By: Aiden Nelson, Ariana Rojak, Alisha Bains, and Laila Schwin
October 13, 2020
In the midst of a global pandemic, school events are limited and prevented for fear and risk of COVID-19 spreading. However, sometimes all it takes is some improvisation of the plans to ensure that all can still have fun and entertaining community events, while staying safe.
Although the pandemic has canceled the important aspects of homecoming like the dance, pep rally, and assembly events for the homecoming court, BHS will still have a king and queen this year and even some socially-distanced events for the court.
The candidates who are on the court for queen are as follows: Haylie Cox, Karolina DeJesus-Pastrana, Brianna Luonuansu, Farah Shaheen, and Jamari Walker.
The candidates who are on the court for king are as follows: Stephen Chhan, Andrew Coyne, Alex Gere, Daniel Ileana, and Kevin Mei.
We emailed Mrs. Jacinta Bader, 8th grade English Language Arts teacher and homecoming advisor, to discuss the plans for this year’s homecoming events.
Q: How will the football game and crowning process for king and queen work this year?
A: “We will be crowning the king and queen at the football game on October 30. The court will parade with the band. The king and queen will be revealed by a rose, like we’ve done in the past. The only difference is that the court will need to be in separate cars, wearing masks, and socially-distanced on the field. We are going to try to have the crowning live on Instagram as well.”
Q: Will there be the usual type of events with the homecoming court, except socially-distanced?
A: “We are creating a meet-the-court video rather than having an all-school assembly. Spirit Week will be the week of October 26-30. To replace the pep assembly, we are putting together a video because the court participated in a BHS scavenger hunt that we recorded. We hope to get the athletic teams and band in the video, too.”
Although many of the events are canceled this year, the homecoming court and the spirit of the event remain, and the events for the court are sure-to-be just as fun as the ones in years’ past, even without the student body there for full support.
The improvised events are a good bit of normalcy in all of this, despite the circumstances.
Hopefully, next year, we can have the homecoming dance and all of the festivities back.
Good luck to all of the 2020 Homecoming candidates!
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