Alabama's High School Proms From The Dark Ages

High school proms in Oxford, Alabama are like a trip back to the dark ages. Alabama's TV station WBRC-TV reported this week how 18 girls were accused of violating the prom dress code by wearing dresses either too short, or too low of neckline. 17 of the girls were paddled by school officials for the minor infraction of school rules, but one student chose suspension instead and made her story public with the TV news.

What the 18 girls did hardly rose to the level of fighting or other serious breaches of school conduct. They merely chose dresses that were likely subjectively chosen by some school officials as some breach of school conduct, that's all. And that's supposed to warrant an old fashioned dark ages school paddling? What's up?

High school proms are supposed to be fun. It's the last good memory of high school for many seniors. But it sure sounds like the dark ages back in Oxford.