The Battle of Brashier
Lelia Rill
December 16, 2009
Filed under News
A group of junior and senior girls gather around a desk in College Seminar. They are talking about the school, college, class rings, and, most importantly to the seniors, graduation. They are discussing how the senior class is divided on where the ceremony should be held. The whole group agrees that it seems that most of the transfer students want the graduation off campus, whereas most original seniors want it in the Brashier gymnasium. Senior Aurelle McCain says, “For the original seniors, it’s all about the meaning of it, the sentiment. To the other students it’s just about the big graduation.”
It seems that at Brashier, it’s a battle for who has the most school spirit: the transfer students or the original students. Senior Hannah Kelley, who is an original student of Brashier says, “The original students are kind of like a big dysfunctional family. Transfers sometimes don’t get it.
Both classes seem to have a lot of school spirit. The juniors and seniors battled it out for the spirit stick at the last pep rally and every student was participating, transfers and all. So what is it that divides the students so much? Is it really a question of school spirit?
Junior Jackson Bray, who transferred here last year from Eastside High says, “I have pride in my school, but it is hard when many others lack school spirit.”
However, Conner Beverly, a homeschooler who transferred in this year says, “I don’t go to Brashier events often, and I’m not involved in any extracurricular activities.”
So is it really a question of transfers and originals or is it just the individual student? Junior Jordan Greskamp, who is an original Brashier student says, “Original and transfer students are the same, I go to Brashier events all the time, and I stand up for my school.”
Many students love Brashier because of its small atmosphere and sense of community. Bray says, “I feel comfortable in the smaller atmosphere.” Where as Greskamp says, “I don’t like school in general, but I’d rather be here than [in] other schools in the area.”
Keep in mind that Bray is a transfer student and Greskamp is an original. Two similar opinions, two different sides.
Though there are many great things here at Brashier, both sides have things that they don’t like. Beverly says, “I don’t like that the day changes throughout the week.” Greskamp says, “I don’t like the sub sandwiches on Thursdays.”
Though they feel this way Beverly says, “I love this school. I hate it when I see people mistreat it.”
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I love this story Lelia.
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I believe that the location of the seniors graduation should be determind with a whip cream pie fight to the death.
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