The time of year that everyone looks forward to is coming up. It includes looking for dresses and suits to wear, spirit week, and Friday night football games. This all leads up to the homecoming dance. Here is everything you need to know about Homecoming.
Traditionally, Homecoming is when alumni come back to school and are welcomed back with a football game and dance. The homecoming dance has music, food trucks, decorations, and is a fun event. It takes place in the upperquad on Saturday, September 28th, from 7-10pm. Students are not permitted to arrive after 8 and may not leave before 9pm. All grades can attend this and no tickets will be sold at the door. This year, the theme is tropical paradise.
“Homecoming is split up into two parts for the entire week, a homecoming football game and a homecoming dance,” says ASB president Devin Aaron.
The football game is also a tropical paradise theme and is a home game against Birmingham High School, which happens on the Friday before homecoming. During the halftime show, the royals will be announced, and each grade voted on two people to be homecoming king and queen. The winners will be crowned and receive a sash.
“At the halftime show, the seniors will be having a dance, which is tradition and they look forward to it throughout the years,” said Aaron.
The prices for homecoming this year is $50 without asb and $40 with asb. The prices last year were $35 without asb and $25 with asb, which is a $15 increase. Many students are disappointed in the rise of the cost. Freshman Tripp Beery had some thoughts about the cost of tickets.
“They are expensive and should be cheaper,” says Beery.
Other students agree, including senior Sarah Allen.
“I think they are a bit pricey. I feel like if they want everyone to go, $50 is a lot. Some people might not have the money to be able to go,” says Allen.
The ASB teacher, Kelly Ortiz gave us some reasoning behind the raise in prices.
“Realistically, we had to raise our prices because everything is more expensive. Last year we lost quite a bit of money because we didn’t charge enough so this year we needed to composite for the budget restraints,” says Ortiz.
The school expects the attendance this year to be around 600-700 students, so they will bring in two food trucks that cost a minimum of $6,000 each to feed everyone. With a plethora of food, dancing, and hanging out with friends, students at Calabasas are excitedly looking forward to this year’s tropical paradise at homecoming and it is sure to be a fun and memorable event.
