School Prom vent....

POPPYOSCAR

My daughter has just had her school 'prom'.

It just goes to show what kind of society we are living in now.
Some of the girls looked about 30 instead of 15/16. Fake tans, hair, nails, teeth in abundance.

One girl even got in touch with the papers and had an article printed about how much she had spent, £775 I think it was. She talked about how much competition there would be and how everyone would be talking about who was the best and worse etc.

I find it very sad the direction our society is heading in.

Pollycat

School proms. :mad:

Another stupid money-making custom we've imported from USA, like Trick or Treating.

mynameistallulah

Pollycat wrote: »

School proms. :mad:

Another stupid money-making custom we've imported from USA, like Trick or Treating.

Whilst the name may be Americanised, the concept is certainly not new - private schools have been having school balls for decades.

pawsies

As long as she (your daughter) had a good time that's all that should matter

dizsiebubba

They aren't that new... mine was 8 years ago and they weren't new then either. We spent loads on it but we do have great memories from it.

pinkclouds

mynameistallulah wrote: »

Whilst the name may be Americanised, the concept is certainly not new - private schools have been having school balls for decades.

State schools too. Of course, they used to be called dull things such as "leavers party" or "end of year dance". And my last school (private) had a "sixth form dance".

I actually think "prom" sounds much nicer. Like something a bit grand, old-fashioned and "grown-up".

azzabazza

Funnily enough discussed this with someone yesterday who witnessed a whole group of 11 year olds going to end of primary school prom. She said it was awful to see the girls in 4 or 5 inch heels, makeup, hair done and very inappropriate dresses. One child's shoes were described as sh***ing shoes. They were getting their photograph taken for the local newspaper. :eek::eek::eek:

System

My son had his school prom on Friday and he had a wonderful time until the kids started to leave and they found a load of young thugs waiting for them outside to pelt flour and eggs at the kids were leaving. Apparently the police had been called twice but after scattering the group they left.

My son stayed indoors until he could see his Dad then he ran full pelt. His Dad had the drive of his life driving through Aston in Birmingham at midnight to collect him.

The boys and girls looked lovely i must say but they still looked like 16 year old kids in grown up clothes.

Glad its over now and i'm sure it will be a night my son will remember forever.

shellsuit

We had a leavers disco which was 50p to get in lol

My son's 'prom' was last month and was called a 'Year 11 fancy dress ball'.

Most of the kids looked amazing all done up in fancy dress, my son went as Daffyd Thomas from Little Britain, complete with a face full of make up and blonde wig.

Out of the others who didn't dress up, I didn't see a fake looking girl at all, which was very suprising!

I think the girls in his year who do normally dress like that, didn't bother going and probably went to town on the lash instead.

mildred1978

I had one 20 years ago, and another after my A levels 18 years ago. Don't recall spending more than £40 on a frock and maybe a new lippy.

POPPYOSCAR

pawsies wrote: »

As long as she (your daughter) had a good time that's all that should matter

I think she had an OK time but not a great time.(I think she did feel a bit intimidated by some of the others.)

It seems to me they were all too busy worrying about how they looked!!