spirit week

At our school, when we have our homecoming games whether it be for football or basketball, we have a thing that is commonly known as 'Spirit Week' where there are certain themed days during the week where everyone dresses up to show our spirit for our school and team.  Normally in years past spirit week has consisted of the same five days that have been used in the past homecoming weeks.  This year though, for winter homecoming Student Council got...well, I don't know how to describe it except for interesting.

One of the biggest changes to the spirit week is how they tied in each day with the homecoming game on Friday; we play the Andale Indians this year.  Monday was "Tie up the Indians" where we were encouraged to either wear a tie or tie-dyed shirts.  Tuesday was "Sink the Indians" where we were encouraged to wear a water flotation device to school. Today, Wednesday, was "Cripple the Indians" where we were encouraged to "dress like a senior citizen or come hurt".

Last week when the signs for spirit week were plastered around the school, I got a bit upset over the Wednesday theme.  They used "dress up as a senior citizen" as a cover for the "come to school crippled" version of the plan.  I had kind of forgotten about it until today, when I was walking into school and realized that people weren't just wearing band-aides on their body for the hell of it.  I brushed it off for the most part, but when people started using the word "crippled" in an extremely demeanor way, I got pretty ticked off.

Well, I'm not the only one.  I guess a parent or someone from the community called into one of the local television stations and got the channel to start an investigation.  I don't really know what to think of all this, except that I wish whoever came up with the theme would have used some common sense and shown some sensitivity.

Link of the Day: lolcat.com Just because we all need something to make us laugh when we're bored.

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