Katy Perry Criticized For Choosing Expensive Private School
over special needs school for a $10,000 prize.
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She went to fee-paying Santa Barbara Christian School and enjoyed a privileged education in her formative years.
So it was perhaps no great surprise that pop star Katy Perry felt an affinity with $22,000-a-year Loreto Mandeville Hall Catholic school in Melbourne, plucking its students as winners of Telstra's $10,000 nationwide video competition.
But the Roar songstress's decision to opt for a privileged private school has caused upset from special needs dance program Frankston's BAM Allstars, whose founder Lisa Murphy said: 'It's a waste of money.'
She told Daily Mail Australia: 'Nothing against Loreto, and I'm not saying we should have won as we don't have much money to produce a great quality video, but there are other establishments for special children that could have done with the $10,000 more.
Karen Taylor, executive assistant to the CEO at Mater Dei in Camden told the Sydney Morning Herald: 'I'm not one to complain but I think it's a shame when there's a lot of other struggling schools who want to expand their performing arts.'
Deleting all of her albums right now tbh