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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]

This makes absolutely no sense.  The party on the baseball field is fine.  But all this other stuff happening outside of school is not homecoming it’s just random folks throwing together random events with little to no supervision.  Sounds like what Whitman has is a parent problem that the school and PTSA should bring up.

Homecoming is already a ridiculous tradition in HS since most alumni are not actually coming back.  But to now make it a bunch of un associated functions that endanger kids health is beyond ridiculous.[/quote]
It's basically creating a shadow Homecoming experience. Which pretty much suggests that the community does miss or crave the traditional Homecoming experience, which suggests the attempt to replace the traditional Homecoming dance with whatever they do on Friday night is not working....[/quote]

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