Student cheer sections.
They rarely exist anymore.
There once was a time when the only thing to do in town on a Friday night was attend the local boys' basketball game, but today is a different time.
There are many more sports and there are many other things to do, so students often do not attend their classmates' athletic events.
It does happen, and we have a very good student section (when motivated) at Silver Creek.
The O-Zone.
Kids today...they often cross the line of what is appropriate or acceptable, we all did when we were younger and need to be reminded when to cross back over the line of acceptability.
But kids...if they don't attend athletic events are often critiqued that they don't have school spirit "like when I was in school".
But if they do attend, they do get involved, they do get passionate and loud and they do cross the line from time to time, they are attacked by adults on social media.
Kids do need guidance.
And I think it is relatively healthy to be disliked by other school communities because of the passion a student population has for its classmates, but for high school kids to be criticized in public by their own people...I just don't get it.
I do understand concerns and complaints, I have my own from time to time, but I don't get the idea of complaining on social media about a situation until it has been given a chance to resolve.
And to me, comments that I know to be untrue hurt the overall statement of any complaint.
Adding exaggeration does nothing but create a hostile situation.
Thanks to the students here who love their school, their classmates, and want to show their passion for that school.
How soon we forget what it was like to be young and enthusiastic.
