Prom - You can't come unless you have a date of the opposite sex

[marcyinPA]

Private Catholic school. Of course it's legal. If it were an issue for your kid, your kid wouldn't be in that school. I would dare say some parents choose schools such as this BECAUSE of rules like this.

Now wait. I don't care if it is Catholic, private, Christian- whatever. To make a kid have a date in order to go to the prom is ridiculous. And this has NOTHING to do with sexual orientation in my book. Not all teens are even ready to "date". My DS is a senior, and has a steady girlfriend, but many of his friends are going alone to prom this year. They should be allowed to do so- I don't care what kind of school they go to. So yes, if my kid were in private school, and wanted to go stag to the prom, I would fight the rule for him. I might not win, but I would make his voice heard!

 

[goofy4tink]

My dd's prom was in 2011. She went with a very good friend, who also happened to be gay!! When it came time to go to the all night parties??? They hugged goodbye and went their separate ways. A lot of her girlfriends went stag....was never an issue. There were groups of girls and groups of boy/girls. Not too many groups of just boys though.
The kids can go with anyone they want....any grade (within reason anyway!!) is okay. Kids from out of town do have to have school permission, but that's just in case there are any issues and an adult has to be notified.
It's kind of stinks when groups of kids can't go to a prom together. For crying out loud, when it came time for the Senior Ball??? The kids decided that since they were going to Gillette Stadium, and it was a 45 min ride, they would all go on the big yellow school bus. They filled three of them....and they had a ball!!! All together. You would have been hard pressed to figure out who was with an opposite sex date and who wasn't!!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Now wait. I don't care if it is Catholic, private, Christian- whatever. To make a kid have a date in order to go to the prom is ridiculous. And this has NOTHING to do with sexual orientation in my book. Not all teens are even ready to "date". My DS is a senior, and has a steady girlfriend, but many of his friends are going alone to prom this year. They should be allowed to do so- I don't care what kind of school they go to. So yes, if my kid were in private school, and wanted to go stag to the prom, I would fight the rule for him. I might not win, but I would make his voice heard!

I'm not saying it's not ridiculous. I'm just saying it's they're right to set the rules. I do however agree that you as a hypothetical tuition-paying parent have he right to complain.

BTW, I went stag to my jr prom, and skipped my sr prom.

 

[Colleen27]

DDs friend attends a Catholic school.

That isn't surprising, then. The "no singles" rule probably is a way of preventing homosexual students from claiming they're going stag but really going together.

I still think it is ridiculous because it penalizes kids who aren't interested in or ready for dating, and coming from a faith that discourages pre-marital sex I would think the decision to delay romantic involvement altogether should be respected.