LITITZ, Pa. — A Pennsylvania high school ordered more than 450 shot glasses for its prom, a move the assistant principal now says sent the wrong message.
As the Warwick High School students left last week’s dance, the prom committee handed them souvenir shot glasses.
The girls who attended last year’s prom got a picture frame; the boys, a money clip.
“Unfortunately, this year the junior class didn’t have quite as much money,” Assistant Principal Scott Galen said.
The school ordered the glasses from a prom favor Web site. Galen said the principal signed off on the purchase order, but that paperwork simply said “prom souvenir” and didn’t identify the mementos as shot glasses.
“That’s how it kind of slipped by and we weren’t even aware what the item was,” said Galen. “It will not happen again; we can guarantee you that.”
Senior class president Phoebe Baum helped plan the prom last year, and she knows the kind of favor options that are out there.
“It’s always like a champagne glass or something like that, hoping that kids won’t do that, which is kind of like a mixed signal,” Baum told WGAL-TV.
There are several adults on the prom committee, and administrators talked with them about the shot glass decision but said they want to keep the specifics of those conversations private.
But Baum said it was probably just a hasty decision.
“I think a lot of times decisions get made and lots of things are happening at once and it wasn’t like, ‘Let’s all sit down and decide to have a shot glass,’” Baum told the TV station. “It’s like, ‘OK, this is what we have money for; let’s just do it.’”
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