Just read on FB a young mum bemoaning the fact it costs £45 for her teenage lad to attend the high school prom, plus around £200 for suit hire (for just 4 hours!). Some other mums are trying to help her, but I was just thinking "why the fuck did we import this whole concept from the USA in the first place?"
1. Probably social media
2. We don't say NO to the kids perhaps
@zleap it happened between 1990 (when I finished high school) and a few years before social media became popular, as I was chatting to a lad from Yorkshire on a forum in the late 2000s who was then in his teens and just left school and they already had school proms (he also thought it was a daft idea)
There are lots of movies, that as they are set in US schools or involve the graduation age group that include school prom.
I guess as with a lot of things they end up over here in the UK.
