Pep Rallies Are Pointless

By Mitch Caudill

I don’t expect to be very popular for this opinion, but I’ll write it in hopes that somewhere out there in the school there are fellow non-supporters like me. Mainly, I find the idea of pep-rallies to be absurd. Acting crazy, shouting and screaming over something as uncontrollable and as unimportant as grade level strikes me as particularly illogical.

In fact, I did homework during parts of it. Furthermore, many of problems the administration cited with the pep rally come from the very fact we are divided into classes.

When you are asked to call up energy and support for something which has no controllable basis, to claim something is good, one instead must point out that something else is bad. I hardly doubt the administration would allow distinctions on controllable and truly important things. “Let’s go A students!”

Furthermore, if students could gather up even half the energy they put into preparing and acting at the pep rally, there is no doubt in my mind we could double our GPA and club activities.

I realize and agree that it’s nice to get a break from class every once in awhile, but why can’t we instead find spirit in things which do not divide us, and are productive. If not, I suggest at the next pep rally, we organize ourselves by height.