“Five, four, three, two, one! We’ve got spirit, you’ve got none!” are the shouts of Konawaena high school students. It’s spirit week and many students are excited, but is spirit really all that important. While it makes school enjoyable, spirit week does not contribute to any sort of academics and distracts students from learning. This article will discuss how even though spirit week has some upsides to it, it really isn’t important.
First of all, the biggest problem with spirit week is that it distracts students from learning. There are three ways spirit week distracts students from learning. One way this is done is through planning. For spirit week, students are encouraged to dress-up everyday in coordination with the theme of the day. …show more content…
For example, on the first day of spirit week, the school had break dancers perform for the school, on the third day, instead of working in advisory, students were sent to the field to watch the women’s flag football game, and on the last day of spirit week, all classes will be cut short to provide time for an assembly. These events are not only non-academic, they actually take away from educational time. Additionally, if spirit week is to promote pride in the school, shouldn’t the themes be tied to the school in one way or another. The themes for this year’s spirit week, with the exception of, “Everyone in Green,” day, have absolutely nothing to do with this school, meaning that spirit week was just to create competition as well as controlled chaos. What is the point of coming to school in pajamas? This only further proves that spirit week is not important. If spirit week were important, wouldn’t the themes be more along the lines of, “Wear your future college colors,” or, “Wear what you want to be when you graduate.” These themes would make spirit week seem less pointless, that this school promotes its students to think and prepare for the future. While there are reasons to support that spirit week is not important, there are also reasons to support that spirit week is important. One of these reasons will be voiced in the next
First of all, the biggest problem with spirit week is that it distracts students from learning. There are three ways spirit week distracts students from learning. One way this is done is through planning. For spirit week, students are encouraged to dress-up everyday in coordination with the theme of the day. …show more content…
For example, on the first day of spirit week, the school had break dancers perform for the school, on the third day, instead of working in advisory, students were sent to the field to watch the women’s flag football game, and on the last day of spirit week, all classes will be cut short to provide time for an assembly. These events are not only non-academic, they actually take away from educational time. Additionally, if spirit week is to promote pride in the school, shouldn’t the themes be tied to the school in one way or another. The themes for this year’s spirit week, with the exception of, “Everyone in Green,” day, have absolutely nothing to do with this school, meaning that spirit week was just to create competition as well as controlled chaos. What is the point of coming to school in pajamas? This only further proves that spirit week is not important. If spirit week were important, wouldn’t the themes be more along the lines of, “Wear your future college colors,” or, “Wear what you want to be when you graduate.” These themes would make spirit week seem less pointless, that this school promotes its students to think and prepare for the future. While there are reasons to support that spirit week is not important, there are also reasons to support that spirit week is important. One of these reasons will be voiced in the next