Spirit Week: it’s just one little change, don’t Swett it, foo
Photo Credit: Darrell Nielsen
The junior heroes kept things positive and brought hope.
Athenie Galvez, Editor-in-Chief
October 17, 2011
Filed under Top Stories
It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. At least that’s how members of the Moreau community felt about classes’ skits in past years.
For several years, the main focus of all spirit week skits has been to make fun of other classes. This form of entertainment has become a sort of “tradition” during Spirit Week.
“After last year’s performances, a lot of the staff noticed a change in atmosphere during performances, because the skits were more focused on bashing other classes than building class spirit,” senior class senator Andrew Salvatin said.
Assistant Principal of Campus Life Katie Teekell also noticed a change in the demeanor of students and teachers because of this so called tradition, and questioned the need to keep it. After discussing this issue with student government, they came to the conclusion that there were no valid reasons to continue making fun of other classes.
“While class competition is part of the fun, there really is no part of bashing on other students that fulfills the mission of Spirit Week,” Teekell said.
In the past, feelings have been hurt, friendships have been ruined, and the themes of unity and family have been all but forgotten because of a few ill-advised punch lines.
“Some jokes were taken too far. It’s funny to poke fun at the other classes, but the jokes were becoming just insults,” junior co-curricular commissioner Kristen Leahy said.
“It seemed like Spirit Week was becoming less about getting the school excited for the Homecoming game, and more about bashing on the other classes,” Leahy said.
Like Leahy, ASB senate leader Ashley Nepomuceno saw that the goal of Spirit Week was to mock and ridicule the other classes for an entire week.
“We were competing to see who could make the best insults,” Nepomuceno said.
The onset of any change can be difficult to cope with, but senior co-curricular commissioner Richard L’Heureux thinks that this change, although a major one, was one for the benefit of the school as a whole.
The junior heroes kept things positive and brought hope.
“Spirit Week is supposed to be about coming together as a class, but at the same time, using the good-hearted competition between the classes to come together as a school,” L’Heureux said.