In every setback there is opportunity. The idea of having a party tied to a regimentation center could be a gone forever if students/inmates join together to host a private prom–free from their conservative neighbors who use the regimentation center to squash any type of unique behavior, including unconventional romantic interests.

A private prom would welcome individuality, not conformity. All would be welcome: individuals with any sexual interest, those who prefer casual clothes, students of any age. All these individuals could join together for one night to celebrate life, friendship, love, and the pending liberation of the oldest in attendance from the regimentation center.

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In late January, they finally caved to protests, and opened one bathroom for all of us to use, which is still closed every so often for no apparent reason. Now, the school is laid out as three hallways, one on each floor, with the girl’s rooms at one end and the men’s rooms at the other. They one they opened in the one next to the foyer, far from most classrooms. If I were to leave my third floor spanish class to use the bathroom, it would take me ten minutes to get down there and wait in the line, and another five minutes to walk back up. The administration dictates that only one student may be absent from the class at a time, so we have, at most, three chances each class to go.

In addition, they have installed cameras monitoring that men’s room. It’s rather uncomftorable to be using a urinal and staring into a glossy black lens.

And then we have prom…

Before Junior prom, they threatened the entire junior class (I was not there to see this, as I am not a junior) with not having a senior prom next year if there was any “dirty” dancing. They didn’t specify what that meant exactly. I went to that prom because my girlfriend is a junior. The DJ played only songs that would cause dirty dancing and more or less encouraged it. Two of the younger teachers who are married were grinding in the middle of the crowd. Most of the students there didn’t do any dirty dancing. The prom as a whole was rather clean. No one showed up drunk, no one got into fights. I still had to submit myself to being breathalyzed, and no one was allowed to leave before 11:00 (which was a real pain for me, because I had to drop my date off an hour away, then drive an hour and a quarter back home), but we all had a good, clean time. I’ve seen a lot worse.

The monday after, they call all the seniors together and inform us of the “new rules” regarding our prom.

• No dancing other than “ballroom dancing” will be allowed, violators will be ejected.
• No one may come in a group or in pairs, no one may come in a limo. We must be dropped off and picked up by our parents (most of us are 18+. One guy is almost 20), on penalty of suspension.
• We will have, instead of one of our classes, mandatory ballroom dancing classes (in a condemmed part of the building, no less), but yet we have to make up all our work.
• If we don’t show up for prom, and we are registered for it, they call our parents and the cops (They did this to the sophomores at their semi. It got ugly.)
• Any voilation by a senior means we won’t walk the stage at graduation.

So, instead, we’re renting out an 18+ club which happens to be a block away from prom, and partying there. I believe there are only 12 people registered for prom so far.

Thank you for your wonderful website. I’ve been a registered libertarian for 1 year and 4 months now, and I’m proud to be one. I am also a lifetime member of the NRA and ACLU. Most of the people I know at my school are the same way, and many of the people I know outside of my school. There’s hope yet.

Update (six months later):

We held the prom for less than what it would have cost of the school had run it, and we did what we felt like doing. There were no problems or anything, as we expected. It was great.

Commentary:

Great job on privatizing your prom. It’s unclear why schools have proms anyway. Should they throw a group sweet sixteen as well? Will college prep courses soon be having proms as well?

The bathroom story is horrible. We recently wrote about school admins who thought purple hair was a distraction. Needing a bathroom break is a distraction. Like the hair dye story, schools present the opposite of a normal world. Once students graduate and work for a living, they will be allowed to have purple hair and go to the bathroom without asking.

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The Delaware school’s lawyer warned that the Constitution might prevent the school prescribing a punishment based on the results of random drug tests. Therefore, to avoid lawsuits, students who fail the breath test will be barred from the prom but they will not face a suspension.

Breath tests are the latest reason why you and your friends should boycott and protest your government school’s prom by planning and attending a private prom. The prom would take place at a private hotel that would not administer breath tests. The private prom would also get rid of the teachers and administrators who are more concerned with the smell of your breath than with the party.

Government school proms are like the final slap in the face to high school students. After four years of enduring no-smoking rules, closed campuses, and unresponsive government teachers, students must then celebrate the end of their prison sentence with their captors.

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Found out later that the principal had a nervous breakdown after that! The teachers hate our guts, but who cares. Wanted you to know that the teenagers in Australia are putting up with a heap of crap like you guys over in the states!

Rock on guyz!
-Aussie chick

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