Matric Ball Should Be Banned In School

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Matric ball, what is a Matric ball? Many people around the world may know it as a “PROM”, a farewell dance at the end of the seniors’ final semester on high school. I fully agree with the statement that these Matric balls “PROMS” should indeed be banned from bad performing schools until learners can prove to their lecturers otherwise, by improving in their behaviour and academic work. My reason for agreeing with the statement is, if matriculates ‘SENIORS” keep performing badly and still receive a Matric ball at the end of their final semester then why should they care about improving in their behaviour towards their peers, lecturers, caretakers the school property, and their academic work if they are still treated to a luxurious ball. If there never was a “PROM” then we would have a higher percentage of matriculates completing their final school year because there would be no focus on a “PROM”, with the high percentage increase in pass rates of the matriculates there might be a decline in our crime and poverty rate. The unsuccessful rate of bad performing schools causes an impact on everybody’s lives .why do I say this? Well most of the matriculates who unfortunately does not finish there final year of school doesn’t bother returning because they have had the pleasure of attending the “PROM” and see…show more content…
No! Those thousands of rands you spent can be put to better use, such as intuition fee to apply at a university or varsity and to pay for the text books they are going to need for those

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