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Formal dances
| Wed, 10-24-2007 - 3:32pm |
My DD15 is a sophomore and asked last night if she could go to the junior cotillion with a friend of hers (a junior) who happens to be a girl. She just recently started going out with a boy who's a junior,

For Homecoming last year, dd cancelled out on her date a few days before the dance because he was spreading some nasty rumors about her.
My DD went stag to all the dances freshman year and homecoming sophomore year and had a ball - pretty much went with g/fs and met up with some guys there.
So, is this a case where anyone can go to the junior cotillion?
Yes, you're right. You have to be a junior or the "date" of a junior. She would technically be this girl's "date". But it isn't a lesbian thing....they are just friends and they both want to go to the dance! I agree--I balked at first for the very same reason, but then I realized that it's a good thing that kids can do this. If I had had this option, I wouldn't have been so desperate to try to find some boy to go to my senior prom! That's why I posted this question--to see how commonplace this is, or whether it would look strange.
As it turns out, she now says she won't be going after all. When her new bf's "date" heard that my DD would be there too, she said she wouldn't go...so my DD backed out. Oh, the teen drama!
It is very common here for the kids to go to dances, especially formals like this. Girls going with a group of girls and same for the guys, or with mixed groups.
Very commonplace.
But the dance that she is talking about is a 'junior' dance and no underclassmen unless they are the 'date' of a jr can go and her dd is a sophmore...