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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm. I feel like homecoming is barely even a thing now. My kids don't really care about it. [/quote]

This.  My son is like why would I go to that?  My daughter went as a freshman and thought it was awful.  I wouldn’t assume his friends are lying.  And get off social media.[/quote]

+1. Life is better without social media. [/quote]

So much better w/o social media. Although, I guess DCUM is pretty much my social media :) [/quote]

You don't need social media. Our school is having a "Homecoming Ask Week" next week.  :roll: There is a "best poster" contest. So now the schools are encouraging it. UGH.[/quote]

UGH.  that sucks.  Sometimes I wonder if anyone in these school administrations is capable of critical thought.  Our school just had twin day. It's a girls' school and kids are chronically excluded from cliques, etc.  Why on earth do you have to have twin day?

I am by no means a helicopter parent or an "life has to be easy for every teen" parent or any of this.  But come on.  Why of all the fun things in the world that a school could do, do they have things that are ripe for excluding kids on the fringe? 
And my kids are popular.  The schools could do better.   :cry: [/quote]

Ugh. I know. The ask day is obnoxious. Like, how do we make the non popular kids feel as badly about themselves as we can?! I know.  . . [/quote]

It’s because the administrators’ and teachers’ planning these things are reliving their high school years. The people I know from high school who are high school teachers/administrators organizing these events are very much the kids who were into homecoming and being popular in high school.

Same is true with the parents of my kids’ friends who are ms/hs teachers. I didn’t know them in hs, but they are all about dances and making sure their kids are popular. They also never left the area and their kids will be going to their hs. [/quote]

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