MD high school creates ‘gender-neutral’ homecoming court
September 28, 2016
By Victor Skinner
BETHESDA, Md. – A Maryland high school is changing its homecoming tradition to do away with the practice of electing “kings” and “queens,” and replace it with a gender-neutral approach.
bcchsThe new system for selecting homecoming royalty at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School will involve a list of students on a ballot for each grade, and those who receive the most votes – boy or girl or something else – will be crowned at halftime during a football game against Poolesville on Oct. 7, The Washington Post reports.
Previously, students would select a homecoming king from male students on the ballot and a homecoming queen from female students, but the Student Government Association wants a more “inclusive” system.
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