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Originally posted by Maritime Q-Scout@Oct 17 2005, 12:25 PM
if the principal cancelled my prom I wouldn't have HURT MY LEG!!! - long story
you know what, it's their choice to "go all out" or to keep it simple. Actually what we did is have a "Safegrad" which apparently is becoming more and more common across the country.
Sure you can't drink, however you spend the entire night together with your classmates, some you'll never see again, others not for years, others once in a blue moon. If you want to do the parties, hotels afterwards go ahead. That's how we marketed it (unofficially) drink the night before, the night after, but let's have this one last night of EVERYONE together.
There's better options to curb spending like a Safegrad IMO.
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well Id like to agree with you MQS...however, there is a huge amount of pressure put on students to attend the afterparty that might not attend otherwise. There have been a huge number of documented cases where rape or death have occured at these "events". Or what do you say to a daughter who is 17 and graduates and wants to go to the bar with all her 18 year old friends? As a parent where do you draw the line?
In Calgary it used to be the choice for hundreds to go out to Twin Bridges...or Ghost Damn...Binge drinking and much else happened at these locations.
Where is the line between having a nice party with people you may never see again and an all out Frat party?