Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter

"It is not primarily the sex/booze/drugs that surround this event, as problematic as they might be; it is rather the flaunting of affluence, assuming exaggerated expenses, a pursuit of vanity for vanity's sake - in a word, financial decadence," says Brother Kenneth M. Hoagland, who claims in the letter to be fed up with what he called the "bacchanalian aspects."

"Each year it gets worse, becomes more exaggerated, more expensive, more emotionally traumatic. We are withdrawing from the battle and allowing the parents full responsibility. Kellenberg is willing to sponsor a prom, but not an orgy."

The school which is owned by the Society of Mary (Marianists), has had mixed reactions by parents and students alike.

"I don't think it's fair, obviously, that they canceled prom," Senior Alyssa Johnson of Westbury tells AP. "There are problems with the prom, but I don't think their reasons or the actions they took solved anything."

Edward Lawson, a father of a Kellenberg senior is in discussions to plan a prom with other parents and decide the next move.

"This is my fourth child to go through Kellenberg and I don't think they have a right to judge what goes on after the prom," says Lawson. "They put everybody in the category of drinkers and drug addicts. I don't believe that's the right thing to do."

But the principal does have his backers, such as Margaret Cameron of Plainview.

"The school has excellent values, we send our children here because we support the values and the administration of the school and I totally back everything they do."

The senior class still has a four-day trip to Disney World scheduled for April.