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Sophomores had most difficult Spirit Week dress down days

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Emily Kerr, Staff Writer

October 31, 2023

Spirit Week is always a fun time for all grades, but did sophomores get the bad end of a deal?

The Spirit Week themes this year were fun and creative. The new “Holiday Day” was a fun new addition to the week, but sophomores struggled with their theme.

Because of the struggle, it seems like sophomores were put to the side.

The themes that caused the most problems for sophomores were “Holiday day” and “Age Day.” Sophomores got the hardest and least fun parts of the theme. For Holiday Day, we had to dress for New Year’s, and for Age Day, we had to dress as teenagers.

New Year’s was just too similar to Black and Gold Day, which came only two days after Holiday Day.

As students who love to dress up and show our creativity during these themes, sophomores found it hard to show our school spirit because of how similar both themes were.

Main colors for New Year’s Day are black, silver, and gold, and with two out of three of these colors being used on Black and Gold Day, it was hard to find unique and special things to wear.

Also, a lot of stores do not sell New Year’s things until December, so it was hard to find items in stores.

Holiday Day is an incredibly fun theme, and the rest of the grades praised it. To improve this theme in the coming years, we could choose a different holiday. Some holidays that would be fun to do that were not done this year are St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, and Thanksgiving.

Another theme that caused some issues within the sophomore class was Age Day. On this day, sophomores dressed as teenagers.

Even though this theme was easy to do, sophomores found it boring because of how simple it was. We are teenagers every day.

All of the other grades got to dress either younger or older than they are, which made it a fun and interesting theme. All sophomores had to do was put on what they normally wear outside of school.

This theme is also fun for the other grades. To make this more fun, we could choose a different age group, such as children ages 5-10, which can be differentiated from the freshmen dressing as babies.