Graduation is for the Parents, Prom is for the Students

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Prom, the highlight of every teen’s high school years. Prom is the most anticipated school event, yet a question has arisen about the topic, should prom be banned? Prom may be questionable, prom shouldn’t be banned because Prom is just a dance that has been the same for years, banning won’t stop anything, and is a ritual for most high school students. Why is it that the thought of banning prom is only now coming up? First, prom is something that parents and grandparents went to. Prom isn’t some new thing as stated by Koren Zailckas, “Our American “prom” — a word first seen in the 1890s as a shortened version of “promenade” — hasn’t deviated from its original definition.” If prom is so bad why hasn’t it been banned earlier? Prom isn’t something that changes drastically over the years and will remain pretty much the same for generations to come. The people who want it banned don’t realize what teenagers are capable of. Second, banning prom won’t stop it from happening. “Telling them to “just say no to the prom” would inevitably lead to secret “illegal dances,” renting tuxedos from th...

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