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You see, the Dallas Independent School District took about 5,700 fifth-grade guys to watch Red Tails, a movie about black fighter pilots during World War II. The girls stayed home and caught a different flick, Akeelah and the Bee, newser.com reports.

Now we don’t have anything against Akeelah. In fact, we’re pretty big fans. But what we’re wondering is why couldn’t the girls watch a movie about fighter pilots, too? A representative of the district said that the boys were taken because there wasn’t enough room in the movie theater for all of the students, and officials thought the boys would enjoy the movie more than their female counterparts.

Huh.

Apparently this isn’t the first time this particular school district has divided the sexes for gender-specific events.

Perhaps the most interesting note of all, though, is the subject matter of the film. Red Tails is about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of black aviators who flew for the U.S. military. These brave men were not allowed to fight alongside white men, yet they served despite the glaring inequality. Hmm…

by Brittany Taylor | 2/1/2016