Why is Homecoming such a Big Deal?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The girls are often more interested in the homecoming dance. A chance to dress up. The boy’s consider a sport coat to be painful 😬

Overall generalized sexist remark

but generally true overall.

This is exactly my kids - DS and DD teens.

Oh well if it is that way for 2 of your kids it MUST be for the entire world

[Anonymous]

The dance was not the biggest part and there was never limos, dinners, etc...

For us it was pep rallies, parades and floats, spirit week, competing against grades for the most school pride, having famous people come back and talk at school and doing the king and queen. School bonfire. The dance was minimal. The other stuff was fun.

[Anonymous]

No.

I could see prom being a bigger deal because senior prom is so once but homecoming happens every year and is a thing in college too…

Not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

I grew up around here, late 90s. We had a competition to build floats which many people participated in. Then the game, which a lot of people attended. The dance was as big of a thing; lots of people did not go.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It depends what part of the country you live in. I grew up in nY, and don’t even think we had homecoming. Spirit week was just for seniors.

No, it's a new thing, not regional. Homecoming was not a big deal at my school 30 years ago, but it is for my HS daughters who are attending the same school I did. I blame social media. Anything that could be a good photo op is now popular.

Speak for yourself and your area, I am your age and homecoming was huge where I am from down South, still is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hoco aound here is super weird to me.

I grew up in NY and homecoming was all about school spirit. We kicked it off with a pep rally. Each grade created a huge float and we had a parade through town. Football games were well attended by sober students who wanted to cheer on the team more than yell at freshman who are sitting in the "wrong spot". The dance was that evening and people dresses cute, but none of this mini-prom stuff that goes on here. People didn't go out to the country club or rent a party bus. Seeing groups of girls and boys with their dates all lined up is so different.

I liked my smaller hometown homecoming a lot more.

That stuff is still tradition. Only thing different now are the short-short dresses & big groups photos. And that’s all over, not particular to DMV

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised that so many people have such fond memories of high school.

Homecoming was a big deal where I went to high school at a big suburban school in the Midwest. I don’t know what my problem was, but I hated the school spirit stuff and the parade and the mandatory participation in pep rally’s. I didn’t realize that so many people loved it and genuinely thought it was fun. I thought most people just kind of grudgingly accepted most of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never went to homecoming. Only proms.

DS decided not to go this year because he went to his cousin's birthday party instead. He didn't seem as bothered by the whole thing until some friends pestered him about how he missed out on a "memorable and important" event? One went as far as insisting he lost a part of his childhood for not going.

Is homecoming really that important in HS? I don't get it.

Social Media is your answer. Hundreds of Photos in Snapchat and Instagram showed everyone having "the time of my life".

My son went to homecoming with a group of friends and he said the party itself was lame and cheesy but his pictures said otherwise. LOL.

The grass is not always greener on the other side!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends what part of the country you live in. I grew up in nY, and don’t even think we had homecoming. Spirit week was just for seniors.

No, it's a new thing, not regional. Homecoming was not a big deal at my school 30 years ago, but it is for my HS daughters who are attending the same school I did. I blame social media. Anything that could be a good photo op is now popular.

Speak for yourself and your area, I am your age and homecoming was huge where I am from down South, still is.

So is mean girl rushing behavior and frats that spike drinks. Doesn't mean it should stay that way.

The South is about as 1970's as you can get - and not in a good way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised that so many people have such fond memories of high school.

Homecoming was a big deal where I went to high school at a big suburban school in the Midwest. I don’t know what my problem was, but I hated the school spirit stuff and the parade and the mandatory participation in pep rally’s. I didn’t realize that so many people loved it and genuinely thought it was fun. I thought most people just kind of grudgingly accepted most of it.

Why would they continue to have things that most kids didn't love?

[Anonymous]

I just keep laughing seeing Hoco all over the place on here because someone was really irate when I used it last year and insisted it could only mean Howard County and nothing else. That person must be blowing a gasket this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised that so many people have such fond memories of high school.

Homecoming was a big deal where I went to high school at a big suburban school in the Midwest. I don’t know what my problem was, but I hated the school spirit stuff and the parade and the mandatory participation in pep rally’s. I didn’t realize that so many people loved it and genuinely thought it was fun. I thought most people just kind of grudgingly accepted most of it.

Why would they continue to have things that most kids didn't love?

Because they always did it that way, the kids that kind of ran the school loved it, and the teachers/administrators loved it. Schools do a lot of things that students don’t love and aren’t in the best interest of the students.

Do most students really love pep rallies?

[Anonymous]

I went to a top DC private and we did not have homecoming. I didn’t care. I remember one girl left for a suburban public school (her parents got divorced) and she came back and told us all about homecoming week. She thought her public was way more fun.

My kids are in MCPS and aren’t going to homecoming. They don’t seem to care.

[Anonymous]

At my high school, Prom was for Juniors and Seniors but Homecoming was for everyone. The Freshman and Sophomores enjoyed it because it was their big dance of the year. Juniors and Seniors enjoy the spirit week and the dance because they realize that the time in HS is going to be over soon. I think people are more comfortable going with friend groups and there is less pressure to find a date.