Written By: Daniel Holsher, Staff Writer
COMMUNITY: Poly’s spirit days unite students on Poly’s campus.
Poly’s spirit weeks are a staple of the sense of community we have here at Poly High School. Spirit weeks are centered around our main sports, such as basketball and football, and also come into play during prominent holidays of the year. The middle and end of each semester tend to have a lack of spirit days, which in turn leads to a sort of limbo of engagement and non-engagement. This begs the question, should our spirit days be set as more unique and interesting? And how often should they occur? We asked a set of students and staff their opinions on the dilemma.
“I think spirit weeks should try to do more silly and different things instead of being mostly for holidays” Aubrey Cochran (10).
“It would be cool if spirit weeks could be for certain trends going around, or try to make it relate to the present day and world around us” Isabella Fernandez (10).
Staff member Mr. Cordes says that spirit days are all “fun and engaging for the students and teachers” but visualizes a better way to present them through “dress up days for semester finals and unique days aimed towards teacher material.”
“I think spirit days should be more simple some weeks because it’s hard to find something to wear for the theme. But I also think some weeks should be more complicated because there are a lot of people who go all out,” Beckett Sullivan (11).
“I don’t see much wrong with the system so far, I love being able to go to work in something fun, and I love seeing what the students come up with,” stated Señora Soliman (Poly Spanish Teacher).
It looks as if the consensus on spirit days is split. Some students and teachers love how the spirit days are planned out, and look forward to the holidays to participate in them. Others tend to hope for more engagement and variation in our spirit days. Either way, spirit days do bring a fresh new spirit to our campus, and it would be great to have even more participation in the future.