Just another old American tradition.

Whilst at home I now have email and thus can link into my school and follow what is going on via the plethora of daily emails. It seems that the Year 11 prom passed without incident.

Proms.

Don't get me started. A horrible American tradition that has seeped it's way over here. When I come to power it's the first thing that will go. For a start, why have them BEFORE the exams? It's like giving kids their pocket money BEFORE they tidy their room. In an ideal world (or China) you could probably guarantee success.

Thanks for working hard and achieving your grades....oh....you didn't achieve your grades...ah well that's a shame, can we have your dinner back please?

Why reward a student who has undergone five years in the secondary education system and has spent all of that time trying to break the rules for wearing their uniform correctly (or trying hard not to wear it at all in the case of some PE kit or a sensible school shoe,) with the right to dress up in a suit or evening dress to a standard that shows that they were entirely capable of doing so for five years but just couldn't be bothered?

We spend years getting them to remove make up, nail polish and jewellery and then insist on an evening where they can have had their spray tans, their afternoon at the nail salon and the hairdresser and then put on their £150 frocks and all at the age of 15.

We then gripe at the media who try to make kids appear older than they look yet as a school here we are helping promote the same.
"But it's a rite of passage!" you say.  It might be a rite but it's so wrong.
Did you have a prom at your school? No!
So now that we have started an American high school tradition we need to continue as we have set a precedent.
America also has high school shooting massacres, are there any plans soon to adopt these here?