Saturday, February 19, 2011

Re-establish High School Prom

         When the month of February comes, all junior and senior high school student are so excited, what for? of course promenade. While other studs from further schools are dreadfully excited for the upcoming JS prom, other students are envy with it, why? they don't have this activity in school.
          Attending prom is often rite of passage for juniors and seniors in high school. Students anticipate prom all year long. The question is, is prom indeed needed or not?
          Schools' principal, the faculty members and even parents , sometimes  don't establish or re-establish prom in school. The reason is that they thought students or their children will go through sexual intercourse, or be drunk, parents sometimes give reasons that they don't have money to buy for something to ware, they believe that we'll  stay all night at someones house and not go home, students will be on accident because of driving drunk and other negative thoughts and some would think they might help in our locality because schools increasingly use prom to raise funds for local organization.
. Well not negative that much but, they are just concern which led them think of the negative outcome. With that, some school's even in our locality doesn't have any high school proms.
          Students in the other hand is stating their opinions that they will not do this and promise that. Students even make it as one of their platforms for the school. The reason why students wanted to institute this activity? Some say "We are not the same with the past students who's not well disciplined," other says they wanted to have an experience, or to have leadership opportunities when the prom is successful, to feel the school spirit because prom can attract a range of students, including those who otherwise do not feel connected to the school through the usual extracurricular activities and to have rite of passage.
           With the teachers, parents and students opinion, do we really need promenade for such reasons or forget it because it is expensive or we take disadvantages?