I remember one year at school I had someone asking me why I didn't have any school spirit, I asked them why they did. They told me "I just want to show everyone that I love my school". I spat in sheer disgust. Who the hell would want to love our school, let alone make sure everyone around knows that they love it? Our school is a piece of shit. It was built back in the 60's, smells more rank than anything you can imagine, has the stupidest attendance policies, and it has the worst teachers. The paint is peeling, the ceiling is falling down (everyday is spent just making sure you aren't crushed by the tiles falling from the ceiling, like it matters anyways considering they're made out of cardboard), and the heater breaks down so often they have to keep the rats in the walls for insulation. Our school is packed full of dipshit morons who try to compensate for the lack of anything good about our school by having an overabundance of spirit towards anything school related and making up the most stupid ideas for spirit days. In general, our school and the majority of the people in it suck.

As if school spirit wasn't the lamest thing about our school, our school colors are, surprise surprise, red and white. Red and white eh? I wonder what other thing has the colors of red and white.

The only thing that our school really has to be proud of is our school's winning records in sports (or just the wins that they state in the announcements, where they never mention that our team loses). School sports. I fucking hate sports. I have no use for sports. sports are just as big a waste of time, if not more, as school spirit is. People always making a big deal out of our hockey team, our rugby team (at least we don't have a football team, by far the worst sport in existence), jesus christ, they even make a big deal over our volleyball team. Where football is the worst sport in existance (because they overglamorize it in every teen movie), volleyball is by far the most useless. Volleyball isn't a sport. It's an activity that only hot chicks on the beach in skimpy bathing suits should play. Other than that it's a waste of time. I was sitting in the cafateria once (Not because I wanted to, I had a spare class and I had to be in there), and I overheard the coach of our school's female volleyball team talking to the players during one of their meetings. According to the coach (who i might add is the hairiest human being on the planet, so damn hairy it's sickening), the volleyball team gets TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for them to use for organizing home games, renting buses and hotel rooms for away games, equipment, etc. Ten thousand fucking dollars, I am not kidding. I doubt our teachers even get paid that much (If they were getting paid anymore I bet they'd be a little better at their job, too many kids are leaving our schools stupid). Part of this money comes from the $50 student fee that every student has to pay at the beginning of the year, regardless of their participating in any school activities (It's not like we have a small school either, we have at least 1000 students). It pisses me off to no end. Just imagine if every school team we have had ten thousand dollars. It's such a waste of money. That money could be used to hire better teachers, or maybe even add a few more computer courses into the curriculum. Let's face it, students are going into the working world, where 99% of the jobs will require someone with a basic knowledge of computers. If we had more computer courses we could learn all we needed to know before we graduated so we could do better in our computer courses at college or university. But no, they decide to piss away millions of dollars so a bunch of snot nosed little bastards who can actually afford the equipment and extra fee needed to actually join the sports team can spend the night in a fancy hotel room, buy pizza, play one game of hockey, and come back to be awarded their fame and glory for smacking a piece of rubber around with a stick. Such a waste. Why do people even get as excited as they do over a hockey game/volleyball game/whatever that's being played in another town? Why do people get overly excited over our games anyways? We have most pathetic pep ralleys around. In my whole time at highschool I had to go to two pep ralleys ,which was two pep ralleys more than I would've liked to go to. We don't even have cheerleaders. All we have is our ugly dog faced principal standing up there explaining some irrelevant shit that has no meaning on my life whatsoever. What do these pep ralleys really do for us? Help us all forget we're going to die someday? What use are sports in school anyways? Fun? Entertainment? Bullshit. It's so that any moron who decides to play on a sports team can put it on their record that they were captain of a team that isn't worth shit, so that colleges can give them scholarships even though they have shitty marks in all of their classes. Wow, apparently they can tackle someone into the ground and throw a ball around. That makes them good enough to go into college for free, while the rest of us who are actually trying have to pay an arm and a leg, their first born child, and a pint of virgin blood just so we can be accepted into the college we apply for. Schools sports suck, as well as the teams. Throw that shit away and put the money into something useful.

I still can't forget those dumbass assemblies they show at the beginning of the school year that's put on by the student council...you know...those idiots who are stupid enough to come in five days prior to the actual first day of school, so they can organize what they'll do at the assembly, put together the corniest piece of shit excuse for a movie about "getting involved", and god only knows and cares about what else. Who the fuck honestly gives a shit about these retarded school spirit assemblies anyways? They're a waste of time. The movies they present usually show people doing our annual walkathon (another stupid idea thought up of by the facility so that they can get more money that they can waste by dumping it into sports), at our dances, at sports games, and are usually accompanied by a shitty song by a shitty band that only a deaf person could ever like (like this years rendition of boom boom boom by the venga boys). At these assemblies the student body president usually displays WAY too much excitement while they're talking to the students about what will be going on for the school year it's enough to make you sick. Some stupid bullshit about "making this year fun" and "getting involved". What a crock of shit. Who wants to get involved? It's a waste of time. I'm just at school in order to graduate so I can get a decent job later on down the road. Why the hell should employers care if you were on the dance committee at your highschool? Why should your position as class president be important while you're being interviewed for a job? I'll be damned if I know, but I doubt they have any real relevance to real world. And another thing that majorly pisses me off is something that one of the faculty members said to us every single year since the day I was going here. She would say "Don't steal from the pop machines because you're not really stealing from us, you're stealing from yourselves". What she means by this is that the money used to buy the pop machines doesn't come from the money of the school, the money they use comes out of the $50 student fee that we have to pay. The reason she says this is to make sure no one gets any the wiser about the truth. Thank god I figured it out. If the money for the pop machine comes out of OUR pockets, don't you think that maybe that means the pop belongs to US? So by stealing it we're actually taking something that we rightfully paid for. How can someone steal from themselves? I don't participate in dances, I'm not on any school team, or group, or anything, yet I still have to pay my fee even though I'm not involved with anything. I think I'm entitled to breaking open the pop machine once in awhile and get what I so rightfully deserve. If anything, the school is what is stealing OUR money. And they have the nerve to tell me that stealing is wrong? Bunch of fucking hypocrites, screw you.

You're probably wondering what this "walk-a-thon" nonsense I was talking about earlier is about. Every year the school holds this event called the walkathon, in which every student who's is on a sports team or involved in any extra curricular activity has to walk 10 kilometres (or 6.21 miles for anyone not using the metric system). Not only do they have to walk this distance, but they also have to go around to other people's houses who already pay taxes to go towards the school so that other people's snot nosed kids can get a "good education" (regardless of the fact that our province has the worse schooling system anywheres). The students have to walk around (not during the walkathon, they have to do this on their free time) to people's houses and ask them for a donation. Each student who is participating in the walkathon has to raise at least $20 in any way they can, all of which goes towards to the student council so they can piss it away on something trivial such as our spring carnival, which isn't so much a carnival as it is an attempt at something fun (Our carnivals usually include some stupid shit such as mud wrestling, banana split eating contests or some stupid shit like that). Anyone who wants to raise more than twenty dollars can do so if they want, and the school gives away prizes to the person who raises the most money that were donated from radio shack (I still think they bribed them). These prizes usually include a TV, DVD player, CD player, or some other shit. Hmm...walking around for two hours at school surrounded by a bunch of people wearing our shitty school colors screaming out how much they love their school as well as the five hours that will be wasted after school trying to raise twenty bucks just so they can get a TV that 500 other people are competing for? I'll pass.

Oh yes, I forgot, I can't talk about school spirit without giving honorable mention to our dumbass mascot. I couldn't find a picture of him and I was too damn lazy to draw what he looked like so I'll just describe it as best as I can. Our mascot is a wolverine with a stupid cat in the hat type of hat, a ripped tail that could fall off at any moment, and the only purpose it really has is to piss me the hell off, either that or make everyone have more school spirit but I doubt that this monstrousity has the ability to make me love my school any more than I do right now, so my best bet would be that it's supposed to piss me off. The school decided to call him "Wesley the wolverine", which sounds like the most pathetic name for the most badass animal around. What an insult. One of my friends thought it was a beaver the first time he saw him. This is pitiful. One of the elemenary schools gets a blue devil for their mascot, we get a wussy wolverine dressed in beaver clothing with the tail falling off. We should only feel so proud.

To finish off I'd like to mention quickly one of the events that our school throws for our graduates (aside from prom). It's called "TADD safegrad" (which stands for Teens Against Drunk Driving). The point of this is that after prom (either that or graduation) all of the former grads head on down to the recreation center in our town for a "party" that consists of the following activities:

1. Karaoke

2. Sumo wrestling (You know, in the fat costumes)

3. Swimming

4. Food

5. Some other shit that I don't care to look up

The whole point of this event is to makes sure that teens don't get drunk after graduation and go driving around which could result in loss of life, either that or to show that you can have a good time without drinking. Sure you could have a good time, but you could have an even better time if you WERE drinking, because you know you'd make everyone else feel miserable. Maybe they should change the name to TADIG (Teens Against Drinking In General), because if their actual goal is to make sure teens don't drink and drive then they should serve alcoholic beverages and hire a taxi agency to take everyone home afterwards.