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Gay high school student suspended for trying to bring boy to homecoming dance
Lance Sanderson is getting an unexpected week off from school.
He didn’t try and cut class, cheat on a test or sass a teacher.
What he did was try to bring a male date to the Christian Brothers High School homecoming dance in Memphis, Tennessee.
‘When I arrived at school today, the administration told me to stay home for the week,’ Sanderson tweeted on Monday (28 September).
Sanderson said after being at school for an hour, an administrator told him that the administration at the Catholic school ‘had 890 other students to worry about’ and could not deal with him, he wrote in a letter detailing what had happened to him.
‘You won’t let me dance with my date and you won’t let me go to class now either,’ he wrote. ‘I had hoped that today would be one for positive conversation going forward. Instead, I was sent home. I haven’t done anything wrong and haven’t hurt anybody. I want to be welcomed back to the school building … and I want this mean-spirited semi-suspension ended, so that I can do my classwork like anybody else.’
According to school policy, students ‘may attend the dance by themselves, with other CBHS students or with a girl from another school.’ Boys from other schools cannot attend ‘for logistical reasons.’
Sanderson had spoken to an official last year to make sure it was OK, and says he was told the school wouldn’t discriminate. But when that official left, he sayshas been facing ‘harsh opposition’ from the school.
‘They said specifically as a Catholic school, they couldn’t support that… and that they struggled with the idea of me taking a guy to homecoming or prom,’ Sanderson told WHBQ-TV last week.
The school claims the reason why they do not accept boys from other schools is because it could cause ‘problems’ and insist homophobia is not tolerated at the school.
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