School Proms

[summerdays]

I was shocked to hear recently that it's spread to nursery children as they head for primary school. See http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/15/gradu...ee-year-olds-are-an-actual-thing-now-5296856/

More fool those parents who fall for this pointless tat.

GC

Yes my friend's child had a graduation ceremony, they were going from the nursery to the infants on the same site!

 

[ufkacbln]

What annoys me is the 'pressure'

Imagine being the parent who doesn't want to be fleeced by a "Graduation" for the three year old

 

[screenman]

Kids having fun, people spending money. Both sure things to get the forum fizzing.

Not even sure America had been invented when I left school.

 

[Milkfloat]

My sons graduation from nursery involved them making a mortar board out of black paper and learning words to a goodbye song. Perfect for my budget.

 

[hopless500]

When I was a kid, we were too poor to have proms.

When I was a kid proms didn't exist in this country

 

[biggs682]

When I was a kid proms didn't exist in this country

same here , i have volunteered to take her on the tandem , but you can imagine the answer .

 

[hopless500]

If we can call a concert a "prom" for historical reasons, then they can call a dance a "prom" for historical reasons.

BTW, did you guys not have school formal dances, until you got this American import? That's just sad

Nope.
Glad about that too

 

[jefmcg]

I have loaned my Christiania to a neighbour who cycled hid Daughter and friend wearing a chauffeur's uniform

Yup, if I was his daughter, I'd hide too.

 

[hopless500]

So was I, and they hadn't yet imported them from the USA anyway.

Even if my family had not been too poor to splash out on that kind of thing, and proms had been a feature of school life in those days, I simply wouldn't have gone!

Ditto!!

 

[hopless500]

What annoys me is the 'pressure'

Imagine being the parent who doesn't want to be fleeced by a "Graduation" for the three year old

My mum wouldn't have been fleeced cos she had nothing. She never knew ( as far as I know) that there were school trips abroad. I would never have told her.... still haven't

 

[ufkacbln]

Yup, if I was his daughter, I'd hide too.

Thanks... Corrected

 

[User32269]

Disco in Colomendy camp, north Wales was closer we got to a prom in 1979 Liverpool comprehensive. Snogging a girl with a drippy nose who was eating juicy fruit chewy. Class.

 

[biggs682]

Disco in Colomendy camp, north Wales was closer we got to a prom in 1979 Liverpool comprehensive. Snogging a girl with a drippy nose who was eating juicy fruit chewy. Class.

what an image , i wonder what she is doing know ?

 

[User32269]

what an image , i wonder what she is doing know ?

Could still be a headmistress?

 

[growingvegetables]

Oh lordy - you lot are just kids.

Didn't have dances/proms/balls whatever when I left school. Just five years later, in my first teaching job - yup, the school tried a "Leavers' Ball". Staff on duty (yup, on duty!) were issued a 6 inch ruler, and instructed that NO dancing couples were EVER to be so close that said 6 inch ruler could not be passed between them.















But the Head forgot to stipulate which way we had to be able to slip said 6 inch ruler between couples.