Highschool Proms scheduled on a weekday night

[tropicsgoddess]

It may be a buzzkill to some that prom is scheduled for a weekday, but regardless there's still some teens that'll find a way to party after prom.

[Greenday]

as for skipping school the next day, I think the article pointed out that some schools are enforcing a "YOU MUST be in school the nex day or be suspended/disciplined" type of policy

Except no one ever follows through on that threat and everyone knows that. Me, a good kid who never got detention one in my life, skipped on senior skip day when they threatened suspension and I didn't feel guilty one bit.

[Plaidman]

Better thing to do would make prom on weekday, then have major quizzes that count for more then half their final grades in each class the next day. No make ups.

[Greenday]

Better thing to do would make prom on weekday, then have major quizzes that count for more then half their final grades in each class the next day. No make ups.

That'd never hold up. Parents would never allow it and we all know it's the parents who run the school.

[Plaidman]

XD Why I hate school. People put to much damn pride on the sports, prom, stupid make-out sessions then the school work it self. It's the jocks and princesses that run the school, never the brains.

And the /losers/ will never be able to step foot into a prom ever. But they will hear all their life how magical and special it is. How its a excellent part of one's life they will hold their whole life.

The loser though, will resent that. He couldn't go. He couldn't get a date. No-one there would have talked to them, and be beaten for thinking he was even close to the standards of being allowed to it.

Its a stupid ritual that needs to be reworked so that all can have equal fun time, and not the fucking assholes that ran the school.

[AdminAssistant]

Everybody was at my prom: the jocks, the geeks, the unpopular kids and the popular ones. Everybody seemed to have an okay time, although I was miserable at my junior prom. I was dating a guy from a different school, and he didn't want to hang out with my friends, so we just sat at our table. My senior prom he started to do the same thing, so I left him at the table and had fun.

But, again, my school was smaller than most (I graduated with 42). Obviously it will be different at larger schools that are more clique-ish.

[Plaidman]

2500 students went to my high school.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Never went to prom; they were never around back when I was at school. A lot of English schools are having proms now, as a kind of "copied from the Americans" thing. If there had been a prom, I wouldn't have bothered going anyway. I hated most of my class so I wouldn't have wanted to hang out with them, and back then I was a tomboy and hated wearing dresses in any case.

[Racket_Man]

XD Why I hate school. People put to much damn pride on the sports, prom, stupid make-out sessions then the school work it self. It's the jocks and princesses that run the school, never the brains.

And the /losers/ will never be able to step foot into a prom ever. But they will hear all their life how magical and special it is. How its a excellent part of one's life they will hold their whole life.

The loser though, will resent that. He couldn't go. He couldn't get a date. No-one there would have talked to them, and be beaten for thinking he was even close to the standards of being allowed to it.

Its a stupid ritual that needs to be reworked so that all can have equal fun time, and not the fucking assholes that ran the school.

HE! I was part of the "loser crowd" in HS was not really a Jock (low on the "jock" totem pole ie. the tennis team), was not dating a princess (BUT she was the class Valedictorian), never was "in" with the popular clique (ie football and pep/pompom squad), was a bit of a geek as in the AV and drama club (oh what a popular bunch that was), never got recognized for the stuff I did do,

BUT........

Everybody was at my prom: the jocks, the geeks, the unpopular kids and the popular ones. Everybody seemed to have an okay time, .

anyone who could afford the tickets (ours was rather expensive at the time like $25 a ticket) could go no questions asked. as long as you had transport to/from the prom and the movie afterward (your own car or a parent picking you up) you could go and have fun.

Mine was fun up to a point but the downside is more suited for the I HATE forum

[Plaidman]

Still on a sports team which get respect no matter how low, still had a girlfriend. Still was allowed to go to prom Racket man.

I'm talking about the losers so low on the the ladder that they don't even get a glance in the halls.

[Amanita]

I didn't have a date and I went to prom on my own. I also didn't wear a dress- I wore a dressy pantsuit.

One thing I am glad of- we didn't do Prom King and Queen. It's just a glorified popularity contest anyway, so why bother?

[Fryk]

My prom was anything but magical. My date, a super SUPER fairhaired redhead thought it would be a great idea to go to a tanning booth and got baked to a crisp. Sulked the whole night. We had broken up the week before prom and went together anyway, so I had little sympathy for her. So me and a bunch of kids left early, I took my date home, and we spent the next 36 hours hanging out and going to six flags. Now, THAT part was magical.

[blas87]

I didn't go to either prom.

I worked. Senior prom, I made nearly $100 in tips, and not a single table was any of my idiot over-privileged classmates!

All it took was being called a "whore" and a "slut" several times before even walking into the gym at homecoming the year before, just because of what I was wearing, that made me never want to attend anything regarding that school again.

If my parents hadn't forced me and threatened to take away my car and ground me until the day I moved out, I would have skipped graduation as well. I was on cloud nine knowing I never had to go there ever again.

[protege]

I didn't exactly fit in during high school. As such, I didn't go to any dances, including prom, or most other events. Instead, I kept to myself. I guess taking shit from everyone for so long will do that... Anyway, after graduation, I literally laid rubber out of the parking lot, and haven't been back since.

[fireheart17]

Cliques aren't as strongly defined over here in Ausland as in the US.

My school's Year 12 population was fairly small compared to the other years (compulsory age is 16), we only had about 180 people. About 100 or so of those went to the formal.

We had to pay our own way in. The whole night was alcohol free as some of us were underage. After-parties and the like DID have alcohol though. Well, the students were required to remain sober anyway....the teachers got quite drunk from what I heard.

The only two groups that seemed to be close to the "bitchy clique" kind didn't cause problems, they didn't try and lord over us or anyone else on the night. They didn't attempt to show up anyone else. Although the point of a limo was kinda defeated as nobody really saw them anyway (my dad dropped me and my friend off in his ute-thoroughly Australian)
The worst that happened to them was that many of them had trouble going to the toilets because of those gigantic ballgown skirts. The other "clique" group mostly wore simple halter-neck dresses or variations thereof.
What made the whole thing hilarious was that when it came time to crown the King and Queen (teachers votes)-the two that won it were anything BUT the cliquey groups, proving that it didn't matter. All the other awards were student voted and most of them reflected our own personality anyway-they weren't necessarily mean. Plus, even though I won the two "nerd" awards, most people didn't expect me to do their homework for them, they'd just ask us for some advice on a particular question.