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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a scandal at the dance pre covid - alleged sexual harassment at the dance.[/quote]

That was a different dance at Whitman, which was in the winter.

Elimination of the HoCo dance at Whitman was as described by a poster above.  I also think that the PTA started organizing the carnival on the baseball field even pre-covid to try to create an alternative to all of the alcohol parties (like a “post-prom” idea).

To be clear, at Whitman there were always a huge number of kids who skipped the dance anyway - they did HoCo exactly like OP’s daughter did.  A friend of mine graduated Whitman in the late 1980s and she said many kids dressed up but skipped the dance then, too!

The new carnival-in-lieu-of-dance format was supposed to cut back on some of that so it is sad it sounds even worse than when my kids were there. [/quote]

The carnival on the baseball field was post-Covid. My 2023 Whitman grad had the traditional homecoming freshman year. Whitman tradition was that only freshman and maybe seniors went to dance. Everyone else just dinner, monuments, etc. Sophomore year was nothing due to Covid. Junior and senior years were the carnival so this is year 3. A lot of kids go to parties, but by no means all. My DC went to friends houses where parents home. No alcohol or parties. Small gathering. But definitely a lot of skimpy dresses![/quote]

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