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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Did Whitman tell their parents or the school that they don’t like homecoming dances? I don’t understand how something so standard was thrown by the wayside?[/quote]

Not that I'm aware of - first year post COVID, the student government association came up with the idea of the outdoor party, which made sense because it was outdoors. Then it stuck. There used to be a dance, but the last one was in Fall 2019 as I understand things. [/quote]

Doesn't seem like it [i]really[/i] stuck since kids are going through the hurdles of doing all of the rituals that would go with the dance the next day and organizing their own unofficial HoCo parties.

I'm curious why it "stuck" after COVID, but I'm not a Whitman parent.[/quote]

Well, it "stuck" in that it's now been held three years in a row. Yes, it seems many kids have kept the Saturday traditions alive sans the dance, but the Friday night party on the baseball field does seem to now be a tradition too.[/quote]

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