PROM Week

The night of Friday April 24th was Anoka High School's PROM night!

The whole week we had a crash car on the front hill of our school. The car belonged to Danielle Pound. Earlier this year we had Danielle's car in our local parade. This is when we met Danielle's father. Danielle's mother, Melody Richards, created a website about her daughter: Danielle Pound. Melody Richards came to Anoka High School on Wednesday, April 22nd and spoke to our junior social studies classes about her daughter and making good decisions, especially during PROM.



On Thursday, April 23rd Connie and Nathan Backstrom came to Anoka High School to speak to our senior social studies classes about their sons and what happened to them along with how there are consequences for your actions. You can find out more about them at: The Backstrom Family.

Then on Friday, the day of PROM, we put on our annual Ghost Out. Every 33 minutes a student is killed in an alcohol-related crash each day; this is about 12 students during our school day. We had a Grim Reaper who went to a pre-planned student's class room every 33 minutes and gave them a t-shirt and a rose which was to represent that they were killed and could not talk for the rest of the day. The t-shirts said on the back, "I was 1/12 killed in an alcohol-related crash today." and so on.



Thankfully, none of our students were injured and we did not have any serious problems! :)