The Banned Class

When I was notified that the sophomore class had been disqualified from Homecoming due to rude behavior, I felt ashamed. I felt ashamed that the actions of a select few could mess it up so badly for our class.

I’m not just disappointed that we were disqualified; I’m also disappointed that the effort put into our quad day by so many was undermined by a minuscule fraction of our class. What happened to good old Homecoming? I remember watching the senior class of 2010’s Up-themed quad day videos on YouTube and thinking to myself, that would be tight if our quad day was like that.
Many of us made decorations, set up and worked hard to put together dances that the school would enjoy watching. I know for a fact that people loved our monkey dance, and Rohan Jhalani and Tony Capek’s “evolution of dance.”
The script obviously didn’t turn out the way the script writers wanted it to. Even they were confused on what was going on, seeing as many jokes were added last minute during the night rehearsal on the eve of sophomore quad day. I doubt they set out with the purpose to be mean to people though. But, I don’t think our class’ reputation should be determined by a few people.
Homecoming is supposed to bring everyone together, not cause drama and hate. One would think the class of 2014 failed to realize this based on the script that was written. Not only did some writers hate on other grades, but also on our own. How can we have a successful quad day when there isn’t even harmony in our own class?
The apologies have been made and the hurt feelings have been somewhat mended, but the nasty jokes showed our class’ dilemma. We have a deep schism between the groups of our class. One group made a script; one group made another. A debate of which should be chosen emerged and the script writers worked together to form one.
Sure, the script writers worked together, but not in the best way. It was more of a forced collaboration in which each group pushed and pushed for their jokes to be put in. I know that our class has a division between groups and that is the problem that needs to be addressed.
Should we look to the past and say we should have done this or we should not have done that? No, what we need to do now is step out of the ditch and work as a class, not as individual groups. We need cooperation and unity within our class to thrive. That will help us succeed in the future.
There is no denying the fact that the disqualification was more than fair for the “jokes” that were made. Now that the class of 2014 is at an all time low, the only way we can go is up. Next year, I hope this problem won’t happen again. No one will jeopardize or threaten our class’ reputation just to improve their own standings and popularity any longer.
Everyone, by now, should know the exact details of what happened (or at least heard rumors about it) so there is no reason for the same mistakes to be made for Homecoming of 2012. From now on, we should make no more blunders. We need to set an example for lower grades in the upcoming years, and focus on working together as one class of 2014.