Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, a bus to take kids to the Lincoln Memorial for homecoming?

Right?

As stupid as the photo shoots with the parents getting in the pics with the kids. It’s not a wedding.

It is homecoming. Why even dress up??! Go in your school's t-shirt or colors. At the monuments? Lol only in DmV.

Not just in the DMV, based on homecoming pics from friends across the US.
I think it is sweet & a nice rite of passage to go to homecoming. You get one childhood.

At our Northeast private school the kids vote on the theme and they NEVER pick one involving dressing up. They always pick the most ridiculous thing like dress like a pirate or outer space or 1970s. Doors open for the dance at 7, doors are locked at 7:15, doors reopened at 9:30 to let them all out. If you buy a ticket and don’t show up, the deans office calls your parents.

We don’t have issues with kids trashing monuments in limo buses and mommies whining that they didn’t get invited to the photo shoot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, a bus to take kids to the Lincoln Memorial for homecoming?

Right?

As stupid as the photo shoots with the parents getting in the pics with the kids. It’s not a wedding.

It is homecoming. Why even dress up??! Go in your school's t-shirt or colors. At the monuments? Lol only in DmV.

Not just in the DMV, based on homecoming pics from friends across the US.
I think it is sweet & a nice rite of passage to go to homecoming. You get one childhood.

What? Teenagers "across the US" are not bussing to national monuments.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, a bus to take kids to the Lincoln Memorial for homecoming?

Right?

As stupid as the photo shoots with the parents getting in the pics with the kids. It’s not a wedding.

+1 rich kid problems

+2

Buses of kids at the Lincoln Memorial? What is this for? Photos or something?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, a bus to take kids to the Lincoln Memorial for homecoming?

Right?

As stupid as the photo shoots with the parents getting in the pics with the kids. It’s not a wedding.

It is homecoming. Why even dress up??! Go in your school's t-shirt or colors. At the monuments? Lol only in DmV.

The monuments is my daughter’s favorite part of the night. Everyone meets up there and she has fun taking pictures with friends who are going with different groups and the pictures do turn out really nice. Then everyone splits up, and meets back up at the dance for a bit

What high school? This sounds fun.

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand the parents who willingly host after parties. It's a liability landmine and the house always gets trashed.

Admittedly I grew up in a big Southern Baptist area - our after parties were fun, but dry.

Is it just a girl thing? All the post I see online pretty much are girls playing dress up and not even going to the dance itself.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, a bus to take kids to the Lincoln Memorial for homecoming?

Right?

As stupid as the photo shoots with the parents getting in the pics with the kids. It’s not a wedding.

It is homecoming. Why even dress up??! Go in your school's t-shirt or colors. At the monuments? Lol only in DmV.

Not just in the DMV, based on homecoming pics from friends across the US.
I think it is sweet & a nice rite of passage to go to homecoming. You get one childhood.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, a bus to take kids to the Lincoln Memorial for homecoming?

Right?

As stupid as the photo shoots with the parents getting in the pics with the kids. It’s not a wedding.

It is homecoming. Why even dress up??! Go in your school's t-shirt or colors. At the monuments? Lol only in DmV.

The monuments is my daughter’s favorite part of the night. Everyone meets up there and she has fun taking pictures with friends who are going with different groups and the pictures do turn out really nice. Then everyone splits up, and meets back up at the dance for a bit

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, a bus to take kids to the Lincoln Memorial for homecoming?

Right?

As stupid as the photo shoots with the parents getting in the pics with the kids. It’s not a wedding.

It is homecoming. Why even dress up??! Go in your school's t-shirt or colors. At the monuments? Lol only in DmV.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was initially against the party bus rental but it actually makes sense. The kids all get on the bus and the bus then takes them everywhere for the night…dinner…monuments…dance…etc. Everyone stays together and you don’t have 8 cars of kids driving all over the place . Ends up running around 30-40 dollars a kid

Hmm how about this?

They just go to the f’ing dance and stop all the other crap.

You saying it is only $40 more per kid on top of dress, accessories, dinner, dance tickets, is ridiculous. It’s homecoming. Even all of this for prom is ridiculous. But homecoming?!?

What are YOU spending on these dances?

Dress 70-80
Accessories…jewelry she already has
Dinner..20 a kid (they order food and a parent hosts)
Dance tickets 30
Bus 40
Boutonnière 16

Total: ~200 all in

For 2 dances a year well worth it

Anonymous wrote:I mean, "a large group of teens were partying, drinking, and trashing the Lincoln Memorial" on Saturday night. I'd use a different word than *drama.*

https://www.threads.net/@alanhenney/post/DAwsOyqRLrU

What HS was involved? Does anyone know?

Anonymous wrote:I was initially against the party bus rental but it actually makes sense. The kids all get on the bus and the bus then takes them everywhere for the night…dinner…monuments…dance…etc. Everyone stays together and you don’t have 8 cars of kids driving all over the place . Ends up running around 30-40 dollars a kid

Hmm how about this?

They just go to the f’ing dance and stop all the other crap.

You saying it is only $40 more per kid on top of dress, accessories, dinner, dance tickets, is ridiculous. It’s homecoming. Even all of this for prom is ridiculous. But homecoming?!?

I was initially against the party bus rental but it actually makes sense. The kids all get on the bus and the bus then takes them everywhere for the night…dinner…monuments…dance…etc. Everyone stays together and you don’t have 8 cars of kids driving all over the place . Ends up running around 30-40 dollars a kid

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tale as old as time. Yawn.

Yeah I ripped up my ankle falling over barbed wire running from cops after a woods party.

It’s not that deep OP

A party in the woods is a lot different.

I will never understand the parents who willingly host after parties. It's a liability landmine and the house always gets trashed.