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Students attend school's first integrated prom
POSTED: 2133 GMT (0533 HKT), April 23, 2007
Story Highlights� Students of Turner County High School voted to have school-sponsored prom
� In the past, parents have organized private, segregated dances
� Principal Chad Stone says the official prom will become a yearly event
� Senior Class President James Hall led the movement for the integrated prom

By Kristi Keck
CNN
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ASHBURN, Georgia (CNN) -- Students of Turner County High School started what they hope will become a new tradition: Black and white students attended the prom together for the first time on Saturday.

In previous years, parents had organized private, segregated dances for students of the school in rural Ashburn, Georgia, 160 miles south of Atlanta.

"Whites always come to this one and blacks always go to this one," said Lacey Adkinson, a 14-year-old freshman at the school of 455 students -- 55 percent black, 43 percent white. (Watch students arrive at dance )

"It's always been a tradition since my daddy was in school to have the segregated ones, and this year we're finally getting to try something new," she said. (Audio slide show: A town breaks with tradition)

Adkinson's sister, Mindy Bryan, attended a segregated prom in 2001.

"There was not anybody that I can remember that was black," she said. "The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It's nothing racial at all."

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/turner.prom/index.html

[bixlerscott]

About time. It's only right to integrate diversity as it is the way to educate people to work with people. It is a gift to give a lifelong skill of teaching people to work with people, regardless of race, nationality, and religion. This is a critical skill to have in todays' world. Our colleges and universities in America have been doing well with this for many years, but the lower education systems are still largely segregated, not only by socio-economics, but by race itself. Such as the inner big cities being all black and the suburbs being nearly all white with some Asian and Indian students whose parents operate small businesses.
I just wonder what the inner city foreigners are doing with thier kids when it comes to schooling such as in Saint Louis, Detroit, and New York?

[igotthisguitar]

That's amazing. Wow!

[Alyallen]

[bixlerscott]

I already know. Well... it's not pretty. Sorry, no offense. Just how it is.