What was once an opportunity to hang out with your brother or sister schools, is now a "keeping up with the Jones's" type of ordeal. The limos have now turned into single, double, and triple decker limo buses. The dresses have now become in the 500s-1000s and girls have hired personal teams of make-up artisits, hair-stylists, and photographers. Dinner has turned into its own dance in a sort, it is not just one restaurant it is appetizers at one place and dinner at this place, and dessert after. The competition of who can have the most luxurious limo, highest priced dress, and hottest date has turned a once good moraled event into a life chaging ordeal. In New York some high schools have banned proms all together. At my school getting ready for prom is like surivival of the fittest. And with all of this energy put into one night, that most kids don't remember because they think they are sooooo cool for drinking, it makes you wonder.
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I go to cyber school...so we don't have a prom anyway. I think it's stupid to spend a thousand dollars on a night that most people go out and have sex with their clothes on on the dance floor, get drunk and then loose their virginity...so they're not virgins out of highschool.
I think that's just the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
Proudly staying a virgin til I'm married right here....anyway, I agree with you, prom=stupid now.
God Bless,
Nora
I only spent $200 total at prom and still feel like I wasted alot money let alone $500-1000 on a dress.
I live in South East Kansas, in a town with a pop. of 9,400. Prom is a big event, but we kept it the same. We come together, talk and hang out with friends, and people we never see anymore. Basically you dance for about an hour to 1.5 hours, but you talk the rest of the night. I will admit girls are insane. They will spend 100s if not 1000s on prom. But guys can be just as bad.
We have what is called "walk-in" I don't know how many schools have this, or even think about this, bu we have it. Basically, we do it because there is nothing better to do with our time in our town. We get out of our cars, we get announced, and walk in. On the way in, about 100 pictures are taken of you. It sucks. But if a person has a limmo or somethin, they normally bring 3-4 couples in each limmo. Actully once, we had a RV, with 10 couples in it. This is done to prevent some of the cost.
There are no cliques at prom.So our school keeps it cool, and fun.
For the tiny amount of credit that I ever give to my town, or state for that matter, I have to give props to my class, the Senior Class of '07, for keeping things in perspective. Our class is the kind of class that isn't a smart class because of math, but because of literature. I believe that intelligence in literature leads to intelligence in all. It opens your mind- makes intelligent debate possible- inspires truly deep thought.
Anyway, that's beside the point. I hear about all these very elaborate proms and then look at our own. At our high school, the juniors create the prom. They take care of every last detail and all the seniors have to do is show up. So the best part of the prom last year for my class was making it happen. It was the most stressful and amazing experience for me as junior class VP all year. Also, our proms are closed, which I think is a bit rediculous. Only juniors and seniors from our school are allowed to attend. A small group of friends spent time with me on the day. We split up in two cars and ate at a nice restaurant in dressy casual attire, came back and took pictures in a pretty yard after changing into our prom wear. I spent $350 on my dress and did my own hair and makeup. That is pretty much a typical student's prom day in my town.
Some seniors do limos or party buses. Most girls have their regular stylist do their hair. But that's about it. I didn't realize that people went so over the top about it.
Doesn't it make the prom a little less exciting if you try so hard to make everything perfect? It's so much more fun to leave room for spontanaety and creativity!
I know, I ramble too much...
-Lauren-
I live in a small town in Oklahoma, and prom is a big deal and a big event that we all plan our month around. Our juniors decorate our gym for prom and give it to us as our senior gift. I am only spending $350 on my dress this year(its my senior year) and last year spent a wopping $75. Our prom is one of the biggest things around here and everyone who goes has a great time. Some people go way out of the way to have the biggest limo or stretch hummer, but all in all its a night that we will always remeber for its or last "Highschool dance" that most of us will ever go to.