Seriously, scroll down the page for once...
All apologies, but anyway, I wanted to comment on "school spirit". This is homecoming week so there are tons of activities that the administration has cooked up to hopefully achieve the elusive unity among all students.
However, is that what school spirit is? I certainly hope that's what they're aiming for, since that is what we need now. The world has become pretty bipartisan for how open-minded it is. I don't think we need to emphasize the superiority of our school, per se, but rather bond us all together, even with our enemies. I know that Blaine are not our "enemies" in reality, and in sports rivalries are essential, but there's still too much hate in the world today.
Also, are parades and pep-fests really that effective in increasing student's unity? Perhaps: they are united in hating being forced to attend events against their will. Is this too cynical, or do we agree that these are kind of annoying?
Thoughts?
PS: Sorry for blogging so much today, I just felt like putting out a variety of new topics and testing the limits of my patience. XD
The whole thing is kind of pointless to some extent. I feel like people either have school spirit or they don't. The ones that do will attend the pep-fests and cooperate in the designated days. But the one who don't will avoid it all together. Either choice is fine, but I don't think the school should make you go to the pep-fests or force you to exhibit school spirit, especially when they say it's optional.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the attempts at our school to inspire school spirit are not very well received. That parade was a total flop, from what I could tell, most people did not want to be there and resented the fact that they were being forced to participate. Also, I liked how the pepfest was optional. That way, those who wanted to go could, and those who didn't could do something else. Then there would only be people at the pepfest who actually wanted to be there. Overall, I don't really know to increase school spirit at our school. It seems like no one really wants to.
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