Prom - Brady

As a junior homeroom teacher it was my responsibility to chaperone prom last night. I also had the very important task of making sure the king and queen crowns and memory books arrived on time. I was really excited to go. Kevin bought me a corsage, we got all dressed up, and I was hoping to get to do a little dancing!

Didn't happen. I was actually expected to work. - can you believe it? :) I had to break up kids that were dancing dirty, which I only did once and just kind of looked the other way the rest of the time. I was also disappointed that a lot of the teachers were apathetic about the whole thing and left as soon as their shift was up.

It was really neat to see kids who are goofy and kind of unkempt at school get all dressed up and excited. It was also sweet how every social clique was represented. Everyone, no matter how cool or uncool their reputations may be, found somebody to go to the dance with and seemed to be having a good time. I saw our very intellectual acting and looking valedictorian there, our rock band kids, our athletes, some of our special needs students, and even a couple of the very apathetic students I have in my homeroom who I thought would be way too hip for prom. I was also really proud of the seniors' choice of prom king and queen. They are two very, very good kids who I didn't necessarily expect to win. I had some of those moments where I felt like I could be a high school teacher forever when students would come up to me to chat, meet my husband, and shake my hand. Our school really does have a lot of nice people in it.

I'll add some pictures later of Kevin and me.