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The school with one of the best proms in America has banned so-called “promposals” during school hours on school property.
The ban came down recently after what students and parents have told LevittownNow.com involved a promposal that drew dozens and dozens of students into a hallway between classes at Pennsbury High School in Falls Township. The creative promposal included a banner that read: “I know you’re gay as hell but can I take you straight to prom?”
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Video posted on social media shows the group of students screaming and cheering after the one female student agrees to accompany another to the school’s much-hyped prom in May. One video even shows a school administrator clearing the hall way following the promposal.
In the time since the large promposal, the district has implemented a ban of proposals over “safety concerns” during school hours.
Below is the statement from Pennsbury:
According to Superintendent Dr. William Gretzula, promposals are not permitted on school property during school hours due to safety concerns. Large crowds of spectators that were forming to witness these events prevented safe passage for students at various times and places during the school day. Additionally, staff believes in the importance of protecting instructional time. Promposals often resulted in students arriving late to class.
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Pennsbury high schooler Meghan Lucas wrote in the Bucks County Courier Times Reality section that the ban has been announced during morning announcements.
While Pennsbury’s promposal ban is a first in the area, the Central Dauphin High School in Central Pennsylvania and Solomon Schechter School in New York banned the practice several years ago over distracting promposals.
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As one parent pointed out, students can continue to be creative with their promposals, just outside of school and after instructional times.
