Talk about scheduling conflicts: my older son graduated college and younger son graduates HS on the same morning- many states apart. And it was younger sons birthday weekend too.
After the SAT, I think I’d feel like going to a party. Sounds perfect.
It’s not ideal, but maybe there were other conflicts for different weekends. My daughters never got their hair or nails done the day of the prom, and they did their own makeup in 20 minutes or less, so having a standardized test the morning of the prom wouldn’t have been a huge deal for them. Better the morning of the prom than the morning after, that’s for sure!
At my kiddos school, prom is on a Friday and you have to stay in school for the first two classes, out of four classes, in order to attend prom that night. They can leave at 11:55am. My daughter had her nails done the day before and had a hair appointment as soon as she could leave school. She did her own makeup. No problem at all.
The ACT and SAT are not held at her school, not a problem either.
Not being a product of “prom culture,” I find this thread highly amusing. My mother would never have considered trips to the hair and nail salons necessary on her daughters’ wedding days, much less for a junior prom, yet somehow we all survived.
This is normal. Both of my kids took the SAT on prom day. It will be fine, and they’ll have a lot to celebrate!
I really doubt the same people picking out the prom date/site are picking out the SAT dates. The SAT dates are scheduled a year in advance, but so are the proms in some areas with a lot of high schools. Both people call the secretary to get it put on the calendar and that’s the first time anyone notices a conflict.
I’m another one who doesn’t see this as a huge deal.
Now, having to take the ACT on an SEC campus on the same day as a football game, as my son did… I couldn’t believe the university scheduled the test that day. That was poor service landing.
Our school never hosts standardized tests. I get the frustration, and I don’t know why they would schedule prom on the same day. In our district, most kids just won’t take the test on a day they are supposed to attend some other big event. Perhaps the jr. prom is always on that particular Saturday and they didn’t want to switch it. I am guessing neighboring districts’ students use your school for the test, and your district probably can’t reneg on that.
The prom was in May. She took the June SAT and will take the October SAT in a neighboring district.
Here in Massachusetts they had a baseball playoff game the same time as the SAT, and they didn’t change it, Are you kidding me, I couldn’t believe it. I bet if the guy in charge had his son on the team and he was planing on taking the SAT he would have changed it. Yes, you have a gripe. My daughter had a dance event on the same date as the SAT subject test so took it at another time and location, and it was no big deal.
The state mandated SAT test is scheduled right after Spring break while the sxhool always have the week long orchestra or band tour during the Spring break every year with around 100 students and most of them are at the crade for the mandated test. They are all exhausted after the tour but I have not anyone complain about it. In OP’s case, it is totally a choice of the student.
I agree with @1or2Musicians. Prom and SAT=no big deal, but don’t you dare plan a wedding in the South on a football Saturday!
It may be that the people selecting the prom date didn’t have mani/pedi appointments the day of their own high school proms. (I didn’t–I didn’t even get my hair done.) Probably some of the people setting the date are men! And they wouldn’t think about it, until their own daughters are in high school.
My D took the SAT at a school about an hour away from us, even though it was also offered at a school about 20 minutes away from us. The reason for this: We had heard that SAT scores from previous tests at the nearer location had been cancelled, due to the failure of the proctors to follow the required security measures for the exams and to keep students quiet during the exam. Both my D and I wanted to go with one and done, due to the length of the SAT at that time (3 parts). So we decided not to take the risk of score cancellation. This caused no real hassles. I did have a slightly harder time than anticipated in locating the school that was further away (pre GPS in cars).
The SATs and ACT are scheduled more than a year in advance. Even football games at SEC schools are not set until the spring before, and the times are not set until ESPN and ABC and FOX sports sets them. A group of us from college are attending a game this fall, and while the schedule came out in March, the time will not be set until about the 1st of September. We’re guessing it will be a late game because it is two west coast teams, but the last time we guessed we were wrong and it was an early game. Last year we were told that ESPN had first dibs on the game, but if they didn’t want it at 1:30 or 5, it would go to Fox at 3, 7 or 8! Those SAT kids would have been long gone by then.
My friend’s sister scheduled her wedding around football. They are from Lincoln NE and there aren’t hotel rooms available when there is a game.
Our school had the Junior Prom on the weekend that falls right between week 1 and week 2 of the AP exams. I think that the people who scheduled the prom had no idea about AP exam schedules, nor did they really care.
Prom prep and prom festivities all day Saturday…until pretty late at night.
AP Chemistry Review session at school at 8:30 am Sunday morning.
AP Chemistry Exam first thing Monday morning.
She was super tired by the time everything was over. It was definitely a bit of a bummer to lose all of Saturday for studying and then have to deal with the post prom fatigue right before the exam. She had 3 AP exams to study for so she could have used the extra weekend day, plus a little more sleep than she got. She is on a spring sports team so the weekdays were pretty full.
I really don’t see how this is a big deal. There are only so many weekends in a school year–conflicts happen.