Ban on helicopter arrival at primary school prom

jimbms

hairy_g wrote: »

Couldn't agree more. This kind of thing shoud be banned now before it gets out of hand, along with " Trick or Treat".
If you want to live like an American, Emigrate!

as well as eating burgers and putting on another 100lbs and having a partial lobotomy.

happyandy63

Let kids be kids. We should stop bombarding them with ad's and not allow parents to treat them like fashion assesories. The missery caused to inocent children. Parents who want to dress kids up like prostitutes and put them in limos should really look at themselfs. Trying to out do each other by spending as much as possible is a sign of no class.

Owain_Moneysaver

jamespir wrote: »

why cant they just have a disco like we all did

We wanted a disco (well I didn't, I didn't care) but got a barn dance instead, in the school hall.

We did have real haybales to sit on though!

pinkduvetdiva

mr.savage wrote: »

Why?.. did she go straight to University when she left, or normal senior school like most other kids?.

She's in regular senior school right now. I will be the next to wear the cap and gown when I graduate from uni in 2013-and I'll have earned it! :j

pinkduvetdiva

happyandy63 wrote: »

Let kids be kids. We should stop bombarding them with ad's and not allow parents to treat them like fashion assesories. The missery caused to inocent children. Parents who want to dress kids up like prostitutes and put them in limos should really look at themselfs. Trying to out do each other by spending as much as possible is a sign of no class.

Talking of letting kids be kids....
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/3015804/Sarah-Burge-defiant-over-criticism-for-teaching-daughter-to-pole-dance.html

rev_henry

I'm sorry, but a PRIMARY SCHOOL PROM? A HELICOPTER? What will the parents do when their wonderful darlings manage to scrape 5 C's at GCSE?!

This kind of thing has only become fashionable very recently. I've just left 6th form (like, 2 weeks ago) and we had a ball (NOT a prom, we are not American), and that's the only time I've been part of such an event; we never did anything official for GCSEs even, and I thought that was correct tbh.

However I do remember at my previous (boarding) school a father picking up his son for the weekend in a helicopter on the playing fields. Turned out he ran a helicopter excursion company, so it wasn't as if he'd spent a fortune hiring it or anything.

datostar

impy78 wrote: »

A helicopter?

A prom?

At a primary school?

What the hell is happening to this country?

Can we let the kids have 10 minutes before we start projecting these footballer's wife/pointless celeb "ambitions" onto them?

They're 11 for God's sake! They should be eating jelly and dancing to Superman by Black Lace in a school hall!

What are they getting a prom FOR? I thought they were a reward for AMERICAN kids to celebrate their exam success, prior to university?

The purpose of going to school is educational attainment, not the promise of an age-inappropriate dress and some hooch round the back of the bins.

It was a Scottish Ceilidh as an end of term party. The school's near Glasgow. More kilts and sporrans than prom dresses and evening wear I'd have thought.

PopeSock

maninthestreet wrote: »

'Proms' - yet another example of Amercian cultural imperialism.

Yet we never seem to get the Prom Massacres that America's so famous for.

wik

My school didnt have a leaving party . just finished my last exam, and I never set foot back there again...
My DS is leaving school next week, and they are having a leavers ball, They are making a big thing of it, and in a way I think its good, we are in a fairly rural area, and many of the kids will be going off to different colleges and probably wont get to interact as much. We only moved to England a few years ago, and he is proud of his Scottish roots, he is wearing a Kilt ( which reminds me I need to order him some saltire boxers ) I shall be a proud mummy as I will be able to get a pic of him looking smart!! (for once) before he moves back to Scotland.

lucylucky

wik wrote: »

My school didnt have a leaving party . just finished my last exam, and I never set foot back there again...
My DS is leaving school next week, and they are having a leavers ball, They are making a big thing of it, and in a way I think its good, we are in a fairly rural area, and many of the kids will be going off to different colleges and probably wont get to interact as much. We only moved to England a few years ago, and he is proud of his Scottish roots, he is wearing a Kilt ( which reminds me I need to order him some saltire boxers ) I shall be a proud mummy as I will be able to get a pic of him looking smart!! (for once) before he moves back to Scotland.

A little money saving tip for you - he has no need of boxers;)