Legislation that would allow public schools to hold father-daughter dances and other gender-segregated activities has become law without the governor’s signature, despite complaints from women’s groups and civil libertarians that it is discriminatory. Governor Lincoln Chafee allowed the legislation to become law Thursday. Spokeswoman Christine Hunsinger told The Providence Journal that Chafee believes schools will carry out the spirit of the events, rather than limiting them based on gender. Cranston school officials canceled a father-daughter dance last year after the American Civil Liberties Union complained on behalf of a single mother whose daughter was not allowed to attend."
Also see:
An exemption is warranted for father-daughter dances
Panel to hear father-daughter bill
Bill to save father-daughter dances heads to vote in R.I. Senate
Senate votes to protect father-daughter dance
All the problems this country has, and that is what the Rhode Island legislature (and the Globe?) is concerned about?
Also see:
An exemption is warranted for father-daughter dances
Panel to hear father-daughter bill
Bill to save father-daughter dances heads to vote in R.I. Senate
Senate votes to protect father-daughter dance
All the problems this country has, and that is what the Rhode Island legislature (and the Globe?) is concerned about?
