Do all MCPS high schools have homecoming dances?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wootton parent here. There used to be a homecoming dance years ago. My DD graduated in 2020. My senior has had no interest in the event that replaced it. I have no idea of the attendance but I do think it’s unfair to criticize the kids who plan it. If kids want w change, they should get involved. Either way, based on my FB feed, lots of kids still get dressed up at Wootton as though there is a dance.

Do they also go to DC to the monuments?

[Anonymous]

My Blair kids went to fish market in DC with a group of friends (like 20 kids). I’ve seen Wootton kids in Rio during hoco weekends (happened to see their parents who need to drive the kids). So I guess kids who care hoco will find their ways to celebrate anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody goes to Churchill's dance but we do have one. Just not well-attended. Kind of sad. Hoco was a big deal when I was growing up. now kids like getting dressed up for photos but skip the dance

When schools moved to hire much cheaper DJ’s instead of live bands in the 00s, that’s when the interest level began to wane. Now there are no local bands left that market themselves for high school dances. It’s different in California, especially in Southern Calif, but in this area, dances have hit rock bottom.

That's ridiculous. Lots of fun dances have DJs. Kids want to be able to drink, so they'd rather stay out of the school dance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Blair kids went to fish market in DC with a group of friends (like 20 kids). I’ve seen Wootton kids in Rio during hoco weekends (happened to see their parents who need to drive the kids). So I guess kids who care hoco will find their ways to celebrate anyway.

But they can hang out at Rio other nights too. And they do hang out there on non homecoming nights. So what's the difference?

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton parent here. There used to be a homecoming dance years ago. My DD graduated in 2020. My senior has had no interest in the event that replaced it. I have no idea of the attendance but I do think it’s unfair to criticize the kids who plan it. If kids want w change, they should get involved. Either way, based on my FB feed, lots of kids still get dressed up at Wootton as though there is a dance.

Do they also go to DC to the monuments?

Wooton sounds quite depressing

[Anonymous]

Many MCPS kids get dressed up for a dance but then don’t go. Instead they go to DC for photos, out to dinner and then after party. Even if no alcohol, this is what they do. At my kids school (not a W school), the kids go to the actual dance only 9th and 10th.
But after that they still do the posters and hoco dresses and suits. Just don’t go to the dance. It is sad they don’t go to the dance.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton does not do a dance at all. They do nothing for homecoming and it's embarrassing. I think the student association is just a bunch of boring brainiacs that want it on their college resume but don't care to do anything for the school.

My friends kid (white) goes to Wootton, she told me that since most of the school population is Chinese, and their “parents won’t allow them go to dances or do anything fun (they have to be studying all the time apparently)”, the attendance for past hoco dances were ridiculously low and the school was not making any money and it wasn’t worth the effort/cost. So they decided to all together cancel the dance.

Your bigotry is showing.

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Whitman doesn't have one either and it's a very white school white person.

Exactly, there's a difference between the W school in Bethesda and in Potomac.

Wootton and Churchill hold more Asian students than WJ or Whitman.

Yah Wootton isn’t a W and has never been. It is no more one than Wheaton is. It’s cute you think it but only people who have lived in Rockville think like that

[Anonymous]

If a boy is shy, social awkward, and he has no date, can he takes his beautiful younger sister to photos and dinners with friends at public place like Rio? She can keep him company, and she does not mind going with him dressing pretty. She is tall and gorgeous, so she looks around their ages. His friends know her because she attends almost all of his sports practices and games.

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Anonymous wrote:PTSAs decide it. At our HS, dance attendance dropped bc kids were spending their time on dinners and trips downtown so now they offer a Friday night festival.

which school?

This sounds like Whitman. A Friday night carnival like event after the game but no dance

That sounds like more fun than a dance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many MCPS kids get dressed up for a dance but then don’t go. Instead they go to DC for photos, out to dinner and then after party. Even if no alcohol, this is what they do. At my kids school (not a W school), the kids go to the actual dance only 9th and 10th.
But after that they still do the posters and hoco dresses and suits. Just don’t go to the dance. It is sad they don’t go to the dance.

I’ve had one kid at QO and one at Poolesville and this was the case for both of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton does not do a dance at all. They do nothing for homecoming and it's embarrassing. I think the student association is just a bunch of boring brainiacs that want it on their college resume but don't care to do anything for the school.

My friends kid (white) goes to Wootton, she told me that since most of the school population is Chinese, and their “parents won’t allow them go to dances or do anything fun (they have to be studying all the time apparently)”, the attendance for past hoco dances were ridiculously low and the school was not making any money and it wasn’t worth the effort/cost. So they decided to all together cancel the dance.

Your bigotry is showing.

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Whitman doesn't have one either and it's a very white school white person.

Exactly, there's a difference between the W school in Bethesda and in Potomac.

Wootton and Churchill hold more Asian students than WJ or Whitman.

Yah Wootton isn’t a W and has never been. It is no more one than Wheaton is. It’s cute you think it but only people who have lived in Rockville think like that

Yes, Wootton is a "W" school.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/760110.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a boy is shy, social awkward, and he has no date, can he takes his beautiful younger sister to photos and dinners with friends at public place like Rio? She can keep him company, and she does not mind going with him dressing pretty. She is tall and gorgeous, so she looks around their ages. His friends know her because she attends almost all of his sports practices and games.

Boys hang out with their other male friends in hoco all the time. You don't need to have a date. Bringing sister is weird in my view...

[Anonymous]

Wootton manages to take all the fun out of high school. If it doesn’t count for college credit or make your college application stand out, it is not a priority.

Awful school culture. Awful.

[Anonymous]

Whitman doesn’t, but kids have the absolute best time at a big festival after the game and then Saturday they go to dinner and the monuments.

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Anonymous wrote:If a boy is shy, social awkward, and he has no date, can he takes his beautiful younger sister to photos and dinners with friends at public place like Rio? She can keep him company, and she does not mind going with him dressing pretty. She is tall and gorgeous, so she looks around their ages. His friends know her because she attends almost all of his sports practices and games.

Boys hang out with their other male friends in hoco all the time. You don't need to have a date. Bringing sister is weird in my view...

The way you are describing your daughter is very weird. It sounds almost …wrong. No, he shouldn’t go with her. He should go with friends