I’ve got spirit, how about you?

One of the biggest problems that KIPP San Jose Collegiate faces is the lack of school spirit. Lack of school spirit is an issue when students or teachers plan things outside of school that depend on student participation and students don’t attend.

Students and teachers put a lot of effort into making outside events, like the Fall Festival, happen with the thought of the students in mind. When few students attend to these events, it makes the organizers hesitant about doing something similar in the future.

In order to get the school spirit up, students need to be more excited about school wide events. They also have to have the mind set to actually want to get involved in school activities.

English department head Elizabeth Barrett said, “Students are busy and tired but if we had more school spirit emended, it can be motivation to students.”

One way school spirit could be improved is, “do more with houses throughout the year so it won’t be just during House Olympics,” said Barret.

Having similar ideas, junior Emily Quach said, “Well, it’s [school spirit] not as exciting but, I think it has to do with the fact that everyone is quite busy now. Hopefully by the end of the year, school spirit will end up like how it did last year during House Olympics.”

Fellow junior Aaron Tang said, “It [school spirit] is not as exciting this year because we aren’t doing anything right now, but it will get better.”

Lack of school spirit make students feel like school is boring and unimportant. Honestly school spirit may be what KSJC needs to fix student attitude towards school related things.

Hopefully students will realize that school will be a lot more exciting and fun if students raise the school spirit.  Students are busy nowadays but need to get more pumped up or else school will be nothing but an obligation.

KSJC Values Clashing with Student Actions

  Which do people prefer more books or movies based on books?
  Some prefer reading because it allows them to fantasize about how the scenes from a story would look, while others prefer movies because it gives them a vivid picture of s the story’s scenes. To some students, books are just a jumble of words on multiple pieces of paper. To others, they are an escape to a magical realm that pulls them out of reality.
  But when books gets turned into movies, most of the time the movies don’t follow the plot or live up to the avid fans expectations. For example many students felt like the Twilight series and Harry Potter didn’t live up to their expectations.
  Others disagree because they feel that books are more detailed and give them a better grasp of what is going on. Mr.RockBone* stated, “I think books are better [than movies it is] more descriptive and more detailed to get into the character.”
  Accordingly, some movies help the readers gain a better understanding of what was happening in the book. For example, “The Great Gatsby” helped some understand some of the literary devices used in the story.
  Many students still prefer watching the movie version than reading the book because some students don’t like to read. Freshman Judie Apolinar said, “[I like] movies because I am too lazy to read.”
  Some students are in between on personal preference since they feel that people should read the book before the movie to see what the movie left out, missed, or added. Freshman Jasmine Jimenez said, “For movies you can actually see the scenes and people acting them out and books because they give more detail.”
  Even though some people prefer one over the other, in the end both are equally appreciated by different types of people.
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