For some, it (the letter) was an eye-opener. Others feel relieved that the pressure is off of them. |
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. |
The students came to us ... after reading our letter, saying they understand there have been abuses and they accept that as a problem. They would just like to have an event that celebrates their four years together and the idea of a dinner cruise was agreeable to us. |
The thing that we're most pleased about is that this recommendation came from the students. |
We felt that what the prom had become went against the moral and spiritual lessons we were trying to teach their children. |
We watched a pattern develop. Twenty years ago, seniors went to the beach after the prom and then to someone's house for breakfast. From that, it's turned into a weekend-long orgy that every year has become incrementally more excessive. |