A teenage lesbian couple in Australia are changing schools after they were barred from attending a ball together.
Hannah Williams, 16, wanted to take her girlfriend Savannah Supski, also 16, to the event at Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar in Melbourne but the Year 11 student was told she could only attend the ball with a boy.
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She added: ”I put a lot of effort into trying to fix things. I had meetings with principals; looked through the Equal Opportunity Act; all my friends put posters up around the school and the teachers ripped them down. There was an easy solution; they just needed to let me go with my girlfriend.”
Her father Peter made a complaint to the Equal Opportunities Commission and met with school officials but decided not to take the case further because Hannah was becoming stressed.
But wait!
The principal of Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar, Heather Schnagl, said the aim of the ball was to encourage girls to socialise with boys and said that all the girls would bring female partners if one was allowed to.
I don't know what to say.
Thanks to Cathy again.
all the girls would bring female partners if one was allowed to
ReplyDeleteRequest permission to 1) be 16 again, and 2) in Oz.
;-)
Well, of course, I was 16 once and went to a Melbourne girls' grammar school. I'm just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, I think Ms Schnagl has actually come up with a sillier argument against taking girls being allowed to take their girlfriends to the prom than Constance MacMillan's school. Which is going some.
JCF, you have my permission. :-)
ReplyDeleteCathy, Ms Schnagl is very funny without even trying.
!HUH?!
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