Prom For Junior School Leavers

BERNADETTE · 18-07-2009, 10:28

I see a school in Great Harwood had a prom for the kids that left this year. I think it is getting ridiculous now putting parents under financial pressure and making kids grow up before their time. Why do we have to follow the Americans with all their ideas?

blazey · 18-07-2009, 10:39

I never went to mine. I'd rather sit and watch paint dry (quite literally) than sit with a bunch of people that I mostly didn't like and pretend to care that I was leaving them.

I intentionally went to Blackburn College even though everyone who was going to study A levels from my school went to St Mary's, simply so I didn't have to see them in their stupid cliques any longer.

Funnily enough, most of the people from my class at school all went to the same universities together as well. I'd hate to be stuck with the same people from school for all that time and never throw myself into a new situation by myself.

emamum · 18-07-2009, 11:10

its just a party isnt it?

BERNADETTE · 18-07-2009, 11:15

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its just a party isnt it?

Well the girls all had the works and there were limousines hired. It was a prom Em

accyman · 18-07-2009, 12:32

yep just one step closer to been just as pathetic as the yanks

school disco tops is enough

cashman · 18-07-2009, 12:43

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Originally Posted by accyman

yep just one step closer to been just as pathetic as the yanks

school disco tops is enough

agree a load of cobblers fer dumb suckers.

flashy · 18-07-2009, 15:08

Bernie, we all had 'leavers do's' when we left school, ask your Catherine, those of us who didnt 'associate' with the 'snobs' didnt go though (through choice i may add), i think ours was at Enfield CC....18 years ago they didnt call them proms

accyman · 18-07-2009, 15:58

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Originally Posted by cashman

agree a load of cobblers fer dumb suckers.

essentialy yes and also an excuse for those who think they are better than others or above others to blow ridiculous amounts of money on limosines and expensive out fits in a beat the jones's type kind of thing

absolutely no need at all for all the bumff of having a promm when a end of year leaving do would do the job just as well and probably not put off less fortunate people from turning up whos parents cant afford limos , fancy gowns and tux's etc

schools enforce school uniforms all the way through school life allegedly so that everyone appears the same and dosnt feel pressured to wear teh latest fashions etc then they undo all that by putting great pressure on pupils and parents to buy and provide everything that goes with been part of a promm

yeah im a miserable sod lol but im a miserable sod with more sense thant to spend £100 on a limo just to take my kid to school and pay a fortune for a outfit it will only wear once

when we left school all our mates signed our shirts with marker pens and we had an end of year disco which consisted of a dj, ciderkin and other soft drinks and a few sneaky snogs in teh corner or behind teh hall room curtains

its about time we abondoned american ways not embrace more of them

accyman · 18-07-2009, 16:00

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Why do we have to follow the Americans with all their ideas?

if its not iraq its bloomin promms lol

just wait and see what happens when america decides to invade iran

Studio25 · 18-07-2009, 16:36

We have proms because there's no decent family TV content made in the UK any more. Bizarre reasoning, eh?

We import all the TV tat from the US, so after-school dance lessons become cheerleader practice and school discos become proms. Nobody decides to "import" such concepts from the US, it's just because it's all that kids see on TV, the concepts stick.

I do find it a bit unnerving though. At my child's school, they ran a slideshow including prom night pictures done by a pro photographer. The dresses and the poses were all a little bit too mature... These kids are age 10 and 11 FFS.

(It's not professional jealousy, either. There are three parents at school who are pro photographers, and only one can get the gig.)

(OK maybe a bit jealous)

accyman · 18-07-2009, 16:58

to be fair most of teh junk tv has been created by the UK with simon cowell been the most guilty of all and then tehres big brother its as though theres a steady stream of junk/trash tv emitting from teh UK been taken on by america and other countries

sure america brought us jerry springer but lets face it even with jeremy kyles inbred lot they are still a long way off the standard of trash jerry springer brought to our screens lol

West Ender · 18-07-2009, 17:21

When they're 16/18 a prom's not too bad. For 11 year olds it's ridiculous. Let them be children, for goodness sake, instead of encouraging them to behave like little adults.

BERNADETTE · 18-07-2009, 17:28

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Originally Posted by flashy

Bernie, we all had 'leavers do's' when we left school, ask your Catherine, those of us who didnt 'associate' with the 'snobs' didnt go though (through choice i may add), i think ours was at Enfield CC....18 years ago they didnt call them proms

Yes I know but you were leaving school at fifteen/sixteen these kids are moving school. Eleven is far to young for all this palaverIMHO.

Ossywarrior · 18-07-2009, 17:58

its just a prom, what is the big deal ? if people want to spend stupid amounts of money then let them, its there money.

BERNADETTE · 18-07-2009, 18:06

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Originally Posted by Ossywarrior

its just a prom, what is the big deal ? if people want to spend stupid amounts of money then let them, its there money.

And what if they can't afford to spend stupid amounts of money but have a child who is upset because they can't go? Just added pressure for parents in these hard times IMHO