Reply #11: The school isn't blocking her from attending the prom.

[Xithras]

They canceled the entire prom outright. For everyone.

If they were having the prom and trying to exclude her, it would certainly be a civil rights issue. The problem is this...can a judge order a school to hold a prom when they have already cancelled it for the entire student body? Even if you could prove that they cancelled it specifically because of her (seems obvious, but the burden of proof in court would be high), I don't know that a court order commanding a school to hold an optional, extracurricular event would survive the appeals process.

If anything, precedent leans the other way. When facing civil rights issues, the courts have traditionally given schools two choices. 1. Include everyone. 2. End the activity. This school chose to end the activity rather than integrate. It sucks, but that was one of their legal options.