It can be disappointing to go to a school where the student body has about as much spirit as a PE class getting ready to swim in December. Sometimes, I wish that a few people would dress up for spirit days, or maybe even cheer at the rallies.
As a freshman, I used to think that it was my job as a student to make my school spirited. I thought that if I wanted Aragon to be spirited, I would have to be spirited first. But now I see how ridiculous that is. It’s not the students’ job to make Aragon spirited: it’s Leadership’s.
Leadership may seem like a group of hapless student volunteers who work tirelessly to make Aragon a better place, and continually take grief for their effort. But in reality, Leadership students are the reason Aragon never gets excited about anything.
Rallies would be so much better if Leadership just worked a little harder. As of now, they don’t even tell us when to cheer. How am I supposed to know that I should clap for the cheerleading squad if no one holds up a “Cheer Now” sign? I mean, a Leadership student might as well have the decency lean over and tell me to cheer when the dance team gets up to do a routine they’ve been practicing for months.
It’s obvious to me now. The reason the rallies resemble an AP Bio class at a seven a.m. isn’t because Aragon students have a seemingly psychopathic inability to stand up and cheer for our classmates; it’s because the Leadership class never taught us how to clap.
It’s the same problem with spirit days. I don’t know how the Leadership class expects me to get dressed for “Wear a Hat Day” without entirely changing my morning routine. If Leadership is going to ask that much of me, they should at least send a student to help me get dressed in the morning.
When it comes down to it, it’s not just Leadership’s job to make the school spirited; it’s their job to make me spirited.
