I'd like to point out that the word "special" is in my email address because my father set it up for me when I was 12.
It's kind of got negative connotations, yeknow, special as in, "special needs"?
Huh. I completely missed that.
So, student board has to pick things for next week (Spirit Week).
The advisor of the board was quite clear that we were to poll and ask people about what ideas out of the ones we brainstormed would work best and that they would want to participate in.
Second period of the day after, the vice president stands up and tells everyone that they've decided to do 'Disney' for the day that we have to dress up as a style of music. Apparently she and the President (They're friends, she was threatening to quit VP if the person she wanted as President didn't win.) had decided on their own what we're going to do. I know for a fact that she didn't talk to me or the other person on the student board, and a single period of class time is hardly enough to ask that many people what they think would be good ideas and then make an executive decision.
Eurgh. It's 'Spirit Week' this week for Homecoming, and things are going to shit at my high school.
In the original voting for each of the costume days, instead of write-in ballots, our tyrannical Vice President (the person who organizes homecoming week) gave every class four options to pick from to be 'their' spirit day. There are only five days in a school week, with the last day being a generic 'wear school colors' day. Due to the massive uproar when the President (one of my best friends) found out and told everyone over the intercom, we got 400 of our 500 member student body to drop off a signed "Impeach [The Vice President] Now!" slip at the front office. It wasn't in school policy, so the principle would not arrange a re-election. Instead, we brought forth three candidates, held our own voting, and elected them unofficially. They went to the ASB meeting the next week with a bunch of protesters (myself included) holding signs declaring the legitimacy of the new VP. The old one was kept outside by more students with signs. Though the new guy didn't get to vote, the rest of the board was convinced to redraft the Homecoming schedule with the write-in votes I had helped collect throughout the past week. This week's been pretty rad.
Monday: Duct Tape day. (Originally Disney day. Argh.) We made various articles of clothing entirely out of duct tape. I made myself a fantastical headband and gi.
Tuesday: Mustache day. (Originally Pop day. Yes, the music. More argh.) A friend of mine brought a skein of felt with which most everyone made fireman 'staches to celebrate the 40th anniversary of our math teacher (Who has that style of mustache due to his part-time volunteer employment) starting work at our school.
Wednesday: Counterculture day. (Originally Hippie day.) I forgot to dress up for this one, but it was pretty righteous seeing the sorts of things people came up with. Instead of just stereotypical hippies, we had people dress up as protesters, hipsters, goths, and even some people who made an effort to look like 'normal people' to avoid conforming to the dress up day, which was pretty clever.
Thursday: Nerd day. (Originally Nerd day.) We actually kept this one, with some stipulations. Whereas before the example dressup guide had taped-up glasses, too-small suspenders, and a faked lisp, the new one was much less offensive. People who self-identified as nerds were counted. Anyone dressing up like a stereotype (who didn't normally do so) was not counted.
Tomorrow will be the best, though. It's still Spirit Day as it always is for tradition's sake, but an odd form of it. The pep band was playing a song when they announced that one, so all everyone saw was a pair of cheerleaders wearing [My High School] T-shirts and some sort of frilly miniskirt things that are in no way in compliance with any sort of dress code anywhere. For too long has our administration let the dress code get out of hand. For people they like, it doesn't exist. For everybody else, it is very strictly enforced. Tomorrow, I expect to see most of the school violating every single rule of the dress code, but in school colors. I, for one, am wearing my XC shorts and T-shirt.
Oh, and this week the Athletics Administration took over the announcements to focus more on sporty things. (READ: FOOTBALL.) There was some stuff on girls' soccer, and nothing on volleyball or cross country. (Even though we actually win meets.) To display our displeasure, every not-football fall sport and all of the official non-athletic clubs are painting banners to place along the edge of the football field and around the hallways.
Viva la revolution!
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