Students Crown Special-Needs Classmates As Prom Queens & Kings
LatestWhen they’re not sexting, trying to be like Ke$ha, or having babies on reality TV, teenage girls can actually be really sweet, mature, and decent human beings. Two different graduating classes of seniors in two different states have crowned classmates with Down Syndrome as prom queens and king. In Loveland, Ohio Toni Alten-Crowe—who has been mainstreamed since preschool—was voted prom queen alongside Drew Anderson, another senior with Down Syndrome, as prom king. Of the crowning, fellow student Lauren Tipton said, “Everyone was excited about the result…Usually [people] just vote for their friends. Drew and Toni are friends with everybody.”