<p>I'm homeschooling. Not gonna go to a regular highschool. I really want the whole prom experience.</p>
<p>Any ideas? There are hardly any other homeschoolers in my area.</p>
<p>Do you have any friends in a public or private school?</p>
<p>Are there any large homeschool groups in the nearest city to you?</p>
<p>Our local homeschool group is very small....but in the city closest to us (about 30-45 minutes away) there's a very large homeschool group that holds graduation...prom...senior trips, etc. Membership with them is something like $20 a year.</p>
<p>You might want to look into something like that.</p>
<p>Certainly check around. There were no homeschool dances in our immediate vicinity, but there were some in our state that drew homeschoolers from quite an area around. One year my daughter attended two proms and a number of regular dances. (Now these weren't the usual prom experience nowadays with expensive clothes, limos, games, after-parties, and the like -- but they were more like what prom used to be like: dressing up nicely, going to a student-decorated space, and dancing.)</p>
<p>Is there a listserve for homeschoolers in your state? Get on it -- if there are no dances perhaps you can start a groundswell of interest for starting them. If there is no listserve, ask the homeschool support groups in your state. You can find a listing and contact information at <a href="http://www.nhen.org/support/groups/browse.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.nhen.org/support/groups/browse.asp</a></p>
<p>Both my older girls did the ps prom. They had to officially be "dates"--both went with groups. They both had a blast.</p>
<p>Go with a date or friends from a public school.
You can also try to find out about homeschool proms, although the idea has always been slightly strange to me.</p>
<p>Yeah, our umbrella calls theirs the "unprom." It still was fun.</p>