're with your daughter?

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

It pretty much says that's what they're going to do.

You're right...problem solved!

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

And a "family" dance would preclude a father from taking his daughter for some reason?

If a parent and a child have a "special relationship that is unique to each parent and child with each other" I don't see how attending or not attending one dance a year is going to affect that relationship. The relationship is either special or it is not - going to a dance didn't make it and not going to a dance isn't going to break it.

PatsWSB47

Of course they can but creating a special father/daughter dance is designed both honor the father-daughter relationship and in many cases be the ice breaker to get dads and daughters together. I think these kinds of events are Bringing other elements and family members along can weaken that goal.