[randog]

What on Earth do you spend over $2K for, on a prom??

That has me puzzled, too. My first thought is that it's a poor family's best opportunity to get their daughter married off...??

[Freddd]

The poor put it on high interest credit cards, paying then, 3 times more..(until they default and taxpayers bail it out)

[Flatus I. Maximus]

>> What on Earth do you spend over $2K for, on a prom??

> That has me puzzled, too. My first thought is that it's a poor family's best opportunity to get their daughter married off...??

More like they have no hope that their daughter will ever get married, so this is the next best thing. Where I grew up, getting knocked up on prom night was practically a rite of passage for the lower classes.

By the time my daughters grew up, high schools had daycare centers, and provided free baby-sitting on prom night.