there was a great story about glenbard west's prom and post prom on fox news last night...made me proud!!!! (nice to have something good to say!)

For those of us that don't watch Fox News...fill us in, por favor.

Inquiring minds need to know...

I believe West rents out Health Track. Cuts down on drinking and frisky behavior.

can't find the story on fox's website to link. it was a very detailed report, showing pre-prom pictures at a GE home, talked to the student leader of "students for students;" interviews with GBW counselor Gilda Ross re: risks of prom, parent Mr. Crookston (leader of the health track after party)...all in all, made glenbard west look like one heck of a great high school. go west!

Hey!! That Crookston guy....lives right near me!!

Don't really know him.

How are our kids going to be ready for college if they aren't allowed to go out and get blitzed during prom night.

What kind of stories are these kids going to be able to tell when they go off to college. Yeah on my Prom night went to this health club and ran on a treadmill for half an hour. While the school counselors watched us. How boring.
Taking all the fun out of being a teenager

hey taxpayer...do you HAVE any teenagers?! as a parent i'll take boring boring boring any day (although i'm sure what i dont know...) ...they can get their stories after they turn 18!!!
anyway, it's nice to have something good to say about dist.87/GBW.

Well, there was at least one multicar accident on the way to the prom, with at least one parent's car totalled.
Happy?

There are a lot of good kids at GBW and most other High Schools. When your kids are older and you look back you wonder what you were so worried about. I still see [30 yearish old kids ] that my son went to school with and they seem to have turned out OK even in spite of Graduating from the Dump on the Hump.

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Originally posted by Dinsdale:
Well, there was at least one multicar accident on the way to the prom, with at least one parent's car totalled.
Happy?

Yours?

Geez I was joking already.

I thought GBW was referred to as the "Thrill on the Hill"

On this prom thing does the school foot the entire for Health Track. Or is there an extra fee for just the prom goers.

One contrarian thought on this the more responsibility we give the schools and the people who run them. The more they will ask for. And the less we will have. And the more resources they will demand.

Tony was there when they had to shut the school down because ceiling tile started falling. So during that period it was definitely the Dump on the Hump.

Most definitely not my car.
And there was a per person charge for the post-prom.
I seem to recall $40, but I may be wrong.

That last bit you wrote had so many typos in it that I couldn't read it. What the hell?

Geez Clam, your mind must be one of the extremely rare ones that reads a letter at a time.

Fan, brilliant.

As far as cost for Prom, there's a per couple cost for the Prom itself, then there's a post-Prom cost, plus the booster club kicks in some bucks (I think).

He is not that brilliant, he got it off of a chain email making its rounds. Sorry Fan, couldn't give you credit for that one.....

It is funny how you can read that without any problems.

hi taxpayer...i know you're kidding...but i'm in a state of relief. my understanding is that the accident happened right after a picture party (another way to tie up prom goers and keep them from doing what we did!) on the way to prom, and that no one was seriously hurt.
most of the post prom funding comes from the boosters...kids are charged 15$ pre sale, 20$ at the door each. barones' contributes boatloads of food...really nice of them.