I do agree this is ridiculous but here is a rather humourous story about the same thing happening 10 years ago. The white and black students held separate proms...in a news interview, one of the students said it was because they couldn't come to an agreement on the music to be played. I said to my mom that all the white guys probably wanted to hear Lynryd Skynyrd. She responded "yes, and the black kids probably wanted to hear M J Hammer. "
I love when parents try to be hip and don't quite make it....I laughed for half an hour.