Prom!

Ah, springtime, a time for warm weather, flowers blooming and girls shopping around for beautiful dresses. It’s prom season here at Kennedy and everyone is getting excited. Boys are thinking up cute ways to ask girls to the dance and girls are freaking out over finding the perfect dress. As a junior I’m not really used to the whole prom deal because at my school we aren’t allowed to go till our senior year. Unless of course you are asked by a senior. Some schools have junior-senior prom which means juniors and seniors can go. I feel like this makes the dance less special.
Prom is almost like a rite of passage. It only happens once and I feel that makes it so much more special. When you have the dance as a junior-senior prom it makes it seem less special because you have already gone the year before and the magic is gone. Also it’s not just your senior class. You have to share your big night with a class a year younger than you. I don’t know about you but I feel like that isn’t very special. Prom is supposed to be one of the best nights of high school that happens only once. When you go more than once you begin to lose the magic.
Seniors have gone through 4 years of high school and now are about to graduate. This is the last big dance/party of their high school careers.  I feel they have earned this big night. We juniors have gone through high school too but I feel we will earn that prom the next year when we are about to leave. It just seems like you have only earned the right to prom once you are a senior.
If you are asked to prom but you aren’t a senior it is ok because you get to experience possibly another schools prom or another class’s. It may make your own dance seem less special but I feel the fact that you were chosen to go makes it different. When it’s a junior-senior prom you don’t really do anything. You just expect to go. I just feel prom should be a senior only dance. That way it’s a special, once in a lifetime event. You get to celebrate one last time before heading off into the real world. You want it to be special and perfect.