Promposals Bring Smiles to Scarsdale Students

Scarsdale High School students compete for the best grades, SAT scores, and college acceptances. So, naturally, students would do what it takes to find the coolest ways to ask their dates to the prom on June 4. Intricate "promposals," the term for these elaborate proposals, are a relatively new development in teen culture. Most parents or grandparents may remember being asked to prom by their nervously stuttering date in the school hallway, not with live animals or a musical number.

Prom is inescapable – each afternoon Facebook newsfeeds swarm with new promposal pictures and videos. Dress shops are clearing out, makeup artists are booking up. For those who have yet to find a date, the pressure can be stifling. With all this being said, no one should be taking any aspect of prom too seriously. The evening is just about high school students shamelessly dancing – or at least awkwardly congregating around the obligatory high-school-dance bowl of untouched fruit punch – and celebrating the end to high school. Prom is not the end-all-be-all, or the alpacalypse, for that matter. (See below for more alpalca puns!)

Here you have it – a collection of Scarsdale's brightest "promposers:"

Civ Ed advisors Robbie Keltz and Danni Hyman are featured after Danni was guided to a window to see her Civ Ed freshmen forming "Prom?" with their bodies. Seniors across the school reluctantly acknowledge: Freshmen are finally good for something!