- Designing prom tickets should have been an easy task in the scope of planning the prom, but not the case for one local school. 
 
 The principal of Cherry Hill High School East is apologizing, after some students were offended by language on the tickets. 
 
 FOX 29 spoke with the student body vice president. She said the ticket slogan was produced and approved by a diverse committee of students. She said the theme was American Independence and the prom committee meant no harm. 
 
 “We thought it would be fun to do a play on the Prince song “Party Like It’s 1776” because of the Constitution Center,” said Madison Vogel, Cherry Hill High School East student body Vice President. 
 
 That’s where Cherry Hill High School East’s senior prom will be held next week. 
 
 The catchy line – “Party Like It’s 1776” – has prompted Principal Dennis Perry to apologize. 
 
 Perry tweeted out a letter which reads in part: 
 
 “It was insensitive and irresponsible not to appreciate that not all communities can celebrate what life was like in 1776. I especially apologize to our African American students.” 
 
 Vogel said students got the letter on Friday, the last day prom tickets went on sale. 
 
 “We want everyone to be included. It’s our senior prom. We don’t want anyone to be offended,” Vogel stated. 
 
 “We’ve been together for 4 years and we’re close and we do have intense conversations where people don’t agree,” Madison said. 
 
 But, offense was taken. Civil rights advocates told a local newspaper while the intent may not have been to upset minority students, but celebrate American independence, the slogan brings to mind a painful part of United States history for many community members. A pain that is still raw for many members of the community. 
 
 As for Madison, she said the class has designed a new ticket, one she hopes is inclusive of all and the student body is looking to learn and move forward from the controversy. 
 
 “We’re just really trying to bring our senior class together one more time before we graduate,” Vogel said. ||||| Miss America has suggested officials at a Pennsylvania high school reconsider their decision to suspend a student for approaching her at a school assembly and asking her to be his prom date, the beauty queen said on Saturday. 
 
 The disciplinary action taken by school administrators in York against the 18-year-old senior made national headlines, and generated sympathy for the young man on social media. 
 
 A video of Central York High School senior Patrick Farves approaching 2014 Miss America Nina Davuluri on Thursday at a school assembly was posted on a local newspaper's website. 
 
 It shows Farves walking up to Davuluri bearing a plastic flower and ask her to his prom, as the crowd of students erupts in laughter and cheers. 
 
 Aaron Showalter/New York Daily News Davulari said she hoped the school board would ‘reconsider’ its decision to suspend the student that asked her out. 
 
 "I was flattered by the gesture, although I am unfortunately unable to attend due to my travel schedule," Davuluri said in a statement posted to the pageant's Facebook page. 
 
 "I later learned of the disciplinary action taken and reached out to the school in hopes that they will reconsider their decision," she said. 
 
 Administrators had heard rumors Farves was planning to make the bold gesture of approaching Davuluri and warned him not to do so, Farves said in a phone interview on Saturday. 
 
 Jason Plotkin via T A Pennsylvania high school teen, Patrick Farves, was suspended for asking Miss America Nina Davuluri to prom. 
 
 "By that time, my mind was already set," he said. "I was already in the zone." 
 
 Farves was given a three-day in-school suspension, which requires him to sit in a classroom and work alone. He said he now feels bad his stunt overshadowed efforts by Davuluri - the first-ever Indian-American Miss America pageant winner - to promote diversity. 
 
 "She was trying to get across a very strong message - about how it's not about your beliefs or the color of your skin, but who you are," he said. 
 
 Jason Plotkin via T Farves faced 3 days suspension for his bold declaration. 
 
 Farves, who said his mother is white and his father is black, also said he regretted his action because school officials worked hard to organize the event. 
 
 While he has scores of new Twitter followers and Facebook friend requests, Farves said he remains without a date for his school's May 10 prom. 
 
 School officials issued a statement on Central York High's Facebook page, defending the decision to suspend Farves. 
 
 Aaron Showalter/New York Daily News Nina Davuluri is the second Miss New York in a row to win Miss America and the first of Indian descent. 
 
 "It is not our practice to discipline a student for asking someone - even Miss America - to a school dance," the statement said. "However, it is our practice to set expectations for student behavior, to communicate those expectations and rules to students and families and to ensure those rules are followed within our schools." 
 
 A school spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Davuluri's statement. 
 
 On a mobile device? Click to watch the video. ||||| I may need to rethink that whole private schools generally working out better than public schools thing… 
 
 ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – They’re calling it “prom-munism.” Seniors at an Albuquerque school want their prom to have a Communism theme. Seniors at Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School near I-25 and Paseo del Norte voted online this week for the theme of their prom this year. “They wanted prom-munism, so that’s what got voted for the most,” said senior Sarah Zachary. She voted for “A Night in the Reef,” because the prom is expected to take place at the Albuquerque Aquarium on April 25. “We have a lot of jokesters in our grade, so they wanted it to be funny and a lot of them are really intense with politics,” Zachary said. 
 
 I’m going to include the video report from the local TV station below which has a lot more in terms of details and interview segments than the text article on their website. It’s impossible to say how much of this is just a group of juveniles with a really poor sense of humor or if there are some seriously poisonous currents running around under the surface here. It’s rather curious that the reporter mentioned some students who called the theme inappropriate and “a very powerful and destructive idea” but said they only wished to speak on condition of anonymity. Since when do high school kids hesitate to call each other idiots on a daily basis? 
 
 The school’s executive director, Sam Obenshain, doesn’t inspire the greatest amount of confidence during his interview either. While it doesn’t show up in the text version, he wanted to assure everyone that he was talking to the students and making sure they understood what they were doing. 
 
 He wants the students to understand that communism can generate negative reactions. 
 
 Wait… communism can generate negative reactions? When did this one come up for debate? Does he describe ISIS as having controversial engagement practices? But hey… it’s all about the children, right? And as he put it, making sure that their voices are heard. 
 
 In the end, of course, this comes back to the parents just as it does in any school question. There’s a breakdown in communication going on in at least some of these homes if there were enough seniors willing to vote for this to make up a majority, or even a plurality. Jokes are fine, and having some fun at your prom should be encouraged, but this is no laughing matter. 
 
 The video of the full report follows.
– Florida isn't the only state that's home to a problematic prom this year. New Jersey's Cherry Hill High School East is grabbing headlines over prom tickets that featured "inappropriate" wording. The Courier Post reports that tickets for the prom, to be held at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia this week, contained a call to "party like it's 1776"—a time in US history that not all Americans can celebrate. "We thought it would be fun to do a play on the Prince song ... because of the Constitution Center," the student body VP tells Fox 29, but not everyone found the end result so fun. "I am writing to apologize for the hurt feelings this reference caused for members of our school family," Principal Dennis Perry wrote in a letter tweeted Friday. "I especially apologize to our African American students, who I have let down by not initially recognizing the inappropriateness of this wording," he continued. He says that going forward, "a diverse group of people" will have input on communications disseminated to the entire school. As for the tickets, new commemorative ones will be printed with the offending words removed, and Perry says students won't need to hand over a ticket to gain entry, as the school has a list of those who have purchased tickets. It's not the first racial flap at the school, which is about 6% black: The VP of the Cherry Hill African American Civic Association notes the school's production of Ragtime, which includes the N-word, caused a dust-up last year. (This Utah teen's prom dress also caused an uproar.)