[ShepherdsDog]

I definitely had a good buzz going on. We had a pre grad party party right after the ceremony and before dinner was served.....not shit faced, but a good buzz. We met at a friends place with our dates had a few cocktails with parents, while pictures were taken...and some vodka liberated from the liquor cabinet. We were driven to dinner and then to the community centre where we had the grad party. Technically and legally, underage students couldn't be served, but there were enough people(including my homeroom teacher and the principalnd his vice) there over the age of 18 who would get your drinks for you, and I'd been buying beer from the vendors since I was 15 without being ID'd more than once or twice....(once by some cops who were friends of my dad, who recognized me coming out of a vendor and getting into my truck)...besides I got drunk, not shit faced, drowning in my upchuck pissed.

We were released into the care of our guardians about 7 AM after a pancake breakfast. We grabbed about 4 hours of zzz's and then went out my buddy's cabin at Ochre beach and went water skiing and then had another post grad party BBQ that night with friends and family....a month later I was in Cornwallis.

[Lemmy]

There's no way anything like that would ever happen in 2012, at least not in Ontario. Virtually every policy enacted in education in this province is done in the service of limiting board liability. It's kinda like over-the-top political correctness...anti-litigious correctness, I suppose. Common sense is none-existent in the administration of public education.

We weren't drunk at our prom. We had wine with dinner, but that's it. I don't recall there being a lot of drunk people there. Most people "got it". The after-party was in a friend's parents' tool shed (you city folk likely don't know what a tool shed is). Lots of liquor and teenaged silliness but we were self-contained in a safe place and no one drove away.

[ShepherdsDog]

No one was allowed out of the building, unless it was with one of the designated drivers/guardians(parents and teachers who volunteered). Parents had to sign a receipt for your delivery if you were taken home. There was no drop off at a dark house. We had a doctor or two and a few nurses(parents) there as well in case anyone overdid it, and a couple of off duty RCMP officers, who were also parents. My grad class was 220 students and of that about 200 attended the party.....plus guests made it several hundred people. we wouldn't have fit in a tool shed.

[Lemmy]

You'd have fit in this tool shed. Your prom sounds like it was well organized. Today, however, there's no chance in hell that the school board would allow anything like you've described. No chance in hell.

[ShepherdsDog]

not likely seeing as some of the teachers(principal and vice included) were getting loaded with the students and buying some minors drinks. That would get their asses canned today. Mind you, that was close to thirty years ago. We didn't call it a prom. it was a grad party. A school in the next town west didn't hold their grad ceremony until late September, rather than the end of June. Sort of stupid as most who weren't farm plugs or losers, had left town, for work or university.

[jeff744]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

We had one of the first. The year before, Grad parties took place out in the bush, far enough off the beaten track that the cops couldn't be bothered to traipse through the bush for a mile or two, or out to an isloated farm

Around here they just tell the cops where it is and they just make sure everyone has a DD.