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New Jersey high school bans limos and luxury cars from prom
NY Post ^ | 01 Mar 2019 | uncredited/AP

Posted on 03/02/2019 2:58:18 AM PST by blueplum

WANAQUE, N.J. — Some students at a New Jersey high school are upset that they won’t be able to make a grand entrance by taking limousines and luxury cars to their prom.

Lakeland Regional High School administrators sent a letter to parents this week stating that prom attendees must take school-provided and chaperoned coach buses to and from the venue in June.

Schools Superintendent Hugh Beattie says it’s a matter of safety and equity...

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To: blueplum

More money for a prom dress.


61 posted on 03/02/2019 6:52:17 AM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: blueplum

Equality...another reason to Homeschool...


62 posted on 03/02/2019 7:01:30 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: blueplum

Ok, fine. The students should find another venue, allow limos and whatever else they want far, far away from the school. Parents should fire the moron superintendent.


63 posted on 03/02/2019 7:04:14 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Horse hockey. The crash was the company’s and driver’s fault.

How about school buses not having seat belts and incompetent drivers?

Geez, let the kids arrive in whatever their parents and legal guardians allow. The school isn’t the parent or the legal guardian. Better yet, homeschool and throw their own prom.


64 posted on 03/02/2019 7:08:57 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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To: Tax-chick

I remember that. What a tragedy. New Jersey teens are extremelyn spoiled, as are most kids today . 65 years ago, we took the subway to the prom. One girl was able to persuade her Dad to take her and her friends in his Florist’s Van ....like 12 kids, packed in like sardines! Ah... the good old days!


65 posted on 03/02/2019 7:11:34 AM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop
Ignorant child. Don't confuse NEW YORK CITY with UPSTATE NEW YORK. We are not a dump. Here UPSTATE they are discussing the limo accident when referring to the prom.

I'm familiar with upstate New York. In December 2018 I actually drove through the intersection where that crash took place.

Upstate New York is beautiful, but it's a fading remnant of what it used to be. The limo company is owned by a Pakistani who fled to his home country after the incident ... and that company ain't headquartered in New York City.

66 posted on 03/02/2019 7:11:43 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: smvoice

That sounds very likely.


67 posted on 03/02/2019 8:06:36 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: blueplum

Oh, and everyone will have to ride in the back of the bus.


68 posted on 03/02/2019 8:08:42 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: blueplum

Equity? At a prom? Are all the girls going to come in identical dresses? And all the boys in navy blue suits?


69 posted on 03/02/2019 8:13:27 AM PST by sphinx
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To: raybbr
"Limos aren’t safe? Okay. Show us the hundreds of stories backing up your claim."

Exactly.

Very common lack of logic. One very atypical accident and suddenly all limos are unsafe. I've not done any research whatsoever and don't have to. There are thousands of limos on the roads everyday and only this one tragic accident is known to me. I'm sure there are others just like there are tragic bus accidents but that does not make buses unsafe.

So many people look for an exception to a rule and when they find one they think that invalidates the rule. WRONG!. The "exception" by definition PROVES the rule is valid and true otherwise it would not be an exception it would be common.

70 posted on 03/02/2019 8:24:40 AM PST by precisionshootist
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

If it’s just “It’s about the limos.”, then why did they also ban ‘luxury cars’, you know, like Lincoln Towncars, Mercedes, Rolls, etc?

In other words, it’s not ‘about the limos.’


71 posted on 03/02/2019 8:30:41 AM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop
"It’s not about being a nanny state."

You are kidding right? You must be. "Safety" is the universal excuse for nanny state libs. Limos are not unsafe. You are literally just making stuff up. Prom night in Texas every limo in the state is on the road (thousands) and yes we have country roads here in Texas also. There has never been a rash of prom night limo crashes and this event has been going of for decades. Again you are making up stuff.

72 posted on 03/02/2019 8:32:04 AM PST by precisionshootist
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To: kearnyirish2

This is no big deal-—and common.

I had grandchildren graduate from 3 different suburban high schools in the Boston area and they ALL had to take the busses into downtown Boston where they had the prom in nice hotels.

They were then bussed back to their schools.

Makes perfect sense—and I guess a lot of mischief took place in the limos when they were allowed.

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73 posted on 03/02/2019 8:40:50 AM PST by Mears
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To: sphinx
"Equity? At a prom? Are all the girls going to come in identical dresses? And all the boys in navy blue suits?"

The venue is 45 minutes away. I think the equity here applies to them all arriving at the same time. You know how sometimes cars break down on the way, a flat tire or someone gets lost and arrives towards the end of the prom. This way they can start the festivities at the same time. Heck, I'd think that the bus ride would be considered as starting the party early!

I wonder who picked a venue so far away. Aren't proms usually at school?

74 posted on 03/02/2019 9:02:46 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: chaosagent

Let me clarify what I meant by you are making stuff up. I’m not talking about braking and weaknesses. All kinds of specialized vehicles have these types of issues. Concrete trucks, liquid tankers etc. What I mean is that you are taking one accident and making up in your mind that limos are unsafe. That can’t be true or it would have been demonstrated a long time ago.


75 posted on 03/02/2019 9:06:53 AM PST by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

I think you’re replying to the wrong person.


76 posted on 03/02/2019 9:27:16 AM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: blueplum

Social Equity = Free cheese In Mouse Trap


77 posted on 03/02/2019 9:49:27 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: blueplum

Why don’t they make all the kids were Mao jackets and pants, too, since there is so much money spent on tuxes and gowns? And no flowers. Make a donation to the DNC’s 2020 slate instead, kids.


78 posted on 03/02/2019 10:30:52 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("The twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our hemisphere." --Trump to Venezuelans, 2/18/19)
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To: smvoice
They will be issued prom uniforms and everyone will have an equally good time.

And they will be issued same-sex prom dates.

79 posted on 03/02/2019 10:32:25 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("The twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our hemisphere." --Trump to Venezuelans, 2/18/19)
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To: Mears

I really don’t know what to make of it, or feel strongly either way.


80 posted on 03/02/2019 2:13:09 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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