Pep rally- A (usually mandatory) gathering of all the students in a school on the day of a game (usually American football) in which students are expected to cheer loudly, applaud cherrleaders, listen to the marching band, and pretend to have some sort of attachment to th school. Popular kids love these things, others really don;t enjoy them, at least until thier senior year, in which all but the most vehemantly anti-social (and the ones who REALLY hate the school) get at least a bit sentimental over it :)
It's when everyone goes into the gym, and the jocks run around for us. Oh yeah... and the cheerleaders do some cheers, and try to get us to cheer with them. It's supposedly to build up our pride in our school, but I just see it as a way to push the superiority of jocks upon everyone else.
Pep rallies are evil and if you have any common sense you would skip them and go smoke in the bathroom or something.
But if you want the -real- definition, they're supposed to promote school spirit, sometimes before a big game. They're held during special occasions, like "Welcome Back to School" and "Homecoming Week" and all that. Cheerleaders dance, dancers dance, team players are introduced, coaches talk, we wear face paint and cheer, blah blah blah.
I usually just tried to find a way out of them and hang out in the bathroom. Or if I was stuck there, I'd just sit with a friend and laugh at everything. Blah. I'm so happy to be out of high school.
Oh yeah, the seniors get to walk around the gym and talk shit, and lots of times they do embarrassing things to freshmen like blindfold them and smash pies in their faces and stuff. I went to all of them my freshman year because I wasn't good at ditching, went to all the ones the band played at (not many, none of the lil thug gangstas gave a shit), and the last one just so I could show no emotion at all because I hated school. They are dumb.
Ok, for the record - I was in band for 8 years and was a football cheerleader for one year. I loved pep rallies. I went to a very small school in a rural area in the Midwest so we only had 2 a year - opening season football game and the football homecoming game.
They were a lot of fun. In a small school everyone participates - if you want to. There were games, cheers, contests. The band plays, people perform skits. The players, coaches, bandmembers, directors, and event organizers are introduced. It was a whole community thing.
Usually class officers - president, vp, secretary, and treasurer get involved too - in organization, representing their class. It's a very big deal - we would get about 2 hours off at the end of the day and lots of times parents would come. It really was a community deal.
I know in bigger schools and today in smaller schools things aren't quite this way. But back in 1982-1985 in the Midwest small town kids didn't have a heck of a lot to do - and drugs weren't really an option back then - so we made our own fun. Pep rallies were a big part of it.
And one last thing - I wasn't a popular kid. I was too tall and a little on the heavy side to be a cheerleader. I got lucky. I was more of a nerd but atheletic and in all the activities, but not popular by anyones measure. So, must say pep rallies aren't just for the popular kids!
Dude, our pep rallys rock. Homecoming week. We all decorate our locker hallways with balloons and streamers and stuff, and at the pep rally, the band plays, and we all scream, and there's a giant match of tug-o-war (which my class won this year! yea!). I have fun...I mean, it's just, like, let's-get-together-and-scream-a-lot. At our school, it's not really about being popular or anything. It's just fun.
*brit accent* fascinated by American Kulcher, ah youu?
Just to heave another comment onto the Suck pile,
Our pep rallies consist of small, peppy cheerleader girls (who are all freshman and will all inevitably sleep with a football player), something like little tiny Lolitas, my friend calls them Athletic Supporters (ha, ha... that was tasteless) in tiny, tiny short skirts made to entertain horny football players.
During the course of the pep rally, cheering competitions are held (shoot me-- what an obstacle to a nice conversation) and the football jocks run around with their arms over their heads like bears and groan in loud, cacophonous tones to prove their manliness.
Usually I turn my back to the entire spectacle, as uncomfortable as it may be, and remark as loudly as possible to my neighbor about how much school spirit sucks, and how this is a waste of my time. While wearing headphones. And doing homework.
And other times, we go under the bleachers and shout "Football sucks." And wallow in our pretentious intellectualism.
Actually, yes I am. Things like pep rallies, school spirit, Pledge of Allegience and stuff like that are really weird to me, and since I'm writing a series of stories about teenaged Americans, I'm doing research. ^_^
(See, when I was in school, when we wanted to yell and be hyper, we went to a party and got drunk. Well, they got drunk. I don't get drunk, ever at all.)
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But if you want the -real- definition, they're supposed to promote school spirit, sometimes before a big game. They're held during special occasions, like "Welcome Back to School" and "Homecoming Week" and all that. Cheerleaders dance, dancers dance, team players are introduced, coaches talk, we wear face paint and cheer, blah blah blah.
I usually just tried to find a way out of them and hang out in the bathroom. Or if I was stuck there, I'd just sit with a friend and laugh at everything. Blah. I'm so happy to be out of high school.
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;_; the world isnt fair..
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Another perspective!
They were a lot of fun. In a small school everyone participates - if you want to. There were games, cheers, contests. The band plays, people perform skits. The players, coaches, bandmembers, directors, and event organizers are introduced. It was a whole community thing.
Usually class officers - president, vp, secretary, and treasurer get involved too - in organization, representing their class. It's a very big deal - we would get about 2 hours off at the end of the day and lots of times parents would come. It really was a community deal.
I know in bigger schools and today in smaller schools things aren't quite this way. But back in 1982-1985 in the Midwest small town kids didn't have a heck of a lot to do - and drugs weren't really an option back then - so we made our own fun. Pep rallies were a big part of it.
And one last thing - I wasn't a popular kid. I was too tall and a little on the heavy side to be a cheerleader. I got lucky. I was more of a nerd but atheletic and in all the activities, but not popular by anyones measure. So, must say pep rallies aren't just for the popular kids!
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Just to heave another comment onto the Suck pile,
Our pep rallies consist of small, peppy cheerleader girls (who are all freshman and will all inevitably sleep with a football player), something like little tiny Lolitas, my friend calls them Athletic Supporters (ha, ha... that was tasteless) in tiny, tiny short skirts made to entertain horny football players.
During the course of the pep rally, cheering competitions are held (shoot me-- what an obstacle to a nice conversation) and the football jocks run around with their arms over their heads like bears and groan in loud, cacophonous tones to prove their manliness.
Usually I turn my back to the entire spectacle, as uncomfortable as it may be, and remark as loudly as possible to my neighbor about how much school spirit sucks, and how this is a waste of my time. While wearing headphones. And doing homework.
And other times, we go under the bleachers and shout "Football sucks." And wallow in our pretentious intellectualism.
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(See, when I was in school, when we wanted to yell and be hyper, we went to a party and got drunk. Well, they got drunk. I don't get drunk, ever at all.)
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