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[quote=Anonymous][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]

A School wide party sounds like a lot of fun- much more fun than a dance where nobody dances. Do the kids enjoy it?[/quote]

It sounds more inclusive but these parents are messing that up by creating these exclusive side parties. [/quote]

I heard most kids go to the dance for 30 minutes, not even a full hour.  Snap some selfies and post pics on social media and leave. No one dances. It’s really lame. It’s all about the pre dance dinner and after party. I heard some parents rent limos  it’s gotten out of hand. [b]Yes, these after parties are not inclusive. Some are only for the popular crowd and exclude all the not so popular and nerdier kids. It’s sad it has come to this.[/b] [/quote]

This has ALWAYS been life in high school even back in the 90’s.  You just see it more because of social media. [/quote]

Yes. Ask me how I know 😀. I’m a reliable witness even though I’m “unfathomably old.” I started high school in the old days, gosh golly, that was back in 1987, and I still have a high school sophomore. I agree that it was easier back then, when the big party wasn’t in your face and all over social media. You could just sit at home listening to Madonna on your Walkman while reading Seventeen Magazine and pretending that everyone else was in their homes doing the same thing. Now kids orchestrate photo ops and alteri their photos to present the perfect social life, the perfect dress, the perfect body, perfect everything. I think it’s harder to see your own kid get left out than to be left out yourself. That said, my kid does get invited to at least some of these things some of the time, and that can make parenting challenging and scary for different reasons. It also makes being a teen more complicated for them as well. Theyjust feel a different set of pressures than the kid sitting at home. I actually think the kids who have it best are the ones planning low key sleepovers or hangouts with a few of their good buddies. [/quote]

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