School Proms

[surveyor]

Drama non stop. Prom is on Wednesday so the only topic of discussion in my house.

Last night I was woken at 1:30 by my daughter in tears. She had been added to a group chat for an after-prom party. This seemed to gee up a remarkable amount of bhyness between the girls. Result is she is now no longer going to the after-prom. Even after she removed herself from the chat, they added her back in just to make sure that she was further destroyed.

Not a happy dad.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

One of the things I loathe about mobile phones.

This generation of kids can bullied 24/7...and worse, whatever daft things they'll do as late teens will likely be filmed.

Hope it resolves for your daughter. It's heartbreaking as a parent to watch your kids go through stuff like that.

[Countdown]

Blackburn teenager driven to high school prom in £3m Bugatti Chiron

Hard to beat, in the world of "Prom One-upmanship"

[The Hypno-Toad]

DRFC1879 said:

As an aside: There was a very fit lass in that sixth form who had previously stood me up for a date. On the night of the leavers' do she was all over me but I was having none of it. She asked me to talk to her outside the function room so we sat on the stairs and she told me she may have left me hanging before but she wanted me to take her home that night. And that her knickers were now in her handbag. I said it was too late for that; she'd humiliated me as there were meant to be three couples going out and everyone else turned up so not only had she let me down but she made me look a fool in front of all of them. I still regret that. I should've banged her senseless. What the fk was I playing at?!

Jesus wept! And I thought I had some stupid regrets from my school days! You fool! You foolish fool!

[surveyor]

To close this one. She went to the prom. She had a good time, and a select few friends came back for an after-drink. The teachers tried to make it a no-alcohol event and completely failed!

She's not split with the boyfriend, so we have a total of 1 photo in exchange for the grand or so the 3 hour event cost.

[spaximus]

Our daughter went to a school prom and to be honest I detested the whole thing.

It became an exercise in who could spend the most and who made the best entrance. One of her friends family had a hard time with various disaster befalling them and she was not going to go as she could not afford the dress and share of the limo etc.

I paid so she could go and not be looked down on by some of the other stupid kids ( never told anyone but her parents who accepted my offer) but it made me wonder why schools have fallen for this utter waste of time and money when some cannot take part.

As others have said, mobile phones are evil in the hands of bhy bullying kids

[Smint]

spaximus said:

Our daughter went to a school prom and to be honest I detested the whole thing.

It became an exercise in who could spend the most and who made the best entrance. One of her friends family had a hard time with various disaster befalling them and she was not going to go as she could not afford the dress and share of the limo etc.

I paid so she could go and not be looked down on by some of the other stupid kids ( never told anyone but her parents who accepted my offer) but it made me wonder why schools have fallen for this utter waste of time and money when some cannot take part.

As others have said, mobile phones are evil in the hands of bhy bullying kids

Thankfully this fad hadn't reached Blighty when my kids were at school.
Credit to you for assisting so daughter's friend could attend.

Wasn't the original idea of school uniforms in part so the poorest kids would be wearing the same clobber (mostly) as the more indulged, no trainers with uniform though the stupidly overpriced named trainer farce hadn't yet arrived, standard lace up polished black shoes, same meal tickets issued so those on free school dinners weren't singled out, etc?

Thankfully going to an old fashioned all boys grammar the inevitable hassle and trouble that happens in mixed schools wasn't an issue in my day, we were too busy on the Rugby field or in the range target shooting or looking after the somewhat extensive range of Lee Enfield .303s in the school armoury.