7-Year-Old Plans Prom for High School Babysitter After It’s Canceled Amid Lockdown

7-Year-Old Plans Prom for High School Babysitter After It’s Canceled Amid Lockdown
Courtesy of Elissa Rogers and Becky Helton Chapman
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With the social distancing restrictions necessitated by the global pandemic, the prom is just one of the many things that high schoolers have had to forgo. But that didn’t sit right with a 7-year-old North Carolina boy.

When Curtis Rodgers heard that his favorite babysitter, high school senior Rachel Chapman, had had her prom dreams canceled, he and his mom decided to improvise a celebration of their own.