With the split of Tomball Memorial our student population was cut in half and with that, our funding for prom was cut as well. Prom staff didn’t know if the students would be able to pull together and raise the money necessary for the seniors’ biggest night.

Also with Michelle Obama “Child Nutrient laws” schools are no longer able to serve food that is edible. Lunch and breakfast are two of the meals served at school and a lot of students either brought food from home or didn’t eat at all. School food in general isn’t very good so with this new nutrient expectation students just skip lunch.

For breakfast the senior parent organization sold Chick-fil-a in the morning on Wednesday to raise funds for project prom. But since the chicken biscuit isn’t up to code Chick-fil-a made a whole new product for Tomball High School.

For the first couple of weeks the senior parent organization tried selling the new grain biscuit to the school, but sales were low and students didn’t like the new taste. People became less and less likely to go to the once filled line to buy the chicken biscuit.

“I prefer the old chicken biscuit opposed to the new one because not only do the new ones taste worse it’s the fact that I can’t enjoy the foods I want at school.” Said Joe Torres.

Our Project prom funding was directly funded to the chicken biscuit like trash bag sales goes to prom itself. Last year’s seniors were racing to sell trash bags because they had to start from scratch.
To try and help reassure that the finances wouldn’t see a crisis, seniors are starting their savings a little early, before they are even seniors. Mr. Vierkant instructed juniors to start raising money by selling Yankee candles the year before their Prom so that savings can be a little more secure.

Even with this addition to fundraising, Prom’s expenses are still staggering at times and so fears still existed in the minds of the members of the Senior Parent Organization. But with every little fundraiser the school holds helps even a little to hold fears a bay.

The seniors rose to the challenge and met the problem head on, trash bag sales were fantastic and the money already saved from the Yankee Candles fundraiser gave an enormous boost to the budget for 2015’s Prom.

“The seniors did an outstanding job with the trash bag sales, they did better than last year and we should be perfect.” Said the assistant principle Vierkant regarding prom’s budget.

“We were a little worried about it last year when the class got cut in half but you guys really stepped it up. So we’re good, the fundraisers starting junior year are a big help and I’ve been talking to the other principles and the class sponsors about starting the freshman year and making sure that every year there’s a fundraiser. If we start earlier and even just raise a little bit every year, it helps to relieve some of the pressure to sell the trash bags, even though you guys have always stepped up and gotten what we need.”

With all the changes to the school like population change, budget planning, and the new nutrient code the schools staff keeps on kicking back to keep the future bright for the class of 2015.