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Community => Recreation Commons => Topic started by: Unorthodox on May 04, 2016, 01:26:18 PM

Title: Do you have school spirit?
Post by: Unorthodox on May 04, 2016, 01:26:18 PM

Kyle's choir concert last night at the high school.

All the alumni are supposed to stand and join hands for the shool hymn at the end. 

Bah Humbug.  I didn't sing then, what makes you think I will NOW?  (had I not met hEt senior year, who liked the crap, there's a decent chance I would have never even been to an assembly in high school)


Got me thinking, I know I'd heard it mentioned by foreigners how odd the US preoccupation for college sports and whatnot is, so poll. 

Title: Re: Do you have school spirit?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 04, 2016, 01:43:35 PM

There no [fuddle-duddle] NO! option...

Title: Re: Do you have school spirit?
Post by: Valka on May 05, 2016, 03:11:14 AM

School loyalty? Sure. I liked my high school. Junior high was a mixed bag of really good teachers, a couple of awful teachers, one reprehensible teacher that gave off creepy vibes and 40 years later I found out that he'd been raping one of my classmates for those 3 years, and a lot of people I never want to see again in my life.

I don't get this whole school-worship thing. Honestly, a school hymn? That's one of the most bizarre things I've heard this week, and about schools in general, any time.

Title: Re: Do you have school spirit?
Post by: Unorthodox on May 05, 2016, 03:16:03 AM

Pretty sure elementary and middle schools both had a school song...Are school songs not normal?

as far as the 'hymn' instead of 'song', probably a Utah thing.  Mom was there when it was written, I could ask. 

Title: Re: Do you have school spirit?
Post by: Lorizael on May 05, 2016, 03:35:46 AM

My high school was pretty decent at one of the sports... football... iirc. I tried as much as possible to never be around when school spirit stuff was happening, which was doable because I knew how to get from my school to the woods behind it without being seen. I did attend one game, however, because Darrell Green and Champ Bailey (when both were still Redskins) once attended for some sort of fan thing. But on the whole, while I loved learning even then, school was mostly unpleasant from elementary on up due to me not having much in the way of friends and, later on, motivation to work.

Title: Re: Do you have school spirit?
Post by: Lord Avalon on May 06, 2016, 12:03:39 AM

High school, no, university, yes. I follow my school's (American) football, basketball & hockey teams. I follow a blog mostly about those sports, occasionally reading posts about our other sports that do well.

I wonder if it has to do with being into sports, which I suspect some of my generation who are into computer games aren't. (Back in the day there was more of a dichotomy; now with consoles and phones, everyone can be a nerd. Ha!) Also in America there aren't really minor leagues for football & basketball like there are for baseball & hockey, so college sports fill that gap.

Title: Re: Do you have school spirit?
Post by: Rusty Edge on May 06, 2016, 01:17:21 AM

I was voted most school spirit of my class, so yeah, I got it, or had it.

When I got into my 50s and was living in a different state, I had a growing urge to avoid revisiting the past, even when I'm visiting my parents. On the whole I like my memories, and like to remember everyone as young and vibrant as they were, the same with the insides of the buildings. This isn't just how I feel about my school, but my home town too. I drive through, I seldom stop. Now if I run into somebody, that's another matter.

As it is, my social circle is now pretty much, wife family, and a few weirdos like me on the internet.