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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a freshman at Whitman and don't understand the history.  My kid didn't do the busses and all that stuff because apparently "freshman don't get to do that."  He did go to the game and the HoCo festival thing that happened after the game, which he said was boring.  But why doesn't Whitman have a dance - is there a story there?  Has all this other stuff gotten so over the top in part because there isn't even a dance?[/quote]

History is that dance ended with COVID. The first year back, they didn't resurrect the dance. Instead they have a school-sponsored party on the baseball field after the football game on Friday night. That has now gone on for three years, and it seems like the kids enjoy it (bounce houses, etc.). On the Saturday, self-organized groups do these self-organized gatherings that involve some combination of dressing up (or down, depending how you feel about those dresses), dinner, trip to monuments, parties, etc. And without the dance to anchor it, the ugliness really comes through. Sounds like a lot of kids don't go overboard, and kudos so those with kids who don't transgress. To me, it seems like a parent-sanctioned weekend of debauchery - things going on that other weekends they'd frown upon. [/quote]

A School wide party sounds like a lot of fun- much more fun than a dance where nobody dances. Do the kids enjoy it?[/quote]

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