This past week, our school hosted a spirit week for the upcoming Snowball dance. Which leads to the question, what goes into planning a spirit week, and why does MCHS seem to repeat similar days so often?

Most schools nationwide have spirit weeks that lead up to big events, like Homecoming, Prom and other celebratory things. The process of picking days is different for every school, for some schools one teacher just picks random themes and those are the days, but for MCHS the process requires a little more thought than that.

“A spirit week is brainstormed by an organization and then presented to administration,” Grace Hunt, student council president says, “Spirit weeks and days have to be approved to be implemented. Student council specifically spends time brainstorming and choosing spirit days to correlate with the upcoming event.”

While there are the technical ‘school rules’ reasons as to how and why spirit days are picked, there is also a more practical side to it.

“I think it goes to the more affordable options for kids that have already bought overalls and a yellow shirt, they can rewear those,” Student Council Advisor John Aubert says, “…Also kids at the freshmen campus don’t always get the opportunity to do those familiar spirit days, so if we repeat something from the previous year freshmen get the opportunity to participate in them.”

Another issue that comes with spirit days is MCHS’ lack of school spirit, and the struggle to get students to participate.

“In our publications we can do a better job at promoting spirit weeks,” Aubert says, “maybe we should have a PSA segment about what’s going on at the school and what students should be made aware of, and I think that social media presence about spirit weeks could be stronger.”

There are many factors to consider while preparing for a spirit week, and sometimes sticking to what’s known just has too many benefits to ignore.