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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um yeah no this is not how HoCo went in my household.

Junior year. He wore an outfit from his closet. We dropped him off a school where he met up with his friends. He and four friends left around nine to go to a friend's house (parents home) and we picked him up at ten. No dinner. No party bus. A few iphone photos before he left.

Who is paying for all this for your daughter? Stop paying if you don't like it.[/quote]

Oh also. We are in the DCC, not Whitman. Maybe that is the difference. Most kids can't afford to blow money like you describe. We never would have bought in Whitman - overwhelmingly wealthy and white.[/quote]

Whitman sounds so incredibly toxic on several levels because of the loads of disposable money.[/quote]

I am the OP. I've long used this board for info on MCPS and college/university admission (the latter I'm not sure has been helpful, but that board is entertaining). These sorts of comments about Whitman frustrate me. To the person who said "We would never have bought in Whitman" - you have no idea how my family ended up in the Whitman district. Not everyone has the same narrative of "have kids, buy a house and base that purchase on the school district." We did not end up in our domicile that way. In fact, we didn't even choose it. And some might not consider us white, although some do (depends what school of thought you come from and what form you're filling in).

Sometimes, in condemning people's so-called "choices," people on here can really indicate lack of understanding that others' paths may not reflect theirs. It's a very narrow way of looking at things to assume all families are/were in the same situation as you, and thus any discontent they have is a result of them making different (i.e., wrong) choices. It's sanctimonious.

Back to the topic at hand, I agree the no dance thing is weird, and do wish they school-sponsored event (whether the dance, carnival or something else) was Saturday night so that kids who wanted something structured to do had that choice. I don't like what HoCo has become, and I think the person on here who said it's a parent problem is right - so would require collective parent action to change, which would take time, but is possible. [/quote]

Well said. [/quote]

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