Boys asking older girls to homecoming

Pulse reporters interviewed students about homecoming dances, on a quest to find out if high school boys are looking for younger girls, and what this means for the senior girls who want to go to the dance.

"I am a junior taking a senior girl. I don't think that age matters because I really like this girl. When you get into the real world, married people have their ages separated by sometimes even 10 years." -- Graham Anderson, junior, West Jordan High School

"I am asking a senior because this is the last year for any senior girl to go to a dance, and they deserve to be asked by that grade because they will never have a chance again." -- Darren Bartholomew, senior, Cottonwood High School

"Yeah, (I'm going to homecoming.) I'll probably take Tyrie Thalman -- she's a sophomore -- because she's a cute girl and has a great personality." -- Paul Shepherd, senior, Juab High School

"The girl I am taking to homecoming is a senior. I would never take a freshman to a school dance. I would only ask girls that are within four years of my age." -- Cameron Young, senior, West Jordan

"I'll ask a sophomore, because I think it would be more fun. I talk more to the sophomores than the girls in our grade." -- Cameron Pitts, senior, Juab

"For homecoming dance, I am taking my girlfriend, who is a senior. Age has never mattered to me. If age mattered then all our parents would be the same ages. We are just being overcome by the differences in the school teams and inner school disputes between the grades. After high school, in college or just life in general, we no longer care about age, we only care about what the person is like. This is how I feel it should always be." -- Richard L. Simmons, junior, West Jordan

"I'll ask a sophomore girl because they're more friendly, they're funner to be around, and they aren't dating people from out of our school like the senior girls are." -- Kolby Ence, senior, Juab

"I am a senior taking a senior girl to homecoming. I don't think age matters at all. The 16-year-old age limit comes into play because of the LDS religion. But besides that, I don't really consider age as an issue when it comes to dances or dating. If I were a junior or sophomore, I think I would be scared to ask a senior girl." -- Adam Like, senior, West Jordan

"I will definitely be asking a senior girl to homecoming because I feel that I owe it to the senior class girls to ask them to all the dances." -- Spencer Banks, senior, Juab

Caitlin Holladay is a junior at Juab High School, Connie Yang is a senior at West Jordan High School and Angela Mabey is a senior at Cottonwood High School.

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