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Pep Rallies/Spirit Assemblies
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PlagueMeister
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What's the point?
At my school we have an abundance of sports teams, so every month, basically, we have a spirit assembly to get everyone cheering for teams that haven't even won a game in years.
If school is so damn important, then why are they wasting our precious "learning time" huddling all of the students in a cramped gymnasium so we can shout and holler at a prancing wolf trying to throw a basketball into a hoop? I never understand the point of getting student "pepped up" for something they don't even care about in the first place, there is no reason to make attendance mandatory to something that only induces headaches and brain aneurysms!
So if anyone can tell me what the reason is for all of that nonsense, I won't leave school with a stomachache right before a rally so I can rant about it online.
"The more you know, the more you know you don't know." ~Socrates
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Heil_Kaiba8921
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...every time i read a post about something one of you guys hates about school, the more i realize mine is a pretty good skool.
We have pep sessions once every semester(or 9 weeks, i'm not sure anymore but we just had one a few weeks ago)and if you don't want to go to the gym and sit on the floor or painful bleachers you can go to the lunch room and pretend you're in a study hall until the last 5 minutes when we're allowed to talk, oooooh 5 miunutes out of 30 to talk...that's only how it is with bitches for supervisor...because even though there are like 6 teachers in there, only 1 gets to have power and it's usually the worst one
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Thanks for the diploma… can I have my childhood back?
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Ky
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Just had one today. Everyone cheered as though they were about to escape from a mental hospital when the win-less football team came out.
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Night
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RE: Pep Rallies/Spirit Assemblies
I kind of liked pep rallies because I didn't have to go to class and i could see my friends. And its only really for the football team because.. we're very proud of our football team here for some reason. I don't care
I'm a girl ffffeck
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Heil_Kaiba8921
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(09-15-2012 08:09 AM)night.artist Wrote: I kind of liked pep rallies because I didn't have to go to class and i could see my friends. And its only really for the football team because.. we're very proud of our football team here for some reason. I don't care
i couldn't talk to my friends bc it was too loud, and ours was for all our teams, even the ones i didn't know we had...like a dance team
The less you try to control things, the less you need to.
Boredom is the #1 enemy of learning. Therefore, school is the #1 enemy of learning.
"Bodies fucking fuck."~Night.Artist
"free speech under the constitution only guarantees the government won't stop him saying it and does not guarantee his right to say things and have no consequences at all as a result. also i completely doubt that he is motivated solely by "i'm saying it because i can" and is probably motivated by a more shitheady motive like "i think it's funny to annoy people and Rustle Le Jimmies™ and is just hiding behind the first amendment to try to deflect any consequences or make you realize that being allowed to annoy people is a superior moral right. you can still disdain someone for doing things for dumbarse wankery purposes and you have evne more right to ban and insult them for it" ~Trar's friend about Potato.
Thanks for the diploma… can I have my childhood back?
I’d love to have a battle of wits with you… but I hate to fight the unarmed.
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Night
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Lol, I used to be on the dance team... I guess we have it for the basketball team or whatever.. It's just our football team wins a lot, i guess.
I'm a girl ffffeck
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IamNoone
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The point is to get kids energized so the teachers can shove more shit into their heads at a faster pace.
The purpose of life is a life with a purpose
So I’d rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless
I don’t need the circus or the day of national observance
I need you to think for you and stop being a servant
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(09-15-2012 08:39 AM)IamNoone Wrote: The point is to get kids energized so the teachers can shove more shit into their heads at a faster pace.
when do you have your rallies? Ours are always at the end of the day, and we go to our homeroom...rooms for a few minutes before they start dismissing us to go down
The less you try to control things, the less you need to.
Boredom is the #1 enemy of learning. Therefore, school is the #1 enemy of learning.
"Bodies fucking fuck."~Night.Artist
"free speech under the constitution only guarantees the government won't stop him saying it and does not guarantee his right to say things and have no consequences at all as a result. also i completely doubt that he is motivated solely by "i'm saying it because i can" and is probably motivated by a more shitheady motive like "i think it's funny to annoy people and Rustle Le Jimmies™ and is just hiding behind the first amendment to try to deflect any consequences or make you realize that being allowed to annoy people is a superior moral right. you can still disdain someone for doing things for dumbarse wankery purposes and you have evne more right to ban and insult them for it" ~Trar's friend about Potato.
Thanks for the diploma… can I have my childhood back?
I’d love to have a battle of wits with you… but I hate to fight the unarmed.
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SomeRandomHuman
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Pep rallies are retarded. None of out teams have won for years, but somehow when they come out, all the dumbasses cheer their heads off!! The sad thing is, everybody on the teams always brag about being on them, even though they havent won for years!
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(09-15-2012 11:37 AM)Heil_Kaiba8921 Wrote: (09-15-2012 08:39 AM)IamNoone Wrote: The point is to get kids energized so the teachers can shove more shit into their heads at a faster pace.
when do you have your rallies? Ours are always at the end of the day, and we go to our homeroom...rooms for a few minutes before they start dismissing us to go down
My school didn't have any 
The purpose of life is a life with a purpose
So I’d rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless
I don’t need the circus or the day of national observance
I need you to think for you and stop being a servant
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My school had SPA(students of the performing arts) instead of a pep rally. They were either the first or last Friday of the month, and in it we heard announcements and students of the month for each of the arts. Then, we'd either have a guest speaker, college performance, a glimpse of some performance from our school, or we'd play/ watch some drama games.
I don't know if it was a rule that we had to go, but some of the teachers let students chill in the classrooms and do whatever, or we could just go in the library (I think).
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