No School Spirit?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
by SeanC-S

Sometimes when I walk around campus of Worcester Academy I hear people talking about who is going to be going to a certain game after school. Usually people’s responses are something like “NO WAY” or “I really do not care at all about that particular team.” Recently, I went to the Central Massachusetts Semi-Final basketball game at Holy Cross College. Worcester North High School was playing St. Johns High School. I could not believe how many fans showed up to the game for St. Johns. It was like a sea of white. I wondered why Worcester Academy was not the same way.

I am here to tell you the reason why WA can be known by some to have no school spirit is because of a couple reasons. 1. Because WA is such a diverse school with day borders living in towns as far as Hopkinton or Holliston, students do not want to drive really far or their parents do not want them driving to far away destinations besides school. 2. The amount of activities and homework that WA offers and gives is much more than other schools offer and give. 3. WA has a smaller student body than most schools around, so not as many people can make every game because they of the small student body.

Schools around Worcester County have one thing in common with each other usually unless it is a private school like WA. The students that attend schools around here like Burncoat, Doherty, Holy Name, St. Peter Marian, North, and South live in the area of the school. Getting to the games is not much of a problem considering the students that live farthest away from their school is about only fifteen minutes at the most. This is a problem for WA because some students do live far away and are still day students. One solution to my first problem is to develop some kind of bus pick-up system on the weekends. Not to go to each individual town, but to go to a town that is near the towns that the students live in. This way, the students can drive or get dropped off at that particular spot and get to the game that way.

Worcester Academy is known for its academics and its sports, because this school has so much to offer with its extra-curricular activities its hard for everyone to be watching a particular game because they might have their own to be at. This problem is something that really cannot be solved but shows that its impossible for everyone to be everywhere at once. Other schools around Worcester do not offer as much extra-curricular activities so not having much else to do, they just go to the games. Lastly, because of Worcester Academy’s small student body, there are not many students that can attend all of the games. This is very similar to how Worcester Academy offers so much extra-curricular activities that everyone cannot be everywhere at once. Hopefully someday, the Upper School will have over one thousand students so that more people can attend more games and no one will call WA a school with no spirit!

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