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....After all these years. Wonder if Kevin Bacon will reprise his role, or if they'll find some new "rebel"

Some of the comments below the article (link) are quite amusing icon_e_wink.gif

Wifey says this is being picked up by the national media as the day went on......

Friday, May 08, 2009

Don't go to prom, school tells teen

Judson Palmer

By MARY KATE MALONE

Courier Staff Writer

A senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School's prom because the event involves dancing and rock music.

A Heritage School committee decided Wednesday that Tyler Frost, 17, will be suspended if he attends Saturday's dance because the school's policy forbids dancing, rock music, hand holding and kissing.

Frost plans to attend prom anyway with his girlfriend, a senior at Findlay High.

He would have received his diploma May 24 from the 84-student fundamentalist Baptist school at 2000 Broad Ave. in Findlay.

But Frost will now be suspended from classes and receive an “incomplete” on remaining assignments, according to Principal Tim England.

He will not be permitted to attend any graduation ceremonies with his class of four students, but will receive his diploma once he completes his final exams.

If Frost “is involved with alcohol or sex” at the prom, he will be expelled from Heritage, England said.

Frost's stepfather, Stephan Johnson, said he plans to file a lawsuit against the school.

Frost has attended Heritage Christian, a ministry of Calvary Baptist Church, since kindergarten.

Other than a detention in seventh grade, Frost has never had disciplinary problems, he said.

“He deserves to wear that cap and gown,” Johnson said.

According to the school handbook, rock music “is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people's hearts and minds.”

The school also forbids physical contact between girls and boys in grades 7-12.

Johnson believes those rules should not, and do not, apply outside the classroom. He said many students and their parents do not know the scope of the handbook's rules.

“How many people at that school know that when country music comes on, their kid could be expelled? Ninety percent of the school could be expelled,” Johnson said.

England said Frost agreed to the school's rules when he signed a statement of cooperation at the beginning of the school year.

“Our stand on this issue should be of no surprise to the student or his parents,” England said in a statement. “For the parents to claim any injustice regarding this issue is at best forgetful and at worst disingenuous. It is our hope that the student and his parents will abide by the policies they have already agreed to.”

England said he has never known a Heritage Christian student to attend Findlay's prom. He has been principal for 13 years.

Findlay High School requires students attending prom from other schools to get a signature from their principal.

England signed the form for Frost, but told him there would be “consequences” if he attended the dance, Frost said.

“I expected a short lecture about making the right decisions and not doing something stupid,” Frost said. “I thought I would get his signature and that would be the end.”

Instead, England took the issue to the School Committee, made up of church members, where they decided to suspend Frost.

“In life, we constantly make decisions whether we are going to please self or please God. (Frost) chose one path, and the School Committee chose the other,” England said.

Frost said he has never been to a dance before.

Craig Kupferberg, principal of Findlay High School, said he respects, but does not agree with, Heritage Christian School's view of prom activities.

“I don't see (dancing and rock music) as immoral acts,” Kupferberg said.

Malone: 419-427-8417,

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I think Findlay high school seniors should "attend" the Heritage graduation. Be sure to bring a big boom box and dance their hearts away. Hug everyone. The whole place would go up in flames? It would at least make the national news...

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^ also a true story

what were his parents thinking sending him to a school like that in the first place??? and how the heck does that school have a graduating class of 84?? My graduating class was only 66.

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^ also a true story

what were his parents thinking sending him to a school like that in the first place??? and how the heck does that school have a graduating class of 84?? My graduating class was only 66.

84 total students in the school.

Only 4 are graduating.

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ha. what a joke...I can't even begin to type my feelings about this especially since I attended a "christian school" with the same BS this kid is going through. every other word of my message would probably rhyme with tuck

:lol:

whodey is a great example.. no matter how strict they are in school, they're still gonna turn out bad.. look at whodey now!

:lol:

jk.. much love whodey! :D

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That is some retarded shit.

Another reason why I believe that organized religion is the devils work.

Saw Joel Osteen on a TV in a restaurant last night. No sound. That dude is scary. You know how they say that people blink alot when they lie? This dudes eyes were in a constant state of flutter. Creep.

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That is some retarded shit.

Another reason why I believe that organized religion is the devils work.

Saw Joel Osteen on a TV in a restaurant last night. No sound. That dude is scary. You know how they say that people blink alot when they lie? This dudes eyes were in a constant state of flutter. Creep.

Thats prolly just the meth. :rolleyes:

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Article today says it's getting coverage as far away as the Phillipines. Heard CBS wants to send a film crew for prom night

I'm just hoping to get Chris Penn's part as the big, goofy, lovable friend he teaches to dance by the end of the movie 04.gif

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