{"id":5661,"date":"2005-09-30T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/09\/30\/sick-prom-culture\/"},"modified":"2005-09-30T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T03:35:00","slug":"sick-prom-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/09\/sick-prom-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick prom culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revertedxer.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/catholic-school-here-on-long-island.html\">Gen X Revert<\/a> points to this story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/longisland\/ny-liprom0930,0,2430777.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines\">Catholic School on Long Island<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;School administrators, reacting to what they called a &quot;sick&quot; prom culture that was out of control, announced in a letter this month to parents that senior prom was canceled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;Basically, it has become an event in American culture that has all the trappings of excess,&quot; said school principal Brother Kenneth Hoagland. &quot;It is not consistent with our philosophy as a Catholic school.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Last year, the school appealed to parents and stopped 46 Kellenberg seniors from spending $20,000 to rent a house for a post-prom weekend in the Hamptons&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;Hoagland said they have invited students to come up with alternate ideas for a school-sponsored event that are consistent with the goals of a Christian education.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">He also point to a couple letters on their Kellenberg Memorial High School&#8217;s site in reference to the Prom and the September one is full of common sense, Christian perspective, and an indictment of the prom culture. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellenberg.org\/Resources\/PDF%20Files\/prom-september.pdf\">Evil PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">KMHS is willing to sponsor a prom,  but not an orgy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">and<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Some ask about a &#8220;compromise.&#8221; What is there to compromise? Sanity, proportion,modesty, common sense?<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Bravo to Father Philip K. Eichner, S.M.<br \/>\nand Brother Kenneth M. Hoagland, S.M. for telling the truth with such clarity and for offering truly a Christian education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen X Revert points to this story about a Catholic School on Long Island. &quot;School administrators, reacting to what they called a &quot;sick&quot; prom culture that was out of control,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}