Posted on 03/02/2019 2:58:18 AM PST by blueplum
WANAQUE, N.J. — Some students at a New Jersey high school are upset that they won’t be able to make a grand entrance by taking limousines and luxury cars to their prom.
Lakeland Regional High School administrators sent a letter to parents this week stating that prom attendees must take school-provided and chaperoned coach buses to and from the venue in June.
Schools Superintendent Hugh Beattie says it’s a matter of safety and equity...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They did the same thing here. It was a huge impact on my buddie who owns a limo company. The prom was his business’ equivalent of other stores Christmas.
I am sure that the kids who couldn’t hire a limo they wanted will immediately convert to communism. (It must be loads of fun dictating to other people how they can spend their money.)
Wow. I wonder if the Superintendent will ride the bus and pay the fee.
Public education is institutionalized mediocrity. We should encourage schools to demonstrate this loudly and clearly ... because that's the only way some people will ever figure it out.
There is a good use of tax-payer funds!
It is vital to the student’s education that no one feels superior or inferior to some one else.
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Equity or equality?
Jeezow, people are in print media should be able to write cogent sentences. Oh, and spel...
I would encourage the kids to take a limo to and from the bus depot.
Also, who. Oops!
I wonder how the school would react, if the middle class white kids boycotted the school prom in favor of a private party the same night, which was invitation only.
Wait until they ban tuxedos & prom gowns, saying they are inherently unequal in quality and style. They will be issued prom uniforms and everyone will have an equally good time.
Pehaps they can load all of the kids onto box cars, and the theme of the prom can be, “Arbeit mach Frei”.
I think it is ‘equity’
from wiki: Social equity is a concept that applies concerns of justice and fairness to social policy. Since the 1960s, the concept of social equity has been used in a variety of institutional contexts, including education and public administration.
Also, the girls should forgo the gowns and dress in appropriately dowdy pant suits.
Dictatorial tyrants tr going to destroy established traditions.
Yeah, let them wear Mao suits to the prom. Ha!
The school is correct about this. It is for the safety of the students because limos are not safe vehicles.
Last year there was a limo accident in Upstate NY. I don’t recall how many were killed.
Turns out limos don’t have brake strength as normal cars do. To make a limo, a car is cut in two, the middle section is inserted and the brake lines connected. Limos are not safe.
Twenty: everyone in the limo plus some pedestrians into whom the limo crashed.
Buses ( tour bus, not school bus) to and from Prom and after prom party from school is how the very expensive private schools in Baltimore handle it.
Especially when you still use a limo that was deemed unsafe, overloaded and with an incompetent driver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoharie_limousine_crash
I suppose the school will decide which kids will be on which bus too so feelings wont be hurt if someone is on the wrong bus. This is just a way to end Prom. Many schools and towns want to end Prom and this is the way to do it.My daughter’s high school had the Prom in the school with a lock down overnight carnival type party following. It lasted one year. Now the school doesn’thave a Prom due to lack of interest. If you want to end something just ruin it so nobody wants to participate.
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