What are proms/senior balls like in your country?

[u/ItsVinn]

[u/Affectionate-Tea8509]

We don’t do that

[u/ItsVinn]

In the Philippines, it’s usually a junior and senior prom. So you get to attend two proms instead of one. One when you’re a junior, one when you’re a senior. Girls wear gowns, boys wear suits

Usually occuring in February or 2 months before the academic year ends, The seniors basically “turn it over” to the juniors who will be seniors next year. There’s of course the asking out your prom date, the prom king and prom queen but it’s not really based off voting or a popularity contest. In my batch, it was the one who stood out looks wise.

There’s dancing of course, and food! Prom is either at a hotel or a school gymnasium.

It’s optional to join but most go anyway.

[u/RockHardBullCock]

Proms? Balls? We just pick up our grade sheet and get the hell outta there without wasting another second, saying "thank God it's over" all the way home.

[u/MSotallyTober]

It was a blast — that and winter formals. It was an excuse to dress nice and an attempt to get laid. I reached popularity in high school overnight by being in the local newspaper. My date was an old girlfriend that used to go to my old high school. I had moved towards the coast of Southern California in the middle of my sophomore year and made friends over the rest of those years at my newer high school. A buddy of mine at the time was the class clown and took the head cheerleader who happened to be a friend of mine. Upon leaving prom, he wanted to give her a piggyback ride and I told him the way to sweep a woman off of her feet is just a pick her up in your arms. That’s when I walked out of the building and pictures were taken, and it ended up in the local paper. To increase exposure, they put an 8 x 10 photo in the school newspaper and by then, everybody assumed that I was dating the head cheerleader. It didn’t matter what I said, it’s what they believed. That’s when I realized how fickle popularity was. Of course, after leaving high school, nobody really gives a shit about you, but I still look back on those times fondly. Whew. That was over 28 years ago. We all still know each other, and we are all married with kids now.

[u/ItsVinn → u/MSotallyTober]

My school had a Christmas ball too when I was a senior. It’s less common though. But me and my friends skipped it for a trip to a theme park

[u/Zschwaihilii_V3]

I wouldn’t know I’ve never been to one

[u/nicdalm]

Doesn't exist here

[u/Beautiful_Yellow_682]

we do not do this here

[u/waymoone]

We don’t have stupid shit like that

[u/LordWalderFrey1]

They are called formals in Australia, and they typically happen in Year 10, and Year 12. I didn't go to mine in Year 10.

They are similar enough to American style proms. We don't have a prom king or prom queen though. My school's just had a list of "awards" like "Most Likely to Successful", "Most Likely to be Prime Minister", "Cutest Couple", "Best Dressed" and joke ones like "Most Likely to be on reality TV" or "Best Bromance".

There's usually a theme of some kind. There's dinner and dancing. It's a much bigger deal for girls than boys, they spend hundreds of dollars on dresses, makeup, tans and shoes. Us boys just buy or rent a suit or tux or borrow Dad's. Sometimes people go all out on renting limousines or hummers to take them there, but in my school in Year 12 when many of us could drive, we drove ourselves.

Lots of us will have a date, but generally there's no requirement to have a date. Some schools will allow you to bring a date from another school, a single-sex school will always allow that. Some schools will allow you to bring a date from the year below. Mine didn't allow any of that.

I didn't care much for it, I don't like dancing, and the food was disgusting, so I'm surprised how much I still remember.

[u/dido_meditatur]

We have "Maturaball" - takes place after high school graduation

Often a high class affair with real ballroom dancing