Wednesday, October 1, 2008
WHY
Why is it that a guest (for a dance) if graduated from highschool must have graduated from groves?This is the most frustrating thing in the world to me because as seniors, it is not uncommon to find students who have significant others a year or two older. Can soemone explain to me the logic behind this? Other than the slight chance that my guest may be a serial killer that got expelled from his or her highschool and are now coming to the groves commons (again, i could talk about that for days) to attack our school. Why?
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I mean obviously someone not from Groves is more likely to do anything frowned upon that someone who graduated from Groves. It all makes sense if you really look into it. Clearly Groves students should only date other Groves students. This way we can bread more Groves students and take over the world!!! Told you it all makes sense if you really look between the lines....
...Oh crap! Just read what I wrote, and it doesn't make sense. My bad, our school just have pointless rules they like to enforce in order to think they are doing something significant.
When I was a freshman, I asked a girl from Country Day to our homecoming. At first, I thought that the school wouldn't mind; I was wrong. Groves made me fill out a series of forms and get several signatures, including my dates' parents and school counselor. The process was tedious, time-consuming, and a waste of time.
Why does Groves go to such great lengths to make sure that out-of-school dates are "eligible"? Why do they require the parent and counselor signature of our date? First, they require a counselor signature to assure that our date is not prohibited from attending a dance by her own school. If the student was recently suspended and as part of her punishment was not allowed to go to Homecoming, then it wouldn't be fair to let her go to our Homecoming. A parent signature is required because a parent signature seems to be required for everything.
Although I understand Groves reasons for the forms we need to fill, I do not agree with the fact that Groves won't let you bring a graduate from a different school. Groves needs to realize that we are not looking to disrupt the flow of Homecoming. Realistically, students go to the dance for a short period of time and only want to make their appearance and mingle with friends for a bit. After, students leave and go to some after party.
Groves needs to refine its procedure for homecoming dates. Groves should loosen its rules for who can and can't come to Homecoming. Ultimately, they need to trust that we, good students, are not looking to ruin our schools homecoming.
The Groves administration lets students who have graduated from Groves return assuming that they will remember and follow the House Rules. The idea is that returning graduates will still feel some responsibility to the school. Students who did not graduate from Groves may feel that the House Rules are overbearing and reject them on the whole. Honestly, it should be based on how responsible the student themselves is, not which school they graduated from. Alas, this policy isn’t a viable option because who is to say what makes someone responsible enough to attend. On the other hand, since parents do have to sign the Guest Form, the school could hold the parents responsible for their son/daughter’s actions. This added pressure helps keep any guest in line. If that is all that is needed for a high school student from a different school, why is that not enough for a college student?
I know plenty of Groves’ graduates who would terrorize Homecoming if they could find someone who would take them. I also know numerous people who would treat the school with more respect than the freshmen last year did, but are not being allowed to attend because of the Groves graduate rule. The graduate rule is understandable, but it does frustrate many people, myself included.
Being a senior, it is not uncommon to be dating someone who is in college and who graduated from a high school other than Groves in the last two years. A lot of seniors who have discovered the graduate rule are simply not attending their senior Homecoming. Instead, people are throwing anti-Homecoming parties. There is no doubt that many seniors will indeed skip out on Homecoming this year.
I agree with bklounge- the forms are tedious and a waste.
amen.
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