Nonbinary students were crowned prom royalty. Then came the threats.
Dai’Sean Conley and Rosie Green couldn’t hear the booing last month as they were crowned prom king and queen. They were too wrapped up in crying, clapping and soaking in the screams from a largely supportive crowd of fellow high school seniors.
“I was so joyous,” Conley told The Washington Post.
But the boos were there, and foreshadowed what was to come.
After a weeks-long campaign, Conley and Green, who both identify as nonbinary, were elected prom queen and king, respectively, at Kettering Fairmont High School’s senior prom on April 22. Their coronation during the annual rite of passage has since erupted into controversy, violent threats and the arrest of a 42-year-old man accused of threatening all LGBTQ+ students at the high school in Kettering, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton.
It’s one of the most recent examples of how LGBTQ+ issues are roiling K-12 schools around the country. The controversy has reached into nearly every aspect of the education system, including curriculum, bathroom usage, extracurricular activities, book selection, classroom discussion topics, and, as in the case of Conley and Green, the students themselves.
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This 42 year old dudebro probably doesn't even have kids in the school. He's just looking to make trouble.
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