| Administration rocks pep assembly | | Print | |
| Written by Luke Severn Jesus Shuttlesworth | |
| Wednesday, 01 April 2009 | |
What was special about this assembly is that it wasn’t mainly student run, but rather the schools administration decided to take the reigns and go through with the assembly, which focused on spring sports. “We really focused on getting the 37 students that showed up really involved in the assembly and that really helped boost the energy of the place,” said administration leader Hans Gruber. Gruber, who sees the administration as a sort of cult that brain washes students into believing afternoon pep assemblies are fun, thinks that the afternoon scheduling change is “really working out really well” and that attendance is “really high.” The recent pep assembly marks the first time that an administration has been the arbiters of a major pep assembly, and students felt that it was a movement in a positive direction. It was the first assembly for Freshman Bill Bigsby who explained that it was “so good” and that “students were walking out, obviously overcome with school spirit.” “I can see now why they took over,” said an anonymous student “The assembly was very straightforward, dull, and had very few people there, which is exactly what they were striving for when they made the assemblies after school. They weren’t horsing around.” After the success of the administration-run afternoon pep assembly, the Grant school board has decided to put the administration fully in charge of pep assemblies and take a new rout in order to attract even more students while still keeping those instructional minutes in tact. “We decided as a board, after much deliberation while considering the success of our students here at Grant High School, that we would no longer be holding pep assemblies in the afternoon, but rather, affective immediately, mandatory pep assemblies will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday mornings from now on,” Grant principal Joseph Malone said. What Malone has explained, is that attendance to the assemblies is expected and mandatory for all students. When asked what would happen if students decided to skip the assemblies Malone said “they don’t want to find out what disciplinary action will be taken against them.” The sudden change to scheduling is due to the fact that the turnout of students at the last pep assembly held in early December was slightly lower than the school board expected. “We had about 36 people show up to the last assembly, which was a bit lower than we had hoped for, but the school board and I believe this alteration in scheduling will not only benefit the students educational instruction, but will make the assemblies jam-packed with students and fun reviving the school spirit we have had at past pep assemblies,” vice principal Brian Chatard explained. Currently, the Grant Executive Counsel has been surrounded by controversy and drama similar to a reality TV show. Rumors began to spread this week that many members of the counsel would be impeached because of failure to cooperate during the assembly. According to an inside source, this rumor is false, but in reality, executive counsel has been operating behind closed doors in an attempt to impeach the school administration. If successful, executive counsel would take over all operations of the administration which essentially include planning pep assemblies on extremely short notice and regulating school dances. Other students weren’t concerned about the shift in schedule, but rather what happened at the future assemblies. “Last pep assembly, I got hit the face with a dodge ball, and the assembly before that I forgot to wear my toga, so I’m not having a good year with this stuff,” said a disgruntled student. Many teachers aren’t supportive of the administrations decision. Social studiesteacher Kevin Alvord believes that pep assemblies should take place “during school days” and that making assemblies mandatory will be more difficult than “students taking my classes seriously.” Many teachers and coaches were unable to attend the most recent assembly due to fact that they had no students to take to the actual assembly. When asked about the possibility that the administration could be impeached by executive counsel, English teacher Jamie Zartler feels that the counsel is displaying “great leadership.” Principal Malone expects there to be a high turnout of students at the next pep assembly, which will be celebrating summer sports. The assembly with be held on Saturday. |
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