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Principal Cancels Prom

I just had to laugh at this one. A principle at a Catholic high school on Long Island decided that there was so much flagrant debauchery associated with the his school's prom, he up and canceled it. How dare he.

Students putting down $10,000 to rent a party house in the Hamptons. Pre-prom cocktail parties followed by a trip to the dance in a liquor-loaded limo. Fathers chartering a boat for their children's late-night "booze cruise."

Enough was enough, Hoagland said. So the principal of Kellenberg Memorial High School canceled the spring prom in a 2,000-word letter to parents this fall.

"It is not primarily the sex/booze/drugs that surround this event, as problematic as they might be; it is rather the flaunting of affluence, assuming exaggerated expenses, a pursuit of vanity for vanity's sake -- in a word, financial decadence," Hoagland said, fed up with what he called the "bacchanalian aspects."

"Each year it gets worse -- becomes more exaggerated, more expensive, more emotionally traumatic," he said. "We are withdrawing from the battle and allowing the parents full responsibility. [Kellenberg] is willing to sponsor a prom, but not an orgy."

And, of course, many parents and students are beside themselves. We are talking about high school kids here. I'm not sure what's crazier, parents who fund their underage kids wild depravity, or the fact that this principal's justifiable response was so outrageous it was a top story on CNN this morning.

 

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