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Spirit week controversy

September 25, 2009

Ben Edwards

Spirit week has always been a time of creativity, school spirit, and wearing outfits so absurd it makes Lady Gaga’s wardrobe look like Old Navy. Although this year, students are feeling a lack of opportunity to fully participate.

Toga, toga, toga, bed sheets. The first day of Spirit week was toga day, students could wear a toga to school over a Hoban T-shirt and shorts. Many students liked this new idea because it was easy to participate in and a good way to start the week.

“It’s good, it’s new, it’s different, it’s poppin,” senior Tommy Arison said.

Other students though, did not like toga day thinking it was too simple.

Wear your Tuesday’s best on Tasteful Tuesday, the second day of spirit week becasue it fell on a day with school mass. Many students disliked and protested.

“Nothing good to say,” sophomore Myles Light said.

To their dismay, those students did not know that it was either Tasteful Tuesday or just Tuesday.

Students dusted off their flying broomsticks, and got out their pointy hats on Hogwarts Wednesday. This day was the center of the controversy for spirit week. While this is a new idea that’s never been done before students felt that it was no replacement for the infamous and traditional Wacky Wednesday.

“Hogwarts Wednesday, I’m just going to say Harry casted a wacky spell on me” said senior Ryan Ross.

Students felt that Hogwarts Wednesday was too narrow of a theme day being only able to participate as a Harry Potter character.

“There are not enough opportunities to put our own personal spin on days,” senior Jake Bisconti said.

Most of the controversy surrounding spirit week radiates from this day.

Decades day wrapped up spirit week before heading into Mum day. Decades day has become a tradition of Spirit week and almost a rite of passage as the different grades have different decades. Students either have a strong passion for this day, or truly do not care.

While some students may have loved this years spirit week and other students may have hated it, A lesson learned by student council being, you cant please all of the people all of the time.

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