Most everyone remebers spirit week/homecoming week/homegoing week.

One thing I thought was common nationwide was that every year of high school had their own color. Like the way it works in South Florida is right now the freshmen(class of 2014) are yellow, the sophomores (Class of 2013) are green, the juniors (class of 2012) are red, and the seniors (class of 2011) are blue. And they carry the colors with them through out their high school years until they graduate and the color goes on to the upcoming freshman and so on and so forth. I was talking to my friend in Texas and she didn't know what the heck I was talking about, and I was shocked. I think everyone should have class colors it makes for a lot of fun. During homecoming and homegoing week there is one day to wear your class color and it makes for a lot of rivalry between classes and it's all in good fun. And people tag people (it's wear you get paint or something that's the color of your class and mark a lower class man, personally I don't care if you're an upperclass man, I'll still tag you.) And we do dress up days, two days stay constant in every spirit week, class color day (also day of pep rally where classes compete against each other) and school color day is last, wear the whole school wears the school colors. My school is very old and a lot of traditions have come and gone, we're hoping to bring some of them back, like some kind of float parade they used to do.

I'm interested, what does/did your school do during spirit weeks, did you even have them (depravation)?

I have no idea what any of those mean, so I'm gonna assume we didn't have it. At my school we had "muck-up day", which was basically the last day for the graduating year, and they'd always pull some kind of pranks... until the school banned it from my year onwards. So we didn't get to do anything. I think some of the douchebag guys did something early in the morning (like 7am) but it wasn't anything major. I think all they did was park in the teacher's carpark...

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Anyway, they always do something like that here, this year they decided to cover the stair cases in papers so people could slip and fall, and my teacher, being the good hearted person she is, volunteered my class to clean it up; just how I wanted to spend the last day of school.

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My high school is an old structure, divided by Buildings A, B, and C, that goes back during the World War I. Together with its rich history and well known alumni, we also have some wacky traditions. Like taping a teacher on a wall. Or having pep rallies with school color competition. We have games, dance rallies, and so on. The ASB people and the council members have to get up at 5:00am to set up to design our main gym, hallways, etc. The Class of 2011 wore yellow, while the incoming seniors of Class of 2012 (my group) is wearing red. Seniors always and inevitably win every competitions though - maybe that's a tradition? XD

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Oh yeah, my school had a spirit week. Not that I made any effort to partake lol usually the student council would choose a theme for each day of the week, like Monday would be Harry Potter Day, Tuesday would be Fake an Injury Day, Wednesday would be Neon Day, etc., and Friday would always be wear school colors day. Personally I just forgot to, and our schools apparel is pretty expensive so I never really took part unless I remembered last minute I had a neon pink shirt or drew a hasty lightening bolt on my forehead right before school started.

Dang that sounds exactly like my school rofl and that sounds exactly like what I did


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at my school we had dress up days to show school spirit and we also had a hallway decorating competition that went along with the theme of homecoming, which my class won each year. we were so happy when we stole the win from the seniors as freshmen ^_^ and we'd go all out on the hallways too. Our junior year, we hung a chinese dragon that our class pres had made from the ceiling of the hallway.

I live in North Florida, and my school has the color things as well. For Spirit Week we have dress up days such as Wear Pajamas Day, Twin day, and so on. Nothing overly special or exciting.

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Unfortunately, I live in the higher class area of San Diego, so my school was composed of rich kids who viewed high school tradition of just going out drinking and having sex. Trust me, the overall experience was very stupid.

I had more fun with my nerd/uncool friends than I did with the "preps and jocks."

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I totally get what you're saying, in my school seniors ALWAYS win the competitions, it's ridiculous!!! Except for this one time when seniors were protesting the principal and they stayed completely quiet (they were protesting because the principal told someone he couldn't walk(graduation) because he laughed at him) and that time the juniors won it. But the principal gave them an apology in an assembly.

Fake An Injury Day, lol, we need to try that.