<p>I grew up in a tiny little town where prom was the 2nd most important night of a girls life (supposedly). I am pleased that it is still considered fun to attend here, but it is more about a good party. Most of the kids stay for the entire prom. Unlike other schools that have organized after-party activities, half the kids go off the drink and the other half end up doing stuff like shopping at Wal-mart in their prom gowns and eating at Denny’s. Somehow they all end up at an amusement park the next day. It seems to be a fun night here where the seniors are having their last big night as a class and the juniors are full of relationship drama and hormones. Luckily, DS is not dating this girl seriously, or I would be more worried about the hormones. Most of the kids don’t even rent limos or hotel rooms, so the debauchery is kept to a minimum.</p>
<p>Junior prom at Ds BS is just a dinner dance for the junior class. No dates. Too bad for her since she dates a senior. On the other hand, not expensive, not a lot of drinking, and pretty low key.</p>
<p>Our school just has one prom and any student can go. Breathalizers at the door. For the couple of dances my S has been to so far he just wore nice pants, shirt & tie that he already owned. I don’t know of any after prom activities organized by the school.</p>
<p>D’s school has just one prom as well. it’s typically seniors and their dates, which means other years as well. It’s a big deal, with a whole evening, including post-prom.</p>
<p>If memory serves me correctly, D1 had a pre-prom (cocktail for parents and all), and post prom party with co-ed sleepover. The good thing is I am not going to have to buy a dress, D2 could wear one of D1´s dress. They are 5 years apart, that no one would remember D1´s dress.</p>
<p>No sharing of dresses here. D12 is 5’10" and shaped like spaghetti. D15 is 5’3.5" (hoping to grow some more) and curvy.</p>
<p>Mine are already sharing dresses. I have one I’m holding in reserve (refusing to shorten) in case we need it for the taller one first. (Only 3 inches difference here, but younger is taller than older, so that could potentially change.)</p>
<p>I have to laugh about the class of 2020 parent. My youngest starts Kindergarten next year…Yep, class of 2025 if I figured it right! LOL, we are just crazy I guess.</p>
<p>My two girls are about same height (5´8.5", 5´9"), clothes and shoe sizes. The younger one is less curvier because of her age. D2 would raid D1´s closet while D1 is away in college. She was busted a few times when D1 saw her on FB with D1´s clothes.</p>
<p>Debbie7452, re: your 2025er. ok, I feel better now!
D’12 hasn’t mentioned prom yet. This will be a first for hdt</p>
<p>Oops, I meant ‘her’.</p>
<p>Has anyone started a thread for parents of 2025 yet? Ha!</p>
<p>DS has never been to a school sponsored dance of any sort although his friends have urged him to join them (for homecoming etc). He really isn’t into the scene but says he will go senior year. I don’t expect that he will even mention prom this spring.</p>
<p>At our HS Jr prom is a dinner and dance. It starts though at the HS, each couple or group is announced and they walk down the red carpet. I only saw it last year, the weather was bad, so it was in the gym. Usually it is outside. The couples/groups walked down the red carpet to cheering parents and into waiting buses. The buses took them to the Prom and back to the school at 11. It was very fun and every parent was there to see their kids. You couldn’t really walk the carpet if you were impaired and the kids didn’t drive anywhere. </p>
<p>Senior Prom is more traditional in that the kids provide their own transportation and many have after Prom parties (beach).</p>
<p>geogirl, Walking to and from the bus sounds great for a junior prom. I’d like to suggest that to my D’s school. No prom talk in our household, too much to do at the moment.</p>
<p>I just hope I can get my DD 2012 to attend her prom. She is not very interested in social events like that.</p>
<p>I noticed I miscalculated my youngest DS’s graduation year he Class of 2024, whoohoo…one year earlier.</p>
<p>I’m not sure DD’12 will attend her prom, and I’m fairly sure that if she does, it will be because of peer pressure, and she won’t have a date unless friends make it happen. Of course, it’s over a year from now, and I’ve been wrong before.</p>
<p>Our HS prom is for juniors and seniors and their invited dates. My S attended both freshman and sophomore year with older girls. He was even invited to another’s school prom by a guy friend. He told me the friend knew he was straight (S had a gf at the time) but it was to go just as “friends”. He didn’t go, but kind of wishes he did because he heard it was a ton of fun.</p>
<p>Ours is held at the HS cafeteria, which happens to look like a castle anyway (big stained glass windows, wooden beams, chandeliers). We also host an after-prom in the gym and adjacent areas. Students have to arrive by a certain time (they change clothes in between) and once they are admitted, if they leave they cannot be re-admitted. At the very end they have drawings for prizes, where you must be present to win. They give away computers, iPods, etc. so all the kids stay and don’t go off drinking or getting into other trouble.</p>
<p>Although I haven’t heard anything about the prom from my D, I am sure she won’t miss it. Never skipped a school dance, with or without a date.</p>
<p>Ijustdrive…your DD sounds a lot like mine. I am glad that I’m not the only one. My older DD was a social butterfly, however, she still scrambled to find a date to the prom because of a boyfriend breakup situation! She finally went with a friend’s son but it didn’t really go very well, sigh.</p>
<p>Our school also puts on an elaborate after prom party. During the Senior Parents fundraising meeting they told us they needed $90,000 to put on the after party!! They rent out an arcade/restaurant/entertainment venue all night and give away prizes to EVERYONE who attends. Prizes, like laptops, TV’s, ipods, game systems, and gift cards. I think my DD got a $30 Wal-mart card. Her friends shared a limo and made custom designed and printed “after prom” matching T-shirts. It was completely out of control in my opinion, but the other parents all thought it was great!</p>