A step in the right direction is still a step, even if it’s only one school taking it.

Curt Jester reports on a Catholic school in Long Island that has cancelled prom

The decision was prompted in part by the prom house frenzy of past years, said administrators in the letter. Students pool funds to rent a house in the Hamptons for an overnight post-prom stay that school officials said has devolved into a hyper-MTV orgy. 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. Administrators said that didn’t stop students from renting houses.

"Nothing changed," the letter said.

So this year, rather than encourage the "bacchanalian aspects of the prom — alcohol/sex/drugs," the school opted to simply drop it. "It is so much beyond our control that it is mere tokenism to put our name on it," administrators said

It’s not just the Boys and Girls Gone Wild aspect – it’s the total expense – hundreds of dollars on dresses, tuxes, limos, dinner. Ridiculous.

Here’s the school website, with links to letters from both March and September regarding prom.

Kathy Shaidle makes the excellent point:

Once upon a time, when entertainment options were limited, I guess proms gave kids a rare chance to dress up, socialize and blow off steam.

Today, all kids DO is socialize.

Now…can we go after jock culture, too?