School Settles with Mississippi Teen for $35K

PROM NIGHT

Updated Apr. 24, 2017 6:32PM EDT / Published Jul. 20, 2010 1:00PM EDT

In an ending even better than Footloose, the Itawamba School District has agreed to pay 18-year-old Constance McMillen $35,000 for discriminating against her. Rather than allow the teen to bring her girlfriend to the school's prom, the school canceled it instead. McMillen says she was taken to a “sham prom” while the rest of the students partied elsewhere. The school district has agreed to follow a non-discrimination policy, though says the settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing. McMillen said of the outcome: "I knew it was a good cause, but sometimes it really got to me. I knew it would change things for others in the future and I kept going and I kept pushing."

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School Settles with Mississippi Teen for $35K