You gotta read this:
Kenneth M. Hoagland had heard all the stories about prom-night debauchery at his Long Island high school: Students putting down $10,000 to rent a house in the Hamptons for a weekend bash. Pre-prom cocktail parties followed by a trip to the dance in a limo loaded with liquor. Fathers chartering a boat so their kids could go out on a late-night ‘booze cruise.’
Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts Enough was enough, Hoagland said. So the principal of Kellenberg Memorial High School fired off a 2,000-word missive to parents at the start of the school year informing them that the Catholic school would no longer put on the spring prom.
‘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,’ Brother Hoagland said, fed up with what he calls the ‘bacchanalian aspects’ of the prom.
‘Each year it gets worse — becomes more exaggerated, more expensive, more emotionally traumatic,’ he added. ‘We are withdrawing from the battle and allowing the parents full responsibility. (Kellenberg) is willing to sponsor a prom, but not an orgy.’
That. Is. Awesome.