"Party like it's 1776," printed on tickets for New Jersey high school's senior prom sparked an apology from the principal, who called the language "insensitive."
The Courier Post reports the Cherry Hill High School East senior prom tickets urged students to "party like it's 1776" during the event at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center.
Principal Dennis Perry said in a letter to the community posted on his Twitter account on Friday that some people were offended, and it was "insensitive and irresponsible" not to recognize that "not all communities can celebrate what life was like in 1776."
He says he especially wants to apologize to black students "who I have let down by not initially recognizing the inappropriateness of this wording."
Perry says prom attendees will receive commemorative tickets without the language.
Information from: Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, N.J.), http://www.courierpostonline.com/
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