Posted on: 1:24 pm, September 25, 2012, by Sarah Clark, updated on: 01:36pm, September 25, 2012
PACIFIC, Mo. ? Country music singer Rickie Lee Tanner is outraged after learning students at Pacific High School allegedly planned to humiliate his mentally challenged daughter during this Saturday?s homecoming parade.
According to KTVI, Tanner said his 15-year-old daughter came home one day excited, saying she had been elected to the homecoming court. Tanner said he and his wife became suspicious because his daughter is mentally challenged and has the mentality of a 10-year-old and is not well-received by her peers.
Tanner said after the school principal was slow to respond, he conducted his own investigation and learned students were allegedly planning to throw eggs and quack like a duck when his daughter?s float went by in the parade. Tanner said it?s known that his daughter has a pet duck she considers her friend.
The Tanners have requested the homecoming dance be canceled in light of the allegations.
Further north in Detroit another teen girl was reportedly chosen to be in the homecoming court as a joke.
Whitney Kropp, 16, had been ridiculed in school and on Facebook, according to her mother, Bernice Kropp. What started out as a nasty prank in the small farming community of West Branch, Mich., turned into an outpouring of support. Word spread and others across the nation heard about ?Team Whitney? ? a Facebook support page with nearly 55,000 likes and counting. The creator ? a mother who?s never met Whitney, but has children who have also experienced bullying.
?I did this to bring awareness to the severity of bullying in our society,? she writes. ?I did this so that Whitney would know that she was loved. I did this to get the community to pay attention. I did this so more parents would pay attention. I want people to understand that education starts at home. Teaching morals and values STARTS AT HOME.?
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