Though spirit week is a time when the school is supposed to show a lot of enthusiasm and pride, this year's spirit week was much different than the norm. During field day on Thursday, the seniors experienced a hurftul thing that ruined our class pride for years to come. Almost every year, routinely, the senior class wins the bucket, because it is their last year. This year the rules were changed and made a little different. Ever since this class entered Groves High School as freshmen in 2005, the field day bucket competition was always rigged, meaning that it was pre-arranged for the senior class to win the bucket. This year the classes had to play fair and make every effort win the bucket for their class. This was the first time ever that the senior class did not win the bucket. Essentially our class will leave Groves never having won the bucket. The junior class will not have to worry about that.
As field day on Thursday came to an end, we as seniors were astonished to find out that we came in second place trailing behind the juniors by only ten points. Our class of roughly 300 students, many of whom broke into tears, tried to understand what hit us as the juniors retrieved the symbolic bucket indicating that they won field day. Field day is a very important day during spirit week for which the seniors always win. We threatened to plan a "senior skip day" that Friday to demonstrate how hurt we were. Ever since we were freshmen we were waiting to become seniors to claim our bucket prize, showing that we truly are the kings and queens of the school. We will never forget the hurt imposed on our class by not winning the bucket. The only consolation was that we at least won powderpuff football, and overall spirit week.
In conclusion, to some people a "bucket" is not a significant issue to cry over. However, the bucket is a symbol of sprit week to seniors. It is hard to explain what it means to the seniors, but it shows a tremendous symbol of pride. Everyone knows we won fair and square. Rumors have gone around that the juniors even stole some of our ideas in order to win extra points in some of the competitions that were played. When field day ended, we were not the only class that thought the judges made a mistake with their decision. Even the freshmen and sophmore classes thought the judges made a mistake. At least, on Friday, we replaced the hurt and returned to living in one "house," cheering on our football team to victory over Royal Oak High School and ending the spirit week of 2008 on a positive note. I personally think spirit week is a ludicrous activity and I hope schools will no longer force each class to compete with each other. School administrators will eventually discover that it does not bring spirit within each class. Instead, it brings anger and agony between classes!
P.S. I hope that homecoming will be a safe and hazard free environment. I know that the senior class will try to hold no grudges.
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