The most amazing part, they WEAR these things. They pin them to the front of their dresses, secure to the bra straps and wear them. It is the most ridiculous "tradition" I believe I have ever seen. The boys wear mums too, they are arm garters. I cannot imagine spending over $300 that is just crazy. I'm at about $75 for DD's
I agree, those early morning hours are tough on high schoolers with jobs, athletics and just homework. The schools here use the same buses, the elem, then the high school then the middle school - not sure why the middle schools are in the middle start times wise but it all works. When we first moved here, we lived rural and DD was on the bus at 6:15 am with a 90 minute ride each way. We moved to civilization and she now gets on the bus at 8, off at 4 - her ride is about 10 minutes, we live 1.2 miles from the high school.