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Chris Selley: Some tough lessons about real life for grads with cancelled proms

Officialdom let them down. They stepped up. Welcome to the real world!

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In October, Brooklin High School in Whitby, Ont. became the latest public school to cancel its prom, along with two others in the same Durham District School Board (DDSB). This is part of an ongoing trendon both sides of the border, and some of the arguments against prom are tremendously depressing if not downright ridiculous: The DDSB cites “safety concerns, the time involved in planning, … the challenges of safe supervision, and the increasing concern about liability and risk to students.” You hear tales of “staff burnout,” because teachers are so famously and tremendously hard done by.

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You could use those arguments against secondary school itself, surely. Maybe someday soon they will.

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