How big of a deal is Prom night for high school students?

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1. It really varies from student to student. For some it’s a really big deal and for some they could not give less of a shit.

   I put a lot of money and effort into junior prom because I had a girlfriend and I wanted to impress her. And indeed, that night was the first time I ever saw boobs.

   I didn’t have a girlfriend when senior prom came so I just sat home and watched Star Trek and toasted and ate an entire loaf of bread.

2. It’s a pretty big deal to most high schoolers. Definitely expensive dresses, tuxedos, limos, and alcohol usually at some point… and if you’re lucky you and Molly might just go all the way 🤣

3. Varies. Some people treat it very seriously. Others treat it like a super fun night out, which is what I believe the majority does. And then there’s the few people who don’t care about it (if you ask me they’re missing out).

   It is what you make of it. If dancing and all the dates stuff isn’t your thing, then get a bunch of your friends together, dress in nice clothes and hang out for a while over there, rent a party bus too and go somewhere nice to eat.

   Oh and don’t forget about afterprom either. That’s also super fun.

4. Varies depending on the person. Me and my friend group just dressed up and chilled in the corner for a few hours and vibed. No alcohol or car crashes.

5. Depends on the school and individual student. My school had those events and I didn’t go because it didn’t interest me. Instead my friends and I went out on those nights, usually to a restaurant and back to someone’s house for a sleepover.

   Different people care about it at varying degrees.

6. This is subjective based on the person. Prom is also different depending on where you go to school. How nice the area is and how much money the school has and is willing to spend on a dance. Didn’t attend one until after I graduated. I went with my buddy as his date and his girl who was also graduated went with mine (now wife) as her date…. It worked out, we all got to go to prom together. Buddy had just got his Mustang too 😎

7. It’s a big deal, but nowhere near the big deal it is made out in movies. It’s something you know you are only going to get to do twice in your life, so people want to make it special. But mostly, it’s just a dance that you spend a little extra money on, and take pictures of before you go.

   If kids are the type of kids who drink they will drink after it, if kids are the type of kids who have sex with the SOs, they might do that. It’s not a night where people’s personalities suddenly change as the movies depict.

8. Big I guess? I don’t know that much about it because I had to work instead.

9. One of them is “HUGE!” and the other one is irrelevant. If you make a big deal of Junior prom, senior prom is less important. If you don’t, then senior prom is like…the big thing for the year. It’s your real 18th birthday.

10. For some it is everything, for others (myself included) it is nothing. I never went to a dance I wasn’t forced to go to…with one exception, I took my future wife to her prom.

11. It depends on the school and students, I didn’t go to the junior prom or senior ball me and my friends just hung out and played COD but there was a good story from the prom, the health teacher got drunk, drove to the school started hitting on the girls then when he was told to leave he went to his ex-wifes house and started beating her, he got arrested and we had to get a new health teacher