What is it with people of color and prom?
It’s the same wit athletic shoes.
Same as graduation. You have never seen so much negotiation as the last weeks before graduation. I want to “walk the stage” with the people I have been going to high school with for the last four years. They don’t remember all the times they said the teacher wasn’t their parent, or they argued that they didn’t need to know math or English because they were going to be a rapper or play basketball in the NBA. I worked at a high school for years and I saw it so many times. Parents calling and complaining that they kid was cheated for having only 36% of a grade. They could not even bother to put their phones down for 50 minutes. Teachers have to give “extra credit” assignments. Kids move to online credit recovery classes and they can’t even do 18 hours which is enough to make up for a semester of math or science.