re: When did Homecoming in junior high become a thing?

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I’m 39 and home coming was big when I was in jr high.

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I'm 30. I didn't have homecoming until high school.

We had a "sweetheart dance" when I was in 8th grade, which had a court like homecoming (I was on it, lol). But that's it.

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and look how you turned out

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i make the best literary references and allusions in the bar.

Too many parents want to live through their kids
Let them grow up and figure it all out like we did

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When did Homecoming in junior high become a thing?

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South Texas - 7th and 8th grade we had homecoming dances, games, and mums

It was like a warm up for high school - which was a really big deal

Jr high? Here in New Orleans we had grammar school (k-7 if boy and k-8 if girl) and then high school if Catholic school.

Or lower school and upper school if private. Don't give a frick about public

If the school has a football team, Homecoming is a thing. How do you not know this?

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If the school has a football team, Homecoming is a thing. How do you not know this?

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Not many of the Catholic or private schools here were big enough to have football teams when I was coming up. So maybe that's it. Probably different in South Louisiana.

But I thought homecoming was usually tied to class reunions in high school? Who "comes home" to a junior high?

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if you were popular you would have known

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Yep. I see a lot of losers in here

Im 34 and it was most definitely a thing in Jr. High

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Some of us went to good Catholic schools

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and some of us weren’t born into your fortunate situation. I, along with the 5 other guys who shared the limo, were broke arse kids that had to cut a LOT of grass to earn that money for the limo. And the fun we had was worth every ounce of sweat it took to earn it

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Pretty sure the people in that picture aren't in junior high.

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I took the pic, genius. It was junior high.