Monday, October 18, 2010

Spirit Week. Rah, Rah... raaaaaah.

This week is spirit week at my school.
Spirit week is only four days, apparently because it always used to fall in the week of Columbus day. I think it's just because the administration doesn't want to put up with it any more than they have to.
So, technically the festivities start tomorrow. But today was declared, by the underground of the student body, to be Zombie day.
It's one of those things when you think to yourself "I know I shouldn't care what other people will think, but I'm not going to do it, because I know no one else is going to do it."
Yup. Two of my friends dressed up. I'm personally in favor of doing one of those full out zombie vs. Human games, like the ones that colleges sometimes do.

I think the whole spirit of spirit week is lost. Which is fine by me. The whole idea is that we celebrate how awesome our football team is and sing the school song and chant things, or whatever. It's how I imagine Spartans must have spent their Sundays. Our school system certainly makes an effort to have it center around football. We have mandatory pep rallies (which I usually hide from, in the library), and the band at some point will march through the halls of the school, playing the school song. By the way, I can't think of a single person in this school who isn't a cheerleader who knows the lyrics of the school song.
The idealized spirit week and homecoming...is totally barbaric. So I like to think of it as just a week where I get to dress up in awesome costumes and shoot zombies with a nerf gun.

**An update on my taking down the system:
My letter went out early last week, and I still haven't received a reply from our superintendent. I'm giving it two more days, and then I'm looking into a schoolboard meeting.

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