Ahh, prom. Poofy dresses, lost virginities, spiked punch. The overhyped teenage rite of passage that so few of us actually enjoyed.

There’s news that juniors at an all-girls school in Staten Island will be barred from attending their prom if they do not bring a male date. From some TV station in New York:

The juniors at St. Peter’s Girl’s High School have one week to find a boy to take to prom, or they’re not allowed to go. It’s a new rule that has some parents upset.

“I don’t think it’s right because what if they don’t have a boyfriend?” mother Tanya Altieri said. “[They’re] forced to go bring somebody off the street, or a cousin? That’s embarrassing … or your brother?”

I don’t get Principal Florence Bricker’s logic. I think it’s fine if a 17-year-old girl want to hang out with her friends during prom and not have some guy she’s not that into on her arm all night.

Alright, then, rabble-rousers. I’ve attached a link to the St. Peter’s Girls High School website here. I suggest we all flood Principal Bricker’s inbox and voicemail with complaints from all over the nation that she is totally archaic.

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