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I attended a Catholic grammar school that went from first through eighth grades. Beginning in 7th grade, we were allowed to attend the school dances. Sometimes really good local bands played. But it was a thrill to slow dance with girls. I remember soft, fuzzy sweaters and boobies. The girls were just starting to blossom, and the ones with boobs were popular.8.
I do remember wearing bell bottom pants, Beatle boots, a Neru jacket and gold chain with a peace sign medallion to some of those dances. LOL After all, it was 1966-68.
I think I attended the 8th grade graduation prom, but nobody paired up as dates. It was just like another dance.
I went to an all boy's Catholic high school in 9th grade. Co-ed dances were regularly held at the girl's Catholic high school.
There was also a dance every Saturday night at a local park in a building they called the Canteen.
I remember the same thing - boobies in tight sweaters. It was a novelty for a 12-15 year old boy.
I began public high school in 10th grade. I was an aspiring rock guitarist and vocalist and my friends and I started going to concerts a LOT. We also went to see good local bands. Some of the psychedelic light shows at those local events were amazing.
So I watched the bands but also danced with girls. I didn't hook up or meet any of my girlfriends at any dances, though.
I didn't attend the high school senior prom. For some reason, my girlfriend and I decided not to attend. We were kinda into the hippie/rocker thing and probably didn't want to get dressed up in stupid clothes for the prom. We were kind of anti-establishment by then.
Actually, I went fairly often. I had a blast in my high school years and attended all sorts of social events.
In terms of dances, I went to my senior prom. We did not have a junior prom but to compensate for that, our senior prom was about two weeks before graduation and then on the night of our commencement ceremony we had one last all night party. By the time of my junior year I had a steady serious girlfriend and so we attended those events.
Also, I attended all the homecoming dances save the one in my sophomore year. That one I missed only because I had the flu.
As I say, starting in my junior year, I had a steady serious girlfriend and I really enjoyed those dances. However, even the earlier ones were a lot of fun and I did not mind going stag. You'd go, talk to friends, maybe get a random dance here and there.
They were great times and I would not have missed them for the world. As I say, I had a blast in my high school - and college years, too!! Great times and great memories and I will always have a bit of nostalgia for those years.
We only had one dance, but my high school experience was very different from the average person's. I went to a very small high school, we're talking a graduating class of 14 kids being the largest that the school had seen during my time there.
It was an underfunded, but very intimate, christian private school. It was great for me when I moved from a school that had 100 kids to a grade to less than 100 kids in the entire student body, but that came with a lot of limitations. We didn't have a building, which was a big reason why the school was so small, the administrators rented out rooms for use in 3 different churches over the 4 years I attended. And the headmaster "didn't believe in school dances" so there never really were any. There was a senior formal, which was as close as they would get to a Prom kind of deal, where there was a dinner and parents were invited to come up and speak about how proud they were of their kids, accolades got announced, etc. but there was never any dancing. Just prom outfits and formal wear.
It wasn't until maybe the last year or two I was there that all the students got him to add in a dance to the senior formal so they started booking a DJ. Obviously, everyone wants the high school experience of a dance or two, but that would be the only one they ever held all year. As far as I know, they still don't allow for dances outside of that singular event even now, though I imagine there are plenty of students petitioning for them to change their minds like the kids before me did.
Yes, every time they was a dance, I went. Me and my two girl friends always did. It was fun. There was always something to talk about the next day at school. People would be buzzing from it.
They're memories everyone should have, I think. It's absolutely terrifying to ask someone to dance, but everyone should do it sometimes. It builds character, confidence, and it's a fantastic feeling when you actually get what you wanted.
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I went to junior and senior prom during both junior and senior years. Had a wonderful time. Scored points (no not that kind of score) from my date senior year because I had the florist dye the baby's breath flowers to match her dress color. They accompanied white roses.
When I was in highschool, I wasn't popular per se but everyone knew me. I was still a kind of loner, even though I spent time in all the groups. I just never felt a connection with most of the people I went to school with.
I'll never ever forget the night of the prom though because I was in my car working a pizza delivery job and I had the steering wheel in one hand and a gigantic wad of cash in the other.
I remember thinking to myself that I felt better in that moment than I ever felt with any of those guys.
I was happy then and I'm happy now about the decision.
I hated EVERYTHING to do with my school. I only went to senior prom because my girlfriend wanted to and I did not want to upset her. Of course my bullies were there as well and did everything they could to try to ruin things for me and my girlfriend.
However, I was able to blackmail the football captain into having the football team protect us due to me catching him smoking weed in the locker room 2 months before prom. I told him that as long as he and his teammates made sure nobody messed with me, my girlfriend, her friends or any of her friends' dates and as long as they promised to leave me alone the rest of the time they were on the team, I'd forget what I saw.
So when my bullies tried to mess with me, they all got messed with by the football team and that made our prom very memorable :)
Absolutely! I went to all of the regular dances, I went to all of the formal dances, I wrangled invitations to nearby schools proms and homecomings; I went to every dance I could. As to whether I had a good time… Bear in mind that as a boy my objective was always to receive some kind of sexual gratification. My enjoyment was contingent upon my level of success.
The goal of course, was to take my date (or someone, if I didn’t come with a date) to some quiet place for mind-blowing Prom sex…or, maybe, to get head in the parking lot…or grind against her on the dance floor to rub myself through my khakis…or, steal a kiss in a private corner and let my hands wander…or, failing all that, to get a feel for some hot girls as they pressed against me on the floor and ogle them in their dresses; storing up inspiration for some later satisfaction.
As a teen boy, dances were all about sex for me. —whatever I could get.
Went to the last one as a senior. It was great because it was probably the one things I didn't regret doing. And that was the beginning of soft-core rebel. And now I'm at the point in my life where there will be no regrets in anything I do now.
Nope. I hated the majority of my classmates and didn't spend any time in school outside of going to class. Plus i couldnt choose between the offers i had as prom dates and each of them expected to get laid after so i definitely didn't want to go. There was actually one prom dress i adored but the owner of the store was racist and ran away her black customers so there's that as well
My school did not have this. And as far as I am concerned this was a good thing, as I never found the concept (which you see often in American movies) to be any appealing; I don't like large crowds or loud music, and I especially don't like dancing.
u I went to them, but never really enjoyed myself to be honest. I never had a date for any of them and spend most of the time sitting at the table watching everyone else. I even left prom early, in tears, after a guy humiliated me in front of everyone and ripped my gown. I had to call my dad to come and get me.
I did not as I had to switch to a new school and didn't really know anybody. I kinda feel like I missed out but a lot of our class had some stuck up people in it and the one girl I would have liked to have taken went with a jerk of guy... lol. I was a tad jealous.
Yes. Skipped homecoming freshman test didn't have a date, sophomore year went with no date it sucked, Skipped Jr year HC, went to Jr Prom with a date it was okay.
Went to Sr Homecoming with a date it was fun!
SR Prom: went but didn't have a date. They were okay.
I went to two on the first and second years of gymnasium, third year was cancelled due to covid-19 (gymnasium=US high school (only three years, since the school system is different than in the US here in Denmark)). It was okay, never been big on parties.
Yeah, I didn't really like any. Shitty music, shitty food and evceryone trying to get loaded. Maybe is used to be a rite of passage when students had real sex but since that's been pushed back to middlw school I don't know. I was living w/ legal guardian by then and I said I wasn't going and they got pissed off.
We sadly didn't had stuff like that... I wish we did tho
Our "prom" was just us sitting in a big sports hall, listening to speeches of teachers and few choosen students and then go home lol
I went to a couple dances in middle school and never enjoyed them, to me dances were just me going from girl to girl asking if they wanted to dance and getting rejected until I just ended up leaving early and then thinking the next dance would be different but always ended up being the same after that I stopped going to dances.
u we showed up because we had to, but then we would ditch and sneak out... lmao
a few friends and my girlfriend at the time... which, all happen to be my best friends, even to this day. lol
I never went to any dances and feel so awkward on a dance floor. It just doesn’t make sense to me in most circumstances. Throw your hands up and jump?… why? Lmao!!!
Just prom. I went stag and danced with all the girlfriends of the guys who were too shy to dance, got a bunch of free drinks and generally had fun.
Otherwise I was usually too busy working after school.
I attended nearly every dance party & social event during my time in high school.
I had to since I was the one who mostly organized them.
And, yes, I enjoyed every one of 'em.
Oh you know it.
Ya gotta fight me to get me off the dance floor.
So yeah i was at every dance
I went to prom a few times. We just listened to music and took pictures, since we didn't get any food at our proms.
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