By Cassie Honeycutt, Staff Writer
Picture this: you go in to Ms. Deal’s classroom and there is a line of underclassmen in front of you. You have to wait 15 minutes before you get to the ticket stand. After what feels like years, you finally have reached the stand where you buy your beloved prom ticket. Already irritated from waiting, the special moment of buying your ticket is now ruined.
The irritation that statement brings me is indescribable. At the end of the day prom is for upperclassman. I understand there are exceptions to the unspoken rule. I understand people are in relationships with underclassmen and you should completely go with your significant other.
If you are taking an underclassmen friend, you can wait. You can hang out outside of school, not go to the junior and senior high school prom. I am sure you have other people to go with. Go to prom with you upperclassmen friends and then after prom go hang out with your underclassmen friends.
When you’re younger you fantasize about going to prom. You imagine the perfect dress, the perfect date and the perfect group. In that picture you are surrounded by upperclassmen and all of their dates.
When you’re an underclassmen doesn’t it make you feel slightly awkward going to prom? Not the slightest bit overwhelmed from all the stares you receive from the upperclassmen when you go into prom? Feeling silently judged that you intruded on their prom?
As an underclassmen, I personally wouldn’t be comfortable to be going to prom. You wait until you’re a junior. I feel like if you go earlier you ruin the long awaited ‘perfect prom night.’
Prom is a very special event. If you go as an underclassmen you lose the magic of it being about you. When you are a junior or senior it is your prom and the night is made by your choices.
I am well aware prom is a big deal. To find the perfect dress, a date, a group of people to go with and what your plans are after prom. Upperclassmen deserve to be excited about the special event. It is either your first prom or your last one, those marks in life are very big deals.
But just because this is an upperclassmen prom doesn’t mean that the upperclassman can think they’re better than the underclassmen. I understand that this is their prom, but they don’t have to think they are better than the underclassmen.
In the events leading up to the prom, the perfect promposal takes the cake of the most important. Let me say this very loud and clear, underclassmen cannot ask upperclassmen to prom. UNLESS you are dating or somehow romantically involved. If either of those things don’t apply then you cannot do it. You are breaking unspoken prom rules or even social code.
If you do ask an upperclassmen to prom, props to you. I personally would never because it is a very bold move. Not only being a bold move, it would cause a lot of talk about your decision.
The beloved prom night is about our upperclassmen who are experiencing their very last years of high school. As underclassmen lets let or help this night be about them.
Sophomore Cassie Honeycutt can be reached at 21honeycuttca35@daretolearn.org.
