It's Spirit Week at the High School! Every day has a different dress-up theme. Yesterday was "Decade Day" dress as your favorite decade. Today is "Color Day" each class wears an assigned color. Wednesday is "Team Day" wear your favorite team shirt. ( Inga will wear a Team Edward shirt which is a character from her favorite book series, Twilight.) Thursday is Crazy Day which needs no explaining except to say nighties are forbidden. And Friday is Raider Day ( all of our sports teams are called Blue Raiders) and the Pep Rally. I didn't go to a normal American High School with sports teams so I have no way of knowing if this is all common practice. I do know we had a Japanese exchange student living with us one year who found the whole thing very very strange.
Speaking of school spirit here's a sad story from our local paper this morning. Yesterday our girl's soccer team had an away game. An adult spectator for the other team started yelling racial slurs at two of our fourteen year old soccer players. Other team members tried to defend the girls and told the man to shut up. The girls started to cry. He continued and the referees did nothing despite parent complaint. Our team walked off the field to jeering and catcalls which continued as they loaded the bus. It sounds like a TV episode doesn't it? In fact there was a Friday Night Lights episode with the same situation. Sad but true. So much for spirit.
It's Spirit Week at the High School! Every day has a different dress-up theme. Yesterday was "Decade Day" dress as your favorite decade. Today is "Color Day" each class wears an assigned color. Wednesday is "Team Day" wear your favorite team shirt. ( Inga will wear a Team Edward shirt which is a character from her favorite book series, Twilight.) Thursday is Crazy Day which needs no explaining except to say nighties are forbidden. And Friday is Raider Day ( all of our sports teams are called Blue Raiders) and the Pep Rally. I didn't go to a normal American High School with sports teams so I have no way of knowing if this is all common practice. I do know we had a Japanese exchange student living with us one year who found the whole thing very very strange.
Speaking of school spirit here's a sad story from our local paper this morning. Yesterday our girl's soccer team had an away game. An adult spectator for the other team started yelling racial slurs at two of our fourteen year old soccer players. Other team members tried to defend the girls and told the man to shut up. The girls started to cry. He continued and the referees did nothing despite parent complaint. Our team walked off the field to jeering and catcalls which continued as they loaded the bus. It sounds like a TV episode doesn't it? In fact there was a Friday Night Lights episode with the same situation. Sad but true. So much for spirit.
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Alex and Samantha go to a private school and they are also having spirit week this week. Today for Alex was super hero day. He dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and said he was just an "ordinary joe". For Samantha it was Hawaiian day so she put a plastic lei around her neck wore a colorful shirt and sunglasses. To say the least they are not impressed by spirit week. And I agree Cindy, they should be working on the parents spirit when there can be an incident such as you mentioned. I think they need a "be yourself but respect others" day.
I wanted to make a comment on Karl's cycling trip, just to say I was impressed and I'm sure Carl (with a C) would find it interesting also, but I can't find a place to leave a comment. So maybe he will find it on Cindy's blog. That was quite a ride.
The New England Revolution played a match in Columbus, OH earlier this year after which a clip appeared on You Tube of the Columbus fans shouting racial slurs at some of the Revs players. For crying out loud, it's 2008, not 1958! Cindy's sad story along with mine only prove to me that as diverse as we'd like to think we are as a country, we are not even close!
Well, when ya have people who just don't see America the same way that we Joe and Jane Six Packs, and all the other great mavericks see and watch out for our great Constitution that our sons are fightin fer, and my son Trip also, and our daughters also would be fightin for if they weren't makin babies, God bless em... ya gotta call em on it! Also, and don't ya go thinkin that we are displayin prejudice here; ya just have ta call em as ya see em.
Did the girls walk off the field when the game was over or in protest? I can't believe that the coaches or the ref. didn't make them forfit the game. That is unsportsman like conduct. I'm just a hick from the sticks and I just can't believe that that was allowed to happen. Contrary to what Sarah Squirrel has to say, all hicks are not joe and jane six-pack. I think you should send the article to the ACLU.
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