Enloe cancels Homecoming Dance

In my opinion, no, i dont think it should have taken 300 tickets to break even! And the tickets didnt get sold because, yes, the dance is lame! i went my freshman year and its full of underclassman b/c all they have is winter formal and homecoming for their dances. The reason i never went after freshman year was because, it honestly just was a waste of money. the food was at minumum standards, there were hardly any decorations, and i know i heard the song chicken noodle soup played 3+ times! it was something i didnt enjoy and neither did my friends.
As for the pep rally, i think this is one of the saddest parts of it all! it is a well known fact throughout wake county that enloe students have the most rigorous schedules, classes and study lives. enloe has been one of the most stressful things i have put my self through!! i get good grades yet i feel like i never stop! its constant work and the constant reminder from teachers that we're all failures!! would it kill the administration to allow us 20 minutes of cheering on our athlete!!?! with dr. c being a former athlete herself, i thought for sure she would have been on our side! if there is time allowed durring school for meaningless firedrills, tornato drills and lockdowns, would it kill them to let us go for 20 mins?
Also a disappointing thing this year was the lack of school spirit caused by the administration. i understand that the sophomores got out of hand last year witht he facepaint, and i stronly agree! however, none was it was cause enough to take away class colors day! class color day is a day to celebrate your class spirit and a celebration of ur grade whether sophomores, not being freshman anymore, the freshman, finally being big high schoolers, juniors, finally upperclassman, and the seniors celebrating their last year! their final school spirit day! finally going to graduate and ready to be the big dogs on campus!! where ever they fall, it is a celebration! and honestly, walking around at lunch, i could have sworn it was more like a prisson the way security guards and administration were keeping everyone segregated according to class! i felt like i was back in the 1940s!!! it was rediculous!
my point being, i am a senior, i am a varsity athlete, and i do not appreciate what the administration is restricting us to! i have always been taught to walk a mile in the other persons shoes, and ive tried, really hard to look from every perspective i can! and honestly, there in my mind cant be a better reason for all this insanity other than the administration just hates fun! their fear of rebellion is rediculous and is probabably one of the reasons for some of the odd behaviors seen around campus! but any school run by a women with a doctorate shouldnt be this insane, i think all the pink and orange and whatever other color hair dye is going to her, and the rest of the staffs brain!!!
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Its really sad that we ahd to have a gang fight the cancelled all of our spirt week fun and truthfully most people can already tell this year is gonna suck just because of that...Gang fights happen everywhere and this won't be enloe's last....some of my friends were arrested or involed in the fight but most people don't even know the real story behind it all they just know what they heard on TV. It wasn't just a gang fight cause people who weren't even in gangs were in it...maybe Dr. C needs to make sure kids stay at thier own scool and we won't have this problem any more

Ever since I was a freshman at Enloe, spirit week has been the week to look forward too. From crazy spirit days to crowd rousing pep rally's, spirit week has been the most unifying experience that any student had. Class colors day, which was traditionally held on Friday of spirit week, was the best day of the whole week. It was a day that all students could represent their class and get really pumped for the game that was to be held later on that night, and ever since I was a freshman I just couldn't wait until the day that I was a senior and I could stand out as a senior in my green while packed into a stadium with my fellow classmates screaming and getting pumped during the pep rally. The year(s) that I did experience a pep rally, afterwards me and my friends would pile into a car and go to someone's house to primp and get all ready for the game, then come back to the school and tailgate and hang out before the game. All of these experiences led to a great and amazing day taht would always be remembered. Now I'm a senior....and I'd have to say that this year....sucks. Not only has the pep rally been cancelled, but tailgating has been cancelled too. Not only that but Dr. Cock decided that it would be a great idea to get rid of class colors day and replace it with class unity do....what kind of crap is that. I've waited four effing years and now I'm finding out that our traditional class colors day has been cancelled and replaced with some gay class unity crap...what she doesn't understand is that by breaking tradition your taking away any spirit that this so called spirit week was supposed to bring. So you know what Dr. Cock, I hope your effin happy because you have ruined my senior year. I just feel sorry for the other classes that have to put up with your crap and that have to stay in this hell hole!

Of course they did not cancel the dance due to a gang related fight earlier in the year.

We all know that the schools are safe, don't we? It must be true because the school system says it is true.

Why were only 180 tickets sold? If the dance is delayed "EVERY year" (as shank says) the SAT follows the game, what's the difference this year? Has it been canceled before? How do students (at least the 180 that had planned on attending) feel about it? While it may be a good decision, I don't think we're getting the whole story.

This is just one more action to remove spirit from this school. Every
year for as long as I can remember Enloe has had spirit week with one
day devoted to student unity with all classes wearing their class
colors and shirts. However this year someone has call that off as well
because, as they tell it , it doesn't support school unity. Don't these
adminisirators get it? That is school unity and all the students look
forward to that special day to show student unity and school tradition.
That's what makes Enloe so special.
The next thing you know they will prohibit students and fans from going
to any of the sporting events, because it may encourage students to
exhibit, well, school spirit.
Truly sad when young people are not allowed to be young people.

People say that teens act up and out because there are no structured events for teens to attend and enjoy. How can they enjoy simple things such as the memories of High School Homecoming pep rallys and dances when they are discarded under false pretenses? If pep rallys take up instructional time, have the rally immediately after school or just prior to the game. Who came up with the idea of a Homecoming dance the night after Homecoming? Nice try but obviously even the kids saw through that one. This is a prime example teens will use to go and have an "un-chaperoned" private party. When will we adults stop thinking that teenagers don’t know when adults are playing games? Great job Beth Cochran & staff!

Boo Hoo for Enloe. I graduated from HS in Charlotte-Mecklenburg in '05 and we weren't allowed to have ANY dances whatsoever except for prom. CMS has banned it systemwide for years because the thug wannabees ruined it for everyone.

It's okay to "cut into instructional time" to hold "pep rallies" for selling wrapping paper and penny c$#p, but God forbid they cut into "instructional time" to hold a pep rally to foster school spirit and counter the bad things that kids are trying to do to the reputation to one's school?

Gothca.

Gee if the pep rally was going to be done during instructional time,then don't scdedule for that time- do it afterschool!