Schoolgirls excluded from Dallas movie screening
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When 5,700 fifth-rate boys in Dallas' public schools recently went to see a talkie about black fighter pilots in World War II , the girls stayed in school and saw a contrasting movie instead.
One of the pilots is among those asking why.
A spokesman for the Dallas Outside School District said officials took only boys to see "Red Tails" Thursday because lacuna at the movie theater was limited. Jon Dahlander told The Dallas Morning Rumour that leaders of the district also thought boys would enjoy the movie more than girls.
"Red Tails" tells the joke of the Tuskegee Airmen, the legendary pilots during World War II who become the first black aviators to wait on in the U.S. military. The movie opened last month.
Some female students were shown a contrasting movie instead: "Akeelah and the Bee," about an 11-year-old girl who competes in a nationalist spelling bee.
Dahlander, who did not return several phone messages from The Associated Congregate, told the newspaper that the district often holds gender-specific events.
Source: Fox News