Reply #52: This is only the beginning of this story - [View All]

[lynne]

- and we need to recheck it come spring as I bet you that they WILL have a prom.

This is an affluent section of the country and it is a private school. No doubt the tuition is Big Bucks. The principal doesn't seem to mind collecting his salary via the purses of those affluent parents and I imagine that an affluent parent or two of heartbroken senior girls who have planned for their senior prom since they was 6 years old will let him know that, too.

A few parental donors threaten to pull $$$ support . . . A memorial building promised begins to look shakey . . . Parents with underclass children find another private school and I bet you that the principal "reconsiders".

This could have been handled much better by the principal had he combined the prom with some sort of fundraising venture for homeless or hurricane victims or some other charity and have the funds that would have gone into excess partying go into those charities. But he chose to pull a power play.

Or tried to. He will cave because he is tied to the parents via THEIR wallets. I just bet.