S/O: Is your kid having prom?

Our school is not having prom. My dds are younger so it doesn’t affect them. My little dd is in gr 7 so a ‘graduating’ year. Not a real graduation (they’re called the grads of 2026) but a leaving ceremony that they wait for nonetheless. They will be on campus and parents will be at home unless anything changes. We are allowed full time school and school activities like sports, etc but no social gatherings. It might change in the next few weeks.

Our cases are rising as people become vaccinated / weather gets better / people go out more. The variants are the biggest culprits right now. Not all are doing well with the vaccines. Our gov’t reports how many fully vaccinated people develop Covid each day and it does happen. They also report that these people do not end up in hospital.

Yes, my daughter's school is having a prom. The place they were supposed to have it will not host any proms, so they had to find somewhere else. Most of our area is being smart about covid and not hosting large gatherings. So they are having it at the school. They will do a march but no parents. I think that's a good idea. They will live stream for the parents. We have about 600 in our senior class, so they will have a ton of kids at prom. Juniors want to go too, so seniors take juniors, so they can go, then they have their real date of whoever they want. It's pretty much a junior senior prom, so we can have 900 to 1000 students! It's outdoors if it doesn't rain. In our area, we could have a lot of rain, or cold weather or snow in May.

They are also having a graduation. It was going to be 2 guests, and divide the class.  My daughter would rather have her entire class and no parents.  It's about the kids and I prefer her graduating with her class instead of making it fit what parents want.  But our restrictions are lowered this week, so they will do it at the football stadium and have more guests (I have heard different things they have a visitors side and they can space out.  We are not a mask wearing area, so it will be a super spreader event). Our district caves to parents, so the parents make the rules.

My DD's private HS is having a prom. No dancing either (I call it a Footloose prom, but for other reasons LOL), so it's dressing up and sit down dinner and some sort of entertainment? Not quite sure what that means. No outside dates. We never did a grand march. I am happy bc she is a senior and at least it's something. I don't think the public schools are holding a prom though. Her school has I think 175 seniors and I'd guess similar junior numbers. The public HS class is 400-500 seniors and probably similar jr numbers.

Not sure about graduation yet.

Yes the schools in our county are proceeding with prom plans; graduation still TBD. The middle/high school students have been hybrid all year and are going back to full in person the day after spring break, so time will tell if the numbers continue to drop. Right now the county numbers are low and still dropping.

Last year they did a prom after the school year was over and only seniors; no younger dates allowed.

Our high school is opening up for the first time tomorrow. I think about 1/2 kids are returning, 4 days a week every other week. My daughter would have had to change her work schedule to go in person for 16 days it was not worth it.

At a board meeting the super asked the hs principal about a Prom, he was clearly unprepared for that question and he said, they might have a senior picnic.

They did not get prom last year, the junior trip is the big trip, they missed it. So I hope Graduation is in person on the football field.

Yes we are. For the most part, we have been F2F. We went virtual and then hybrid for a few weeks just before and after Christmas. But are back to F2F.

Prom will be held outside, normally held inside. It’s also about a month later than normal too.

We got graduation last year, 2 months later but we did. I anticipate graduation being held on time and somewhat normal this year. Ours is outside. We had limited tickets (normally no tickets or limits). We didn’t get to go down on the field after, the kids had to come to us.

It was announced last week that there would be a prom. They'll do a Grand March followed by a dinner at a large local venue. They feel like they have figured out some way to have a dance. I think it's fairly safe to say that my daughter and her boyfriend will not dance, but who knows. We ordered a dress a week ago and have an appointment for alterations.

I hope that they can take off masks when it is their turn in the grand march. I hope they'll actually be able to have the prom. Cases have been increasing and it could easily be cancelled.

That's exciting, especially with her vaccines and an outdoor venue!

We will have neither of those, but limited to Jr/Sr only and wear a mask the whole time. We'll take it, it's still less kids than having the entire 9th-12th grade back in school full-time. I so wish it could be like this for all the kids. Not trying to diminish anything at all for your DD, just with most of them missing last year, was truly hoping they could have these milestones this year and it's just such a mix of what everyone will have.