Well, it’s Homecoming Week at Seymour High School. I’m actually excited about Homecoming this year. Not the game, but the activities we get to do this year. The parades that SHS has had in the past few years have been infamous (bleach-filled balloons, egg throwing, you name it). But this year, there will actually be REAL parades.
There are dress-up days at school like Hat Day (*rolls eyes*), Hillbilly Day (most people don’t have to dress up and aren’t ashamed to admit it), Tacky Day (tacky, people, not stupid-looking), and Color Day (who knew red is one of the school colors?). But some people could care less about the parades or pep rallies; they care about the Homecoming Queen. SHS has been pretty good about voting for people who actually deserve to win, but some people complain that the “same people win every year”.
It may be true so in that case, we should shake it up a little. It would be better if they had the candidates raise money for a charity or for the school and whoever raises the most money wins. Everyone always tries to find ways to make everything “more fair” and this would surely do it. SHS does a lot of money collecting for clubs and community drives, but raising money in order to win title of Queen would bring in tons. Imagine the moms and dads determined to have their daughter win and how much money they would collect to see the crown on their little girl’s hairspray-coated head, or the boyfriends threatening to beat up their friends if they don’t give them money for the girlfriend’s campaign. They would be saving trees because they wouldn’t have to make 500 posters to hang around the school.
This would also add the element of surprise to the announcing of the winner. Most everyone in the school can predict who the winner will be, but this would give the girls who would never win a better chance. Sure, some people would argue and say that we have the right to vote for Queen and that fundraising is lame, but high school students basically have no rights and our school needs all the money it can get. There are probably more eighteen-year-olds in the country voting for Homecoming Queen than voting for President.
No one could say, “The same people win every year” because it wouldn’t happen. Plus, it would be nice to have one thing about high school that’s not a popularity contest. Less grudges and hurt feelings would result from the process.
Almost all Homecoming activities this year have been changed to a more wholesome, community-based event and so far, it’s better, and so Homecoming Queen should be changed too.

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