Prom For 7-Year-Olds In England?
Posted by: Justine Fields
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2:30PM, Thursday July 16th 2009
Those silly Brits love blaming things on Americans. And right now they’re wagging fingers about a particularly American tradition: prom. As a result of the “High School Musical” franchise, prom is sweeping across Britain. And it’s making its way to kids as young as seven. These elementary school kids are buying gowns and renting tuxes, and they’re showing up for the big fiesta in stretch limos, completely outdoing American school dances, which usually don’t start until middle school.
Across the sea, parents are spending hundreds of dollars to outfit their kiddies for proms, which they’ll barely remember by the time they make it to their real high school prom. Yet according to one mother, prom “made leaving their infant school very special to them.”
I gotta say—I don’t think this one can be blamed on us. The Brits totally blew this one out of proportion all on their own. Seriously, don’t they know that movies are movies for a reason? [Daily Mail]
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G-Had
wrote on July 16 2009 @ 02:55 pm: [report]
This sounds like a total waste of money. Tuxes and stretch limos for seven-year-olds? Seriously?
eden
wrote on July 16 2009 @ 05:36 pm: [report]
The Daily Mail? Nice reliable source, there. A lot of us in the UK spent very little on our proms - my friend and I spent less than a hundred pounds each. This is pretty rare.
BlueGarnet
wrote on July 17 2009 @ 08:35 am: [report]
@eden - wow, I had no idea they even had proms in the UK on a regular basis. Is that fairly new?
The way I’ve heard it from my relatives in England, prom was a very rare phenomenon. I guess it’s in the past (maybe) decade that they’ve started having prom in the UK at all?