How much have you spent on prom?

i think the cost of my whole outfit was £2943 :/

How can any of you justify spending the amount of money you have or are for a couple of hours?!
I'm not trying to come across rude but I honestly don't know how people are spending all this money?

I understand where you're coming from , I don't want to seem like I'm making excuses but I have always paid fully for school trips etc. and my parents both work however the school offered me the funding to go to prom and as we are always struggling moneywise I accepted it.

Yes it should be spent of free school meals and educational trips to supplement your education.
Not on prom.

you don't have to justify yourself to that idiot, the reality is that whatever the school pays for your prom ticket (and the few others who won't be able to afford theirs) is an INCREDIBLY small percentage of the government's money which the school has chosen to spend in this way.

enjoy your prom, you'll have a lovely time

It's simpletons like you who are too narrow-minded to possibly conceive the economic mess that this country is in. At a time when nurses and teachers are being made redundant it is incredibly foolish of you to consider it right that the taxpayer should fund 90% of someone's school prom! People suggest that it is unjust not to fund it, as the disadvantaged individuals will miss out, but these people really ought to wake up and realise how fortunate they are; many children in the world are sent off to work at the age of 9!

You are evidently a total moron with no understanding of the world around you; it would do you a lot of good to realise how privileged every child who is fortunate enough to have an education is! Wake up and open your eyes!

It's simpletons like you who are too narrow-minded to possibly conceive the economic mess that this country is in. At a time when nurses and teachers are being made redundant it is incredibly foolish of you to consider it right that the taxpayer should fund 90% of someone's school prom! People suggest that it is unjust not to fund it, as the disadvantaged individuals will miss out, but these people really ought to wake up and realise how fortunate they are; many children in the world are sent off to work at the age of 9!

You are evidently a total moron with no understanding of the world around you; it would do you a lot of good to realise how privileged every child who is fortunate enough to have an education is! Wake up and open your eyes!

I bought my suit for weddings/job interviews/Forces events etc, so i could justify paying lots for the suit

they are funding 90% of a TICKET. what is that? like £20 (according to all these people here who seemed to have extortionate prom ticket prices ours were £10) per person who isn't able to pay... i doubt there would be many who fall into that category. that's a tiny amount compared to the money each school recieves... and a minute percentage of the total amount of money the government has.

maybe you should start looking at all the other areas where the government wastes huge amounts of money rather than begrudging a school giving small change to a 15/16 year old so they can have the same experience as their friends... most of which will probably be covered by the other students tickets anyway.

A couple of £££'s here a couple there it adds up. It still doesn't detract from the fact that the money could be used elsewhere in society, somewhere it would be more beneficial.
Just because the government wastes money elsewhere doesn't make wasting money on things like prom which is luxury justified.

it's not about prom it's about the people involved.

it's all good saying "this could be spent elsewhere"... but the reality is it wouldn't. that money is allocated to schools to help children who need financial help. they are not going to go in and monitor what each school spends it on for each child, the bureaucracy would cost more than the trivial amount they would gain.