Update: Liberty High’s Homecoming Chaos Raises More Questions Than Answers
A few days ago we explored how a fight at a high school dance made every single local news story. There’s either more to the story that we do not know yet or it’s completely absurd that it’s making headlines. IWell it turns out the staff at Liberty High School may not have handled the Homecoming dance debacle as smoothly as the official emails make it sound. Students who attended are now speaking out, and what they’re saying doesn’t line up neatly with the “all is well” messaging from administrators.
Supposedly, the students who started the fight weren’t even Liberty students. According to sources among the parents, IDs apparently weren’t being checked at the door. Students say they went through a whole process the week before the dance to bring friends from other schools—permission slips, signatures, the whole nine yards. But on the actual night? One vice principal reportedly wasn’t even looking to see if the person holding a ticket was the same person who was approved to attend. If that’s true, it raises an obvious question: if IDs weren’t checked, what’s to stop them from showing up again?
Then there’s the issue of security—or rather, the lack of it. Students reported no security presence at the door, and officers were apparently camped out in the upper level of the fieldhouse instead of being on the floor where the crowd was. Maybe a millennial version of me would roll my eyes at the idea of security looming over a school dance, but in 2025, visible security is exactly what helps students feel safe.
As for the official explanation that popped balloons caused panic because they sounded like gunshots? None of the students I’ve spoken with even mentioned balloons. That line seems to be coming strictly from the press releases. Instead, rumors are flying in every direction: one student said they saw a gun fall out of a kid’s pocket during the fight. Another swore someone was stabbed. Whether either of those claims are true or not, the rumor mill is running overtime, and the silence from the school isn’t helping.
Parents are tired of the bland, “everything is fine” emails from Liberty High. Everything clearly wasn’t fine. What parents and students want now is honesty. If the fight involved outsiders, say so. If there’s an ongoing investigation, say that too. Pretending nothing happened only feeds more speculation.
Because at the end of the day, this wasn’t a mysterious balloon incident or an unavoidable panic. It was a breakdown in planning and oversight. Some kids who probably shouldn’t have been there got into a fight, the chaos escalated, and administrators lost control of the night. That’s the story. The sooner the school owns up to it, the sooner parents and students can actually feel confident their safety is being taken seriously.
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