# HS graduates: ever go back for a homecoming? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 31, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774 "2016-01-31T19:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/1 "2016-01-31T19:57:53Z")
This is a branch from the “high school reunion” thread. Every high school has a “homecoming,” usually involving a football game (I don’t know what the schools that don’t play football do), naming a Homecoming Queen (and, in some cases, a King as well), and a dance for the students that night. However, I never hear of anybody actually returning to the school on Homecoming Day, except for the parents of the football players / cheerleaders / homecoming court that also went to the school. Have any of you ever been to your high school’s homecoming game after you graduated? Personally, I only missed two of the first 20 before I moved away from the area (one where I was still in college and went to that school’s football game instead, and one where I was sick), but I didn’t have much choice as I worked in the press box for the football games. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/2 "2016-01-31T20:18:19Z")
No, not even one. Not for my university, either. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/3 "2016-01-31T20:51:29Z")
One maybe? Right after high school. That was a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/4 "2016-01-31T22:55:01Z")
I haven’t stepped foot in the school since graduating. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/5 "2016-01-31T23:13:47Z")
Yes. I run the alumni band group and for the last 2 years we’ve decided to have our performance at the homecoming game. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/6 "2016-01-31T23:17:58Z")
I never even went to home coming when I was a student there! However, I did take great satisfaction that we lost the homecoming football game every one of those four years. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/7 "2016-02-01T00:56:27Z")
My high school has homecoming and reunions on the same weekend, so the alums can also attend homecoming and so on. I only went back for my 10th, though now that I think about it, my 30th is coming up next year. :eek::eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/8 "2016-02-01T01:44:31Z")
I’ve been to exactly as many as I attended in high school - zero. After my tenth reunion the school sort of went through a change in how they did things with a reunion lull and then a “reunion weekend” for all classes. IIRC that event is scheduled in conjunction with the weekend of a football game for one of our major rivals and not necessarily the game called homecoming. I can’t say for sure because at that point it started getting ignored. My class actually held it’s own, completely separate from the school, 25th reunion. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/9 "2016-02-01T02:43:29Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > This is a branch from the “high school reunion” thread. > > Every high school has a “homecoming,” usually involving a football game … My school didn’t have football and doesn’t have homecoming, so “No”. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/10 "2016-02-01T02:48:37Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > My school didn’t have football and doesn’t have homecoming, so “No”. Same here. Homecoming? Homecoming king and queen? HS football team? Not part of my experience. We did have a semiformal dance one winter that involved the crowning of…somebody…to do…something. I don’t really remember. I didn’t go. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/11 "2016-02-01T04:11:57Z")
Got my 50th coming up ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/12 "2016-02-01T04:49:41Z")
The only thing I wanted out of High School or college were the diplomas. No interest in returning for much of anything. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/13 "2016-02-01T05:14:28Z")
nope. never been back for either a reunion or a homecoming. High School or university or grad school. Just not on the radar and for most of those I live in Asia and lemme tell ya that doing an expensive, long ass flight from Asia to attend a high school reunion really doesn’t even register on the radar as something I’d want to do. Lesso for homecoming. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/14 "2016-02-01T06:43:24Z")
Nope. Even when I lived within a sane distance of my school, I had zero interest in sports. Still don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/15 "2016-02-01T06:53:09Z")
This is the first I’ve heard of going back for homecoming. I guess it explains the name. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/16 "2016-02-01T07:30:14Z")
I never knew it was a thing until I moved to a small town and found out everyone did it. It never occurred to me. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/17 "2016-02-01T07:38:12Z")
I went to the first one, the year after I graduated. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/18 "2016-02-01T09:45:44Z")
The tenth, lots of MD’s, lawyers, engineers. The twentieth, still with the lead pack, but lots of PhD’s and some already with media exposure. And then on the thirtieth, a couple became judges, one general, several became consuls, CEO’s, one became the 23rd richest man in the country. But I’m the only Doper in the batch. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/19 "2016-02-01T10:37:12Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > My school didn’t have football and doesn’t have homecoming, so “No”. I don’t think “homecoming” is a Canadian thing. Is it? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774/20 "2016-02-01T12:34:06Z")
Except at Queen’s. Oil thigh! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hs-graduates-ever-go-back-for-a-homecoming/744774.md?page=2)