This year for powderpuff, adults decided that each grade making their own class shirt was too expensive so they made shirts with the same design with different neon colors and your grade on the back. This caused lots of controversy with the students. Most of the student body was incredibly disappointed, especially the seniors.
Senior voice Rebecca DeVries says,”I like the shirts because they show our personality and our school spirit. … I like how they are different from everyone else.” DeVries adds, “It’s a pretty big part (of Homecoming). Spirit night in my mind is Homecoming queen and king and powderpuff and the shirts.”
Comparatively the junior grade was also disappointed. The juniors boycotted the shirts and used the ones they had from last year. They found a fun way to decorate these shirts to make them relevant to this year.
As for the pricing issue, I think there are ways we can earn money. I don’t think we should take away traditions and amusement for a price issue. The students are understandable, but I think the student body would be willing to earn money for class shirts.
Continuing with ideas, the grades could compete in a fundraiser battle to earn the shirts. That would add to the competition and help the students to get more involved in helping the community.
My other main idea is reaching out to student clubs such as student government or key clubs to help raise money for the shirts.
In addition, as a Freshman student, I would like to say I am disappointed too. I know a lot of the freshman grade was also upset from the news. Our grade looked up to the upperclassmen and were excited to be able to partake in the upperclassmen traditions.
Overall the student body wants the shirts to come back. As the adult audience may not understand, the shirts played a big role in homecoming. I think there are ways to solve this issue if we try. As a mostly student ran school this is something that the people want changed; this will help peoples voices to be heard. So should we really choose price over experience, traditions, and memories? The overall student body answer is no.
