Homecoming poses threat to students’ plans
Kathryn Waugh, Student Life Editor
August 27, 2010
Filed under Opinion, Uncategorized
Students look forward to homecoming every year, whether they want to watch the football game, or just want to hang out with friends at the dance. They show their school spirit during spirit week and usually enjoy the various themes every year. The homecoming parade shows off different groups within BHS, like the band, cheer leading squad, and football players. Each class gets to make a float for the parade and compete against each other. Homecoming takes weeks of planning and hard work in order to give the student body a great homecoming weekend.
In years past, the parade and football game took place on Friday, while the dance took place on Saturday. However, last year the schedule changed the football game to Saturday afternoon which altered students plans for the dance. On the day of the homecoming dance, students usually go out for dinner with a group of friends and for girls, they plan enough time to get ready for their night of dancing and fun.
This year the schedule remains the same with the parade on Friday Sept. 10, while the football game and dance take place on Saturday Sept. 11. The football game starts at 1:30 in the afternoon. Members of the band, football players, cheerleaders, and the dance team all attend the football game for homecoming. With the football game starting so late this year, it poses a threat to students’ plans for homecoming.
The football games usually last anywhere from 2 to 3 hours, and with the dance starting at 7, students will have to rush around to get ready. The students involved in the football game stay all the way through which will make them change their plans for dinner. Band students also will rush around because they check-out their uniforms before the game, and check them in after the game. This can take a long time since the band is made up of over one-hundred students.
Not only will it effect students, but it will also effect businesses that expect teens to come and eat dinner before the dance. Businesses in Belton depends on the profit brought in during the weekend of homecoming. They will definitely lose some customers because no one will have time to go out between the football game and the dance.
With the new football stadium came new schedules for homecoming, but this change doesn’t benefit any of the students that make the homecoming game possible. The old schedule works better for every one’s plans and expectations, both for businesses that look forward to the profit brought in during homecoming weekend and students involved in the events planned for those days.
Nothing will change if students keep ignoring this problem in scheduling for homecoming and everyone needs to get involved in their school. With the parade and pep-rally on Friday and the football game on Saturday some members of the community and even parents will have to plan around the awkward times of these scheduled events.
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