<p>They have a spring fling dance that everyone is invited to, but “prom” is much more exclusive and at a very fancy location. They say that prom is a celebration that “those who work hard in school” should take advantage of. </p>
<p>In the student handook, it says: “Prom is an exciting and highly anticipated event that takes place every year on the final Saturday of April. The event gives successful students the opportunity to spend an evening in downtown St. Paul dancing, enjoying music, and celebrating the completion of another great school year. To be eligible to attend prom, students must be in good standing with the administration, hold junior or senior status, as well as carry an unweighted, academic grade point average of 3.500 or higher. No exceptions will be made. Tickets must be purchased by the February 1st deadline.”</p>
<p>Do you find this fair? Isn’t prom supposed to be for everyone?</p>
<p>WishWash…this sounds entirely unfair in my opinion…is this a long standing rule? Do the same requirements apply for kids to participate in sports, drama, speech clubs etc. If not…you should get some parents to help back you up and make a complaint.</p>
<p>This went into effect this year because there was an incident at last year’s prom involving a knife and a lot of blood. The facility we have prom at said that the school had to shape up their students if they wanted to continue using it. I guess this is their way…</p>
<p>I don’t see why they didn’t just switch facilities.</p>
<p>Leave it to a few losers to screw it up for everyone. Just because someone doesn’t have a 3.5 gpa doesn’t mean they are going to be the trouble makers at the prom. Bummers for your classmates.</p>
<p>Who says that kids who have a 3.5 or higher aren’t going to spark trouble? And what about those kids who actually challenge themselves in school by taking the hardest classes while not having the “best” GPA. This is the most ridiculous rule I have EVER heard. And like someone else said before, does this apply to other after school activites? If not it makes it even worse. </p>
<p>Not only is this unfair but it is a generalization. Smarter kids are good kids, dumber ones aren’t. Ugh. It makes me sick.</p>
<p>Everyone dreams of going to their senior prom, and barring a serious disciplinary infraction or something, they should be able to. No matter what.</p>
<p>My school put the prom on the same day as science fair regional and the SATs in may. (our enlightened faculty)
I didn’t think any school’s faculty could be dumber. You proved me wrong.</p>
<p>As a fellow Minnesotan, tell Channel 4 to do a little story on it. You’d be surprised about how fired up people will get and how many letters/phone calls your administration will receive.</p>
<p>Actually, one of my friends fathers called the school and demanded that his daughter be given access to prom, despite her 3.0 GPA.<br>
He spoke with the dean of administration (If you don’t believe me, pm me and ill give you proof), and the dean said that allowing students with GPA’s under 3.5 to attend prom is a huge safety risk, because students with sub 3.5s, such as my friend, may “strike at any given time” at prom.</p>
<p>I know that kids have been making petitions, but all that does is get them assigned community service, so it’s going no where.</p>
<p>“This is a school, not a democracy,” as they say.</p>
<p>Honestly, I couldn’t care less. I’ll just take my girlfriend out that night, unless she would rather go. I just feel horrible for my classmates who got screwed over from this.</p>