middle son shockey survives prom!!!

out all night at prom, post-prom and sleepover post-post prom event at a classmate's house (20 teen girls and boys were welcomed by either incredibly patient or incredibly foolish parents). made it to graduation rehearsal at 11 a.m.

graduation at 5. two sons down, 1 to go in 2 years. hooray!!

 

I swear I read this as survives porn. Which, may have been the case as well.

 

Shockey gives the boy a talk before prom:

 

Did you tell him "Eatin ... never mind.

 

Did he go ATM at the post-prom party?

 

Wait, prom was the night before graduation????

 

bet middle son can't wait until Shockey picks him up from school after his freshman year...

 

and when I first read this thread title without glasses, I wondered why middle shockey needed to survive pron...

 

yup. they've done it this way for many years here to guard against prom-night drunk driving incident. graduation rehearsal is at 11 p.m. the next day; anyone who doesn't makes it or shows up obviously hung over is barred from attending graduation.

listen, no system can be fool-proff these days. where there's a will there's a way if kids are intent on getting shitfaced on prom night. and i must say i haven't heard of a single prom-night alcohol-related incident here since my kids have been in the school system (16 years now).

we returned from post-graduation dinner about an hour ago. 100 percent attendance at graduation, no reports of anyone getting home from a post-prom party spitfaced. just as any parent would hope.