I think Proms should be abolished, make them entirely private affairs. I dont see why parents would let kids go these days.
...there is, of course, an answer to all of this nonsense, an answer so simple that the statists running public education fear it so much they focus their venom heavily on it...home schooling...
...it is far from a complete panacea, as it would turn much tradition on its ear, destroying, literally decades of extracurricular rivalries which in all honesty do much to fuse disparate elements in a town and provide the benefits of pride in accomplishment...also, if the majority of parents home schooled, the imbeciles among them would turn out additional imbeciles who might do worse things than this snivelling idiot (I’d just be devastated if I couldn’t wear my dress), and the discussion would be about other lunacies, promoted by parents who don’t take education seriously...
...on the whole, however, I think it needs to be done, and it will take a REVOLUTIONARY effort to do so...noting well the capitalized adjective...
at least they wouldn't be making all the kids into imbeciles, just their own