Danielle, I agree with you that the segregation in Charleston had gone too far. It was 2008 before anything was done about it. That is too long for such a practice to be performed. The reason for this was the parents, as you said. They wanted to keep with tradition, so, they kept segregated the only thing they could, the prom. However, the students have been attending school together their whole lives. Most of them accepted any person, regardless of race. As you said, the students who did convey racism were influenced by the parents. I think that they were mostly afraid that their parents would disown them and so, they had to have racist attitudes. This does not make it right, however. Equality definitely plays a huge role in the film. It
