by Klarice Sakamoto // Staff Writer
The homecoming court. It’s an annual tradition for students to elect both their homecoming king and queen. This year Carson High School Associated Student Body decided to do things differently.
Instead of students getting to vote for their ideal homecoming king and queen, it was raffle. Each campus had their own individual homecoming court, Academies of Empowerment and Education, the Academy of Medical Arts, and CHS.
“We did it differently this year… We let each school determine how they would like to choose their court to represent their school and at the end we decided that we would do just a raffle to see who is the queen of all queens and the king of all kings. Something a little different.The overall king and queen was just a drawing,” states CHS Leadership Teacher Ms. Vernon.
AEE and AMA held an actual election where students got to choose the homecoming court while CHS raffled their winners. After each campus’ homecoming court was decided CHS Asb also raffled off the Carson Complex king and queen, which was announced at the homecoming game. Was this the fairest route to take?
“It was decided to hold the election as a raffle to avoid unnecessary drama. I don’t think it was fair, it took away some elements of excitement and defeated the purpose of the competition aspect of running for homecoming as well,” said CHS senior Serah Niupulusu.
CHS senior Zonaye Tupuola said, “I’m not sure why they raffled off the homecoming king and queen. I heard something like they don’t want it to be a popularity contest but that’s just what it is. Whoever gets the most votes should win because that is the only fair way.”
Academies of Empowerment and Education senior Makoa Tuisaloo agreed with Tupuola, “It wasn’t fair at all in my opinion to raffle off the homecoming winners. A raffle is pure luck, basically defeats the whole purpose of an election in my opinion. If they were going to run it this way they should’ve let all the candidates know ahead of time because I know my school (AEE) and AMA held a voting poll.”
At the homecoming game they didn’t announce that the winners were raffled. If CHS was going to raffle off the winners wouldn’t it be considerate to the other candidates to announce that the winners were picked rather than voted for?
Tuisaloo also stated, “If they were going to raffle it they should’ve at least made that clear to the crowd at the homecoming game. Everyone assumes they got the most votes but that isn’t the case because it was raffled.”
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