Many people enjoy trick or treating as the main event of Halloween night, and streets are packed and houses are overwhelmed. The Pepperbox ran a poll on trick-or-treating attendance to get the real numbers behind the madness.
Unsurprisingly, just 56% of seniors are going trick-or-treating this year, a rather small percentage compared to other classes. Yet almost every senior who participated in the poll cited 18 years old as the age their Halloween pass expires.
The second lowest participation rate comes from the Juniors, whose participation is just 60% of the respondents. Most Juniors believe that you could never be too old to go trick or treating, which is the most popular among lower classmen as well. Freshmen have an 84% rate. Most surprisingly, sophomores have the highest rate at over 90%.
If those who responded represent the overall student census, over 800 students from AHS will be trick-or-treating. This may pose a problem for the hosts who give out candy on Halloween.
Our family, living on Little Pond, bought 5 bags of candy from Costco last Halloween. No more than two-thirds through the night, we ran short on candy. Many of our neighbors followed suit. To stretch your candy throughout the night, a Little Pond household must spend at least $150 on candy. This tall sum may lead to a lack of participation, not from the trick-or-treaters, but from the hosts.
Students can do many things to remedy this problem. One of the most viable solutions is to spread out trick-or-treat attendance. Instead of swarming the more popular areas, like Little Pond or Heartwood, the festivities could stay reserved to your own neighborhood.
