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I think I could almost have tolerated the dress if it hadn't been for the fake tan !!! Why would you do that to a little girl? There just seem to be so many better ways of spending £1000 on a child. Thank heavens I've only got grandsons!

I am so glad that my GC are all in small rural primary schools where this sort of nonsense would absolutely not be tolerated - quite right too.

Great rockgran, that's what we want to hear

At a recent family party I attended I was amused to see one little girl of ten arrive in a prom type dress and another in shorts and tee shirt. Within minutes the first one had changed into shorts and tee shirt so that she could enjoy running about with the others.

I am so very glad that nobody tried to set up anything like these 'proms' when I was at school! My idea of torture... Not that I would have gone if they had.

Another duff idea from America...

Apart from being daft, does an 11 year old really need her hair and make up done professionally? If her Mum thought that slapping make up on a child was a good idea, couldnt she just do it herself? It isn't difficult is it? the bit that bothers me the most though is the statement from the Mother about always wanting a little girl to dress up, what is the little girl would rather do something else like her brothers? Gender stereotypes abound.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall in the staff room tomorrow....

Agree with all the above comments. This woman has more money than sense.

No, no, no - it's all wrong. What are we teaching our children? Materialism seems to reach higher levels of stupidity. Let's teach our children to value each other and have fun, not engage in daft events that encourage them to be consumers and competitors before they've left infancy.

I'm shocked, like everyone else. My daughters had a school leavers prom, and another when they left 6th form. Both had part time jobs, and I gave them a minuscule amount (in comparison with this daft story) towards their frocks. They did each others hair, makeup and nails - in fact our house was like a beauty parlour as various pals came to get ready. My anti US prom feelings were softened by seeing these girls having such a good time. I suspect the getting ready bit was the high spot of the evening.
One of those daughters works in a primary school, area of high deprivation. They had a leavers prom for the 10 and 11 year olds. The children all travelled in hummers, the girls all had hair and nails professionally done, and the boys had suits and evidently walked and talked like mini gangsta's. It's so wrong, let them be children a bit longer.

Ridiculous! I know my DiL wouldn't dream of spending that much. I think DGD is having a leavers' disco or some such thing. Their head teacher is very down-to-earth and a parent herself.

It really is beyond a joke isn't it. Once upon a time it was just a dance at the end of your time at school/college, and so it has progressed to being something which is probably out of the reach of quite a few people. My daughter's friend has twin girls, and neither of them went to the prom because of the cost involved. I have no idea how much my daughter paid for my grand-daughter's prom, but it looked expensive.

Wonder what her two teenage brothers thought about it?

And why has my heavens acquired an apostrophe?

Good heaven's, what happened to the leaver's disco? If they were lucky? Or maybe a barbecue?

Primary School Proms? How ridiculous!!

Far too young for such things. They are still babies not teenagers!

Oh my Lord No! And I'm quite sure DD would say likewise. Let children be children for as long as possible. I think the teen proms are way over the top too.

These proms are really getting out of hand and going down and down the age range. I was really fearful that my twin grandchildren would have one on their transition from infants to junior school but instead they are only having a disco ! Bad enough !

NO,NO, and NO !

There are no words . . .