WHS reinstates allowing underclassman at Prom

BRITTANY WACHTEL co-editor-in-chief

WHS principal Scott Musser recently made changes to the Prom policy.

With these new changes, freshman and sophomore students will now be permitted to go to Prom if invited by a junior or senior student.

Musser said that what prompted this decision was a student coming to him and asking why underclassmen were not allowed to do so in the past. , “... we weren’t really sure of the origin of the rules to why they (underclassmen) weren’t allowed… we looked at other schools and they allow that… so we said sure.”

For Post-Prom, underclassmen will also be allowed to participate. Musser says that “If we have any issues with an individual, we will just ask them to leave.”

As for those who may be apprehensive about the new policy, Musser explains, “... still not everyone can go, you still have to be invited by an upperclassman…

Ultimately, I think juniors and seniors are still going to go with people that they want to go with… and I think that regardless, I want all the students to have a really good time at Prom, and if that means that they want to take a date from ninth or tenth grade… then I think it’s okay.” Prom will be held May 13.