Over the past 36 years the rivalry between the upper school grades during spirit week has been nothing short of dramatic, but there seems to be something different about the rivalry this year. Specifically, a greater spotlight of hatred has been put on the seniors.
“Everyone wants to beat the top dogs but our grade wants it even more this year so we can keep their losing streak going, at least in poms and lip sync” says junior Kamia Clevelend.
The seniors have lost boys poms to the juniors for three years straight and have lost to lip sync for two years in a row.
Junior Kate Sowers thinks that the seniors are “rowdy and annoying and prone to cause trouble”.
She isn’t too far off on the prone-to-cause trouble angle. From a slip-and-slide in the freshman hallway to getting disqualified from boys’ poms for illegal flips, the class of 2025 has had their share of frivolous pranks. But why would this cause such discourse from the juniors?
“I feel like they’re going to take away the senior prank by vandalizing the school so badly that they won’t let future classes do the pranks” says Sowers.
So the juniors seem to be concerned that the seniors causing havoc is going to stop them from doing the same, and it seems the sophomores have a similar fear.
“They do all these pranks and fun little things and now no one else can do it” states sophomore Schuyler Antony.
Now the seniors seem to believe that this hatred is unwarranted and far too extreme.
“All of our grade and mainly the girls in the senior class have to suffer the consequences of the boys’ bad actions from freshman year. We’re seniors, that was three years ago, and it seems like teachers and students still hold these little pranks against us” explains Senior Myah DeRossett.
Furthermore, the rivalry has grown due to the other grades believing they have a very good chance of beating the seniors in poms and lip sync.
“The juniors and underclassmen immediately assume we’re going to suck at lip-sync and poms and berate us about how bad we are and how we’re going to lose to the juniors and even possibly the sophomores” states Derossett.
As this rivalry continues to grow and the classes dislike for the seniors brews stronger, the senior class only becomes closer and more tightly knit.
