Gadsden and Leon County high school parents host alternative prom
and last updated 2021-05-02 00:54:34-04
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â After weeks of work, two Gadsden and Leon County school parents organized a dance for Juniors and Seniors who would ve gone without one this year.
Deventric Sweet and Anika Hall say they wanted to make a COVID-safe prom, after the school canceled their student s dance.
Teens had to wear masks when they weren t sitting down, and pairs had to stay socially-distant.
Sweet said it broke her heart knowing students wouldn t have been able to share the same experiences she had growing up.
Two High School Students Heading to Their Prom Are Killed in Car Crash
On 5/2/21 at 11:32 AM EDT
Two high school students in Hamilton County, Indiana, died in a car crash while they were on the way to prom on Saturday evening.
Kalen Hart and Lendon Byram were en route to the Hamilton Heights High School prom at the Elite Banquet Center in Kokomo with two others when their vehicle crashed into an SUV.
Their deaths were announced in a Facebook post by Derek Arrowood, the superintendent of the Hamilton Heights School Corporation. Arrowood said all scheduled prom activities have now been canceled.
Some Central Coast schools now allowing prom, in-person graduation
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and last updated 2021-05-01 01:50:05-04
Now in the orange COVID-19 tier, some schools in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties will allow prom and in-person graduation ceremonies.
Melanie Nunez, a senior and ASB Executive President at Lompoc High School, was direct about what has been lost during the pandemic.
âWe have waited for this for so long and obviously theyâre milestones, at least for me as a senior,â she said.
Deputy Superintendant at Lompoc Unified School District Bree Valla described how different the prom in her district would be this year.
27 Apr 2021
A CEO who reportedly criticized a teenage boy in public for wearing a dress to prom has been fired from his Tennessee company.
Video recorded and shared online showed Dalton Stevens, a senior at Franklin High School, allegedly being criticized by a man identified as Sam Johnson, the former CEO of telemedicine company, VisuWell, WGN 9 reported Tuesday.
“I very much view clothes as genderless,” Stevens said, adding he and his boyfriend, Jacob Geittman, were at the Harpeth Hotel in downtown Franklin for pictures when Johnson walked up to them.
“Slander terms thrown towards me of like ‘You look bad,’ ‘You’ve got hair on your chest, you shouldn’t be wearing a dress,’ ‘You’re not a man,’ blah, blah, blah,” Stevens alleged.
Two hours later, it was back on.
Pfeiffer, whose daughter is a senior at Ephrata High School, had an inkling the cancellation announcement would come, as social gathering restrictions associated with COVID-19 have made it difficult for schools to plan a traditional prom. So, with the schoolâs blessing, she quickly finalized a reservation she had made at Clipper Magazine Stadium, home to the Lancaster Barnstormers baseball team and a popular destination for outdoor events during the COVID-19 pandemic, a month before.
Since then, the 45-year-old mother of four and a group of Ephrata parents have planned their own prom, following health and safety guidelines like wearing masks and social distancing when eating, with the school pitching in to sell tickets.