Diamondeye wrote:
Rafael wrote:
I agree with what the school did. Proms are a misappropriation of funds anyway. With the way our public education system is performing in the aggregate, we could use less proms.
Generally you have to buy a ticket to go to the prom; they aren't free.
Even if they're subsidized (which is probably true) they aren't a "misappropriation of funds"; there's nothing
inherently illegal or unethical about them, nor does the performance of the public education system have anything to do with whether they should exist. There's no good reason to think money spent on social events would improve education if spent on directly educational matters, since only the most "Won't it be great if schools get all the money and we buy bombers with nake sales" **** school-wankers think it's purely a money issue.
On the other hand, I WOULD say that if this school district is asking for a levy this year or otherwise in financial straights, it needs to stop subsidizing proms as a
situationally inappropriate expendiature of funds.
Generally, you do. However, school districts like the one where I came from have a budget appropriatde to a committee chaired and filled by students from which the majority of money is allocated from the general district budget. While not completely funded as a budget item, it was certainly subsidized.
The reason being is simply many Junior and Seniors simply did not buy prom tickets: either they didn't attend or they scored above "proficient" in one or more areas in the statewide assessment test (the test that determines accreditation and therefore is a huge source of budgetary revenue) and were issued a free ticket as an incentive to do well on the test.
Me, I just liked coming up with the most smartass answers I could think up on the fly for the standardized tests.
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