A couple of things

[apocalypsos]

A principal at an all-girls school on Staten Island has made a rule that if girls don't have a male date for the prom, they can't go. Man, that rule bugs me. So if you're unpopular, a lesbian, or would rather avoid possible prom-night sexual politics and just hang with your friends, you're SOL, I guess.

I didn't go to my prom. Lots of people went stag, and I probably could have gone stag myself or asked a guy, but I was too shy to ask anyone else back then and every single one of my friends went with a date. I already felt uncomfortable enough on a daily basis without being the fifth wheel at the prom. I think I just stayed home and read a book or something.

Also, new Christian and Olli!

It's mostly Judith and her love life, but she finally, finally does what I've been wanting her to do for weeks. (Um, I really don't like Fabian. Have I mentioned that?) However, Olli and Christian do get some early-morning flirting in, and Olli's line about running away after a kiss made me die laughing.

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[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I took a male friend to our Leaver's Do but to be honest everyone hated the affair and we all left early (we being the drama students) and went to a metal club with some of the others. About thirty blokes and girls formed a really violent moshpit in tuxedos and ballgowns. I swear, it was just like an MCR video.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The thing I remember most about prom was that the next day I found out that my best friend (who was a bit of a drama queen) had been pissed that her boyfriend ended up prom king and someone else ended up prom queen. (She was, like, third alternate or something.)

Which, for crying out loud, they picked the prom court at random.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I am so OVERWHELMINGLY GLAD we do not have those traditions here, it sounds like a recipe for bad feeling.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

My sixth form had a leavers' do but only about twelve people out of the year of 280 or so went. And it was the wholesome people who went, so it was probably the most boring night ever. (I don't know for sure because the leavers' do was held after exams, so I managed to avoid ever seeing any of them again. Hurrah!)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the majority of our Sixth Form didn't go either. Stinginess and general lack of school spirit and all.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

And a general dislike of EVERYBODY IN MY YEAR. All my friends were in the year below by that stage (because all my friends in the year above had already left) and there was no way I was going to voluntarily spend time with the turds in my year.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

And it was the wholesome people who went

Bwahahaha, that reminds me of my Senior Skip Day. That year, we had a new principal who was trying to show he could keep everybody in line and told us that if any of us skipped we'd get suspended.

We changed the date. Only three people from my class showed up that day -- two of the special ed students, and my best friend. Who asked her dad if she could skip. (Granted, I asked my mother, too, but sarcastically after I found out what my best friend did. "Hey, Mom, can I skip on Senior Skip Day? Oh, for the record, I am, so." My mom ranted about how she wasn't going to lie to the school about where I was if they called, then told me later on that day that when they called she told them I was at home in bed throwing up. My mom is occasionally awesome. :))

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

The last four years of my time at school/college were a permanent skip day. *g* Some of my teachers didn't actually know who I was because I never went to lessons.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I was such a goody-two-shoes. Senior Skip Day was the only day I ever skipped school.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

On one memorable occasion, I did actually go to school - but was so drunk/hungover that I just passed out on the common room floor and my friends hid me by piling coats on top of me.

Looking back, I'm rather amazed I'm still alive, actually.

[conuly]

That year, we had a new principal who was trying to show he could keep everybody in line and told us that if any of us skipped we'd get suspended.

So... if you skipped, she'd reward you with another day off? Like, seriously?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Even the teachers rolled their eyes at that one. (What I specifically remember was that after he assembled the seniors and told us that, we went to our first class and our math teacher -- who'd been there forever and knew all of us really well because it was such a small school -- said, "Ignore that idiot. Go ahead and skip. Trust me, nobody else cares.")

He didn't stay around long, though, thank God. I think he left a few years after that, although I doubt it was because he finally realized what a crap principal he was.

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

Wow. I went to the junior prom with my (female) best friend. I went to the prom with four of my friends, all of whom female with no dates. We had a blast, mostly because of that. That if we went to that school we wouldn't be allowed to go really bugs.

>"That makes sense only because it probably controls the chaos," Valente said. "You know you're there with somebody, you're less likely to go crazy."<

This does not compute. Groups of people don't get drunk at prom because they're with other people?

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

I was going to go stag but my mom wouldn't let me. So I told one of my guy friends who was an underclassmen that he was going to be my date and he didn't have a choice. It sucked though, because he didn't have a job and could barely afford the tux and I decided that since him going was the only way that I could go, I paid for the tickets and our share of the group limo.

In the end, it was pretty much as if I HAD gone stag because we found out he had no rhythm and could not dance. And since many of my friends' dates decided at the last minute that actually dancing wasn't MANLY, it was a giant group of girls dancing by themselves anyway. We all joked that we should have left the boys at home.

My brother just missed out on his prom because at the LAST FREAKING MINUTE, his date's parents decided she was too young to go, cuz she's only a sophmore. Which makes no sense ... she's too young to eat bad food, dance to cheesy music, and then play poker at the post-prom bash? Maybe it was the karaoke that did it in for them. What's nice is that her parents didn't even let her call him and he found out a week before prom where it was too late to get anyone else to go with him.

I didn't go to my senior prom, though. I didn't see the point when most of my friends had graduated and I had a falling out with my best friend at the time. Plus, I had an art exhibit the next morning at 9 a.m.

[girl-wonder.livejournal.com]

I'm totally rooting for Constantin. I think it's because he bought her a star. And also, he's adorably cute.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I don't even get why she's having problems deciding which one to pick. Constantin is nice and hot, and Fabian is a dick and looks like a Keebler elf.

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

Gods! At my prom (up in the wilds of Canada we called it a 'grad dance') *everyone* went stag. You can dance with more people that way.

[faith21.livejournal.com]

i saw that story on the news the other day. catholic schools do retarded shit like this all the time.

i didn't go to my prom for exactly the same reasons. and also, i'd wanted to go down the shore afterward and my friend had a church function the next day.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

I skipped my prom to go to the theatre.

[stormyskies.livejournal.com]

Delurking to say that I went to an all-girls high school in Philadelphia and they did the same thing. They made up some bullshit about catering. I'm not paying $100+ to dress up and baby-sit one of my cousin's friends because I don't have any guy friends. I complained, quite loudly, but they stuck to their catering lie.

PS I read your journal quite a bit and find you quite funny. Do you mind if I friend you?

[minim_calibre]

That is so lame. Bah! Prom should not be restricted to heterosexuals or people with enough social skills to wrangle a date!

I failed to get a date (I asked! both genders! but I am neither heterosexual, nor at the time possessed of enough social skills to wrangle a date) and didn't feel like going stag, so I hung out with my junior year history teacher and her husband (she was kind of our den mother), admired the outfits of those who stopped by to show them off, and watched L.A. Law and the last live episode of Johnny Carson.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Are dudes allowed to go stag?

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I feel like emailing this principal about this one opposite gender dance I had with a girl. So much grinding that she initiated. I still have no idea who she is.

OMG CASUAL FROTTAGE. His head would explode. BOOM.

[modillian.livejournal.com]

Bah, what a load of crap. I went with a pile of friends (guys and girls), and it was more fun that way definitely. I will grant them that it did make for crazier antics, but the school had nothing to do with the after-parties, so. *G*

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

That prom thing: I think it's horrible. A small thing, but somehow a prime example how school is about making the pupils conform to expectation, rather than proving room to grow and help to develop. First off, it's incredibly heterosexist, and second, it's limiting. Proms etc. parties should be about having a good time, and now that option is removed (for those who might have preferred the company of friends). And what about things like date rape etc?