Before the June ceremony takes place, 100 high schools staging spring musicals across New Jersey will have been evaluated in 16 categories.
"It's gotten bad," Arvada High School junior Griffin Guttormsson told the New York Times on September 23, when hundreds of students from the district's 17 high schools staged protests.
Volpe would be the first to put it on a high-school stage.
The two begin a campaign to have the school stage this bleak family tragedy.
Granger was born in San Jose, California, and first appeared on a school stage aged five.
In late July, eager to claim credit, the president bounded onto a high school stage in Raleigh, N.C.
"The most important thing is that we get these kids involved at the primary school stage, not later.
Nor can parents take much comfort from thinking that once they are past the elementary school stage things will improve.
Our Lady's Convent School, Leicestershire: reorganise a storage space behind the school stage with mirrors, shelving and wardrobes.
Still, there seems, perhaps paradoxically, to be no shortage of students, as all those highly talented and professional-looking teenagers on the school stage indicated.
