Poll: Pep rallies

[SquidVicious]

They're very much ingrained in the American high school psyche so I can't help but foresee some kind of media shit storm if they were to just disappear, but I do think they're largely a waste of time. Not everyone cares about school sports and they do take time away from classes, but besides getting the student body excited, they're advertising. "Come to our game, support our team, buy a hotdog!" I haven't been in high school for 8 years so my opinion hardly matters, but I'd prefer to see them as voluntary. You can either go to them or go to the library to study, then go to your next class. Something like that seems to please both sides.

 

[doggy go 7]

I think that these things are a purely American phenomenon, as I've never had anything of the sort. That's not to say our school isn't full of itself, it's just British *so it would be awfully rude to do it in such a crass and explicit manner, sniff sniff* [posh old lady English voice initiated]

 

[DugMachine]

Only ever went to one of the mandatory pep rally's and it sucked. Hot and sweaty with a billion fucking girls screaming their heads off. Not pleasant.

Rest of the pep rallys my friends and I would just sneak out and smoke weed or something. We were bums -_-

 

[Spinozaad]

These things make me glad I was educated in the Netherlands, to be honest.

 

[ace_of_something]

My high school Had about 100 students at any given time. Total. So our pep rallies were basically "We're awesome!" Then an exhibition of the various clubs and athletes, like the science club would shows us something mechanical we'd all go 'wwoooo' then the football team would do a play on the field. Considering every single student had at least one thing to do during the pep rally, they were pretty fun. It was also a way to get people to sign up for said clubs and teams.
I might be biased though as I was on the football team, the baseball team, 4H, Science Olympiad, and Drama Club.

Mine is the only school I've ever heard of where they were mandatory. All my friends say when they were in high school they could go do study hall instead.

 

[L0dest0ne]

I go to a school with only about 600 kids and don't have a football team, and we still have these things. It makes no damn sense.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

They are super fucking cramped, we have over 1500 kids in our school, and I'm claustrophobic. They are fucking loud, they are pointless, and one time I skipped out on one and hid in the bathroom.
Watch out, I'm a badass over here.

You... you are a survivor.

I could never survive that, even in a clean bathroom. Also, they lock the bathrooms at my school.