Students dislike hoco theme
October 3, 2019
The majority of Morton East students surveyed don’t like this year’s homecoming theme.
This year’s theme is called color splash. While 41 students did like the homecoming theme, in a random survey of 105 Morton East students, 64 students reported not liking this year’s homecoming theme. People love decorating the school during homecoming week. Some classes decorate their doors according to the theme. The first-day students get to wear their class colors. On the second day, you get to wear only white and black from head to toe. The third- day students get to mix and match as many colors as they can. The fourth day if they play a sport they get to wear red, if in a club they get to wear blue, if they have a pet they can wear yellow, if they are multilingual they can wear orange, if they’re a gamer they get to wear purple, fine arts students get to wear black, AP students can wear green, if they love someone they get to wear pink, lastly if they are employed they can wear white. The very last day students get to wear maroon. Homecoming usually has a homecoming court with a King and Queen. In high school, the homecoming game celebrates the careers of the senior high school athletes –normally the football players. Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back former students and members and celebrating an organization’s existence.
Many students are enthusiastic about this year’s homecoming!
“I am excited because I want to be with all my friends and this is my first year going to homecoming.” sophomore, Ramos said.
Surprisingly, even teachers and deans are excited about homecoming events.
“I’ve never been a part of a Morton homecoming. I’m excited!” dean, Mr. Depa said.
Interestingly, the coordinators of the homecoming events are stressed.
“So many different events, probably planning and keeping up with all the events. There has to be about 20 events that we need to keep up with.” homecoming director Ms. Courtney Miller said.
At first, students and teachers had opinions about the theme and homecoming.
“My favorite theme has been Disney because it’s more interesting than this year’s theme.” junior Fatima said.
And, complaints are often louder than appreciation.
“My heart goes out to anyone that has been in charge with a big event like homecoming and prom because students are usually filled with criticism and complaint regardless of what is chosen; I know this firsthand. You can’t please everyone,” journalism teacher Mr. Kent Frankfother said.
But, most students disliked the homecoming theme.
“It’s really complicated to go according to the theme. It’s not a specific theme and it’s too generalized. You can’t really do anything.” senior, Maria Aguayo said
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Dayanna Gonzalez • Jan 7, 2020 at 2:04 pm
Frankfother// I would love to see the school staff get input from students when deciding the hoco themes and even events for hoco week.
Bryan Ocampo • Jan 7, 2020 at 10:01 am
could work more on transitions
Yasmine Corro • Oct 10, 2019 at 11:10 pm
One good thing that this article has is the headline on making a good summary. But one think you might wanna fix is your punctuation.
Yasmine Corro • Oct 10, 2019 at 11:06 pm
One thing i really liked about this article in my opinion it had a good headline with a good summary. But one think you might wanna fix is your punctuation.
jose zarco • Oct 10, 2019 at 1:34 pm
it should be person who said the quote then the quote
Hector Avalos • Oct 10, 2019 at 12:56 pm
What was surprising is that most people didn’t like the theme. I believe that this years theme was good. Its wasn’t the best but it was good. I believe the article need a bit more details on why people don’t like the theme and why they choose this theme.
Briza Rodriguez • Oct 10, 2019 at 10:38 am
I was really surprised that a some students actually liked the homecoming them I honestly didn’t like it was to simple. In prove by making the background shorter and add in more quotes. But overall did a great job.
Zulema Padilla • Oct 10, 2019 at 9:25 am
The theme was basic and didn’t really go into depth. The decorations were fun and colorful, but overall who ever came up with this year’s theme must’ve not put too much thought into it.
Berenice Anaya • Oct 10, 2019 at 9:04 am
you had a great headline, i caught the readers attention. The only thing i would change about the article is make the background a bit shorter.
Lizbeth Guzman • Oct 9, 2019 at 7:50 pm
I think that in your lead you guys explained a little too much about the homecoming days. I feel like it would’ve been better if you guys kept your lead short and simple. Other than that i think you guys did good. I like how you guys included quotes from teachers as well.
Abigail Maya • Oct 9, 2019 at 2:51 pm
i liked the headline (eye catching) as well as the quotes used since it included the point of view of students as well as teachers.
Something that should be worked on is the lead as well as punctuation (according to AP style)
Melanie Moran • Oct 9, 2019 at 2:46 pm
I like the topic of your article. It’s very relevant to what was going on during Homecoming week.
Your article was great, but i think it needs a little bit of indirect quotes.
Xiumara Mariscal • Oct 9, 2019 at 1:51 pm
1. I think you followed that LQTQ format.
2. You could improve on your lead.
Daniel Villanueva • Oct 9, 2019 at 11:05 am
I like the theme is shows color in a overall blank school. In homecoming the theme of color splash was kinda missing though there wasnt many color only lights in a way. But overall the theme was nice and expressive.
Frida Marquez • Oct 9, 2019 at 10:31 am
I liked the use of quotes and writing on something that many students were talking about recently. I think what would help this article is double checking on punctuation, not saying Ms or Mr according to AP style, and check a couple of grammar errors.
Daisy • Oct 9, 2019 at 10:30 am
I think you guys did a good job with the headline, your headline really catches the students eye. I think you guys need more direct quotes of opinions of the students as opposed to listing the events for spirit week. Great job overall!
Fernanda Sanchez • Oct 9, 2019 at 10:09 am
Article was overall okay, I liked what it was about. However, there was too much background info, as if we did not know was was going on with spirit week. The quotes were pretty good.
Guadalupe Ceja • Oct 9, 2019 at 9:39 am
Good headline, called out attention and was interesting all the time while reading it. Also think the lead could be shortened and worded more interesting.
Carolina Tapia • Oct 9, 2019 at 9:27 am
Honestly I was extremely disappointed with this year’s homecoming theme. It wasn’t as interesting as last year’s theme which was Disney. It felt as if the people in charge of choosing the homecoming theme didn’t have any other ideas so they just randomly chose color splash.
jasmin mena • Oct 9, 2019 at 9:11 am
I love how they provided quotes of peoples opinions. it gives an inside look as to what people have to say about the theme. I also have to disagree with what Fatima said, i think last year’s homecoming theme was pretty boring. i personally don’t watch Disney movies so i wasn’t as interested
Yanitzi Llamas • Oct 9, 2019 at 8:11 am
Personally I agree with the students that did not like this year homecoming theme because the way they promoted it this year was way more off than last year and the dress down days could have been better planned personally I think that you should have included the reasons why her students did not like this year homecoming them to have a background on to why they don’t like it.
Lorena • Oct 9, 2019 at 7:16 am
This years hoco theme did not spark students interest because the color splash theme was pretty basic i suggest that next year you guys do a poll on what themes to do it will be very nice for all of us to participate so that we actually like the theme .
Lizabeth Betancourt • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:37 pm
The theme was its own category this year. But it wasn’t fun. Color Splash who thought it would even become a theme for a dance. But hoco week was not as fun since one of the rules was not being allowed to wear jeans. That is probably one thing everyone could argue. But overall the theme wasn’t as interesting.
Belen • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:06 pm
I think that this year homecoming was pretty basic and the spirit week didn’t go to its full potential.
Celeste Zamora • Oct 8, 2019 at 7:51 pm
I understand why some students disliked the homecoming theme this year because its was to general. But at the same time I do understand why some students liked the homecoming theme as well since its wasn’t that bad and you could ware different colors throughout the week. I do think this years homecoming theme could have had a more specific and it might have even been more funner. Overall, I think its wasn’t a bad theme since it was easy for people to get involve.
Ana Flores • Oct 8, 2019 at 7:44 pm
In my opinion this years homecoming theme wasn’t the best. They didn’t put that much thought into it like they did in last years theme. The school should let us wear jeans with the colored shirts because that’s what the theme was all about “color splash” so why not let us take jeans to make the color pop out more instead of making us wear the school uniform pants that don’t match with some of the colors.
E.Dominguez • Oct 8, 2019 at 6:53 pm
This years theme was not the best one, it was basic and not everyone liked it since we weren’t able to wear jeans in some days. This year the theme should’ve have been more creative and put more thought into it.
Clover R • Oct 8, 2019 at 6:36 pm
I personally think that this years homecoming theme wasn’t that bad. I think they could have came up with something more creative but it wasn’t that bad of a theme it was just basic .However the spirit week dress down ideas weren’t good at all they weren’t fun nor creative. I think next year the spirit wear ideas for hoco should be more creative and different.
Jilian A • Oct 8, 2019 at 5:52 pm
i personally didn’t like the hoco theme this year. I think we can do think of better theme than “color splash”. Spirit week wasn’t fun to dress up in the way they asked us, like for example we couldn’t wear jeans. They should come up with better things to do and what to wear on spirit week.
Enoc De Jesus • Oct 8, 2019 at 2:58 pm
I personally did not find the theme pleasing to dress up for. It’s a very basic and not very abstract theme which I believe there would be many better themes than “color splash”. There’s thousands of themes out there that are unique and could be great to dress up for, and color splash isn’t one of them.
Alexis G. • Oct 8, 2019 at 2:14 pm
I agree that this year’s hoco theme was kind of boring personal I don’t care if other students liked it but I did not. This year was boring and most students didn’t go to HoCo because of the theme.
Jessica T • Oct 8, 2019 at 2:13 pm
i didn’t really like the theme i think it was too boring. I think they could’ve been more created.
jacky • Oct 8, 2019 at 1:31 pm
i have a feeling they didn’t put so much effort as last years theme. last years theme it looked like they went all out on Disney and tired to actually make it look nice, this year however, was so basic.
Diana C. • Oct 8, 2019 at 12:09 pm
In my opinion the theme was a good idea but spirit week was too general. I think that we would’ve enjoyed it more if the theme for every day would’ve been more specific and we could’ve used more creativity. However, I did enjoy walking through colorful hallways, it made the school look more vivid.
Fernando Guel • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:15 am
I personalty liked this year’s homecoming theme because of people wearing some many different colors. However some of the posters were poorly designed but you could tell they actually put in effort. I see this year’s theme in a grey area.
Juan Ramirez • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:14 am
i think that this years homecoming theme wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst. I really think it could have been better but non the less the theme was alright and i really think it’ll be even better next year due to backlash and more creative thinking.
Joshairys Rodriguez • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:12 am
I didn’t really like this homecoming theme. Normally I’m really excited to decorate and come up with ideas but this theme was too vague to come up with a good picture. The decorations this year were nice but they were all of the place, from Mario to a rainbow Candy-land fusion. I think the theme this year should’ve been more specific like the previous ones.
Mason Magos • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:11 am
The color theme this year was simplistic and could’ve been better. Some of those who participated in the week of changing were noted on wearing black for the entire week, opposite of a color splash. Therefore, students were more excited to be out of uniform instead of the theme itself.
Nailea Chavez • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:11 am
I agree with most students about the homecoming theme because it was to general. We didn’t have many fun choices and homecoming week should be fun. I understand that it is hard to please everyone and everyone worked hard on the theme but I feel like there are better themes to pick from.
Natalia • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:06 am
I believe the hoco theme this year wasn’t all terrible, but it definitely wasn’t it’s best.
Ariana • Oct 8, 2019 at 11:03 am
The homecoming theme for this year was not good but it was not bad. Also need to give more information about the survey and how many people voted overall on the survey.
Diego Andrade • Oct 8, 2019 at 10:22 am
I din’t like this years homecoming theme. It was boring and basic especially the decorations. The spirit week was decent, but what we had to wear Friday was the worst way to end spirit week. Wow wear maroon, it’s basically asking you to Wear uniform. The decorations for homecoming were horrible too. I’m in student council and we had to use decorations from the hall to decorate. Everything was bland.
Esmeralda Ramirez • Oct 8, 2019 at 10:20 am
This year’s homecoming theme was a bit more lame than previous years but still interesting. I know that people tried their hardest to appease others but I feel like they could’ve done better with the theme overall because it wasn’t very specific, just colors. I like how in the article they use student quotes.
Yasmin Rodriguez • Oct 8, 2019 at 10:19 am
I loved how students opinions were included. Not only the students opinions but teachers and those who organized the event. It is good to hear the other side of things we don’t see. Such as we don’t realize many teachers and students were stressed and put a effort to make it a great week. I do agree about the theme, it wasn’t the greatest but was still a fun week. I would love for their to be more activities.
Karina Perez • Oct 8, 2019 at 10:14 am
I think the homecoming theme was very different compared to last years theme. Yes it could’ve been better or maybe more creative. But at the end of the day what matters is that the ones who went to homecoming enjoyed their night.
Marcela Alvarez • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:27 am
I think the homecoming theme this year could have been better. You can tell that the organizers tried their hardest to make a fun and engaging theme, but the posters were very poorly designed. Last year’s homecoming theme was far more interesting.
Jocelyn Davila • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:27 am
I personally did not like the homecoming theme, I thought it was to plain and boring. Last year’s homecoming theme was great! It was really cute and Disney related i mean who doesn’t love Disney. This year it was just based on bright colors it wasn’t as exciting as last year’s theme was. I wish whoever picked the theme could have come up with a more creative idea like last years theme.
Daniel Garcia • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:26 am
It was a good theme just the way they promoted it was a bit off.
Alexandra Campos • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:24 am
I really like this article because i could relate to the opinions of many students. I like how they focused on what the students thought of this years hoco theme and how they were affected by it. I agree to the fact that this years hoco theme wasn’t really the best.
jazmin • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:23 am
I personally didn’t mind the theme this year. I get that it’s hard to find a new exciting theme every year. The dress down themes could have been better though.
Julissa Carreno • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:22 am
I personally found it really fun how during homecoming week, students were able to dress in different colors according to specific things. However, I do agree with how this theme was a bit too general compared to last years theme. Perhaps, the theme could of been more specific instead of just focusing on colors, but the decorations were still very nice.
Isabel • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:21 am
I don’t think the theme this year was terrible, but I do agree it was kind of lame. The ideas on color powder and the events weren’t bad though. But I feel next year we should have a much better creative theme like, Under the Sea, Paradise, Fantasy tales, or Starry night. For homecoming week, we should be able to all show our individuality. And their should also be snacks given at hoco and water.
Katya • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:19 am
Overall homecoming wasn’t bad although it could’ve been nice to refer to a bigger number students over they’re opinion on the homecoming theme.
Adrian Jauregui • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:19 am
I did not like this years homecoming theme since it was so generalized and I think homecoming week was not something that students were able to have fun with. As for the article, I feel like this was not much about how students do not like the theme, but instead how people felt bad for coordinators of the dance and how people tried looking at the positive instead of the negative. There is only 1 comment of a student stating why she did not like the homecoming theme, so I say try to add more personal opinions of people relating to the article title.
E. Gallegos • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:08 am
I felt that you guys were focusing too much on spirit week and it made it less interesting since the majority of readers are students at Morton and already know this basic information.
B. Gomez • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:05 am
The homecoming theme wasn’t as exciting as they made it sound. Spirit week had about 1 or 2 decent days and the rest weren’t as exciting to dress up.
Aliyah • Oct 8, 2019 at 9:05 am
I think you went into to much detail about spirit week, it took up a lot of the article and was kinda boring..I personally didn’t like how they handled this years theme.
Tanya Robinson • Oct 8, 2019 at 8:11 am
Personally I think the decorations were amazing but as far as the homecoming theme it was a bit boring I feel like next time they should let the whole school vote on 5 different themes something kinda similar to how we vote for the homecoming court, and also we should be able to wear jeans I actually think with whatever homecoming theme there is jeans should be acceptable.
Gustavo • Oct 7, 2019 at 2:44 pm
I think that the hoco theme was not as not a good options.
Anthony • Oct 7, 2019 at 2:34 pm
the theme this year wasn’t that bad, it was just homecoming that was kinda wack.
Estevan Succiano • Oct 7, 2019 at 2:31 pm
Look, lets just go back in time to 2018, in a world where instead of the Juniors playing spin the bottle with Homecoming Themes, we can just pick a decent Homecoming Theme on Skyward. JS District 201, I know you’re reading this.
Samanta Tirado • Oct 7, 2019 at 2:24 pm
In my opinion the theme wasn’t that bad of an idea it just lacked the excitement from students and creativity.
Zuccboi • Oct 7, 2019 at 2:19 pm
Dis Skool Wak
sofia • Oct 7, 2019 at 2:01 pm
In my opinion I agree with students not liking the homecoming theme. this year the homecoming theme was not creative as last year. the homecoming week they should’ve of done it more fun because they didn’t even let us wear jeans and we only wear like one color.
Yasmine • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:55 pm
This years homecoming theme could’ve been better but yet again you can’t please everyone.
Adylene • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:41 pm
This years homecoming theme wasn’t that exciting
kayla • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:40 pm
This years homecoming wasn’t the best, and choosing something to wear was a pain.
Anonymous • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:39 pm
This year was soo bad. Improve
dayris • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:36 pm
I think that this years theme was very bland and dry. The spirit week was not fun or creative at all. The only thing fun about it was the homecoming parade and the color powder that was done after the parade.
stephanie zermeno • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:33 pm
The decorations for color splash were actually very nice and pretty but the spirit week wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. If they would’ve let us dress in jeans and have more exciting ways to dress I think more people would’ve liked it.
Michelle • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:31 pm
In my opinion, I liked the theme it was very nice and colorful. Also what can make this article better is inserting data of students who did like the theme and who didn’t. This article mostly states about the spirit week.
Anonymous • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:30 pm
I didn’t like the homecoming theme this year because it was boring.
jonathan • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:29 pm
I feel like the theme was too general and it needed more of a central idea. There should have been based on something and not just random colors.
tiffany • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:28 pm
It is true that a lot of students disliked the theme. i disliked it too, the theme was basic, personally i didnt know what the theme exactly was until i read this acticle. i didn’t know the theme was “color-splash” i just thought it was a rainbow theme. obviously no hate to the people who planned all of this.
Janet Ruiz • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:28 pm
I think it was basic and needed to be more creative. another thing they should of think more was hoco week they were basic it was different colors for each day.
Carl Martin • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:27 pm
This year’s homecoming was more of spirit week than anything else. Dressing down for homecoming week is boring and there should be more activities added to homecoming week. Your man, Carl Martin.
Luna Gomez • Oct 7, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Color splash theme was pretty basic and wearing colors throughout the week was lame. I was hoping to wear pajamas or dress up as something but overall the theme was boring. It was fun that they added mario in the decorations but that was it.
JoelCheeze • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:33 pm
I think that this years homecoming theme was kinda dumb because im sure there was better ideas that could have been used instead of the color splash that was chosen.
kayla • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:28 pm
I think that they should put a little more effort into the homecoming theme because i’m not going to lie and say it was the best theme because it wasn’t. But I mean I also understand that it is a lot of work to plan a school event but I still think that the theme could have been better.
Jazmine Munoz • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:27 pm
I think at the homecoming theme didn’t really provide for any creativity to stem. for example the days we got to be out of uniform I feel were kind of boring because you could just wear a different color.
Adamaris • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:26 pm
While this article explains a very good point about the opinions of the students at Morton the writing could be more focused. The article mostly explained what we did spirit week. Maybe it would help if the writer put in, for example, a student survey.
Carrell • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:25 pm
i felt it was kind of wack and the next year thing need to be better.
Adamaris • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:24 pm
This article shows a true opinion about most of the hundreds of students that attend Morton. About everyone that I talked to disliked this years theme because it wasn’t too creative, it was too vague.
Anonymous • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:23 pm
I feel like the theme was too basic
Keila Ceballos • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:22 pm
Many students disliked the homecoming theme, but I feel like it was mainly just what the different things we were able to wear/do for spirit week. The homecoming theme could’ve been better.
Horacio Gallegos • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:22 pm
good point, i didn’t like the theme too
Elizabeth Vergara • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:22 pm
This years theme was not the best. It could have been better. The theme left little to do for the spirit weeks & honestly students did not care at all for this years hoco.
Ruby • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:21 pm
I disagree I loved the hoco theme.
Noemi • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:20 pm
They could have put more effort into making the theme more fun.
Abigail Santander • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:20 pm
I thought the theme was okay, but they coudl’ve done better. Especially for homecoming week, they should’ve done something more fun like in the other schools. They shouldn’t have based the entire week on colors.
Anonymous • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:20 pm
The homecoming theme this year wasn’t the best.
Michelle Rivera • Oct 7, 2019 at 12:12 pm
I think this year’s theme was cool and very colorful. I liked it because you would dress with different colors.
Maya Contreras • Oct 7, 2019 at 10:49 am
Honestly the theme just wasn’t as fun.
Adamarys Mena • Oct 7, 2019 at 10:37 am
In my opinion I agree with students not liking the homecoming theme this year because they weren’t letting us wear jeans during homecoming week. The school acts like if we wear jeans everyday. They should’ve let us enjoy our homecoming week.
Juliana Mendoza • Oct 7, 2019 at 10:22 am
I think personal the theme this year was kinda dumb.