If we’re going to have a homecoming, let us at least enjoy it.
After 20 years of no homecoming, De Pere has since 2021 slowly allowed its students to participate in decade long homecoming traditions. This includes chalking parking spots, the dress-up week and the homecoming dance.
However, toilet papering the school is not very high on traditions they want to bring back.
On Sunday night Sept. 14, the senior class gathered together in the wee hours of the night and toilet papered the high school, middle school and the surrounding area. The next morning, around 10:30 teachers received an email to send seniors in their FLEXs out to clean up the grounds.
While cleaning up the toilet paper, one senior said they never saw our grade so unified, and I would have to agree.
Harmless fun is all it is.
In general the De Pere Community has positive comments about the t.p. on the community connection page on Facebook. Rachel Randall posted: “Whoever t.p. the high school last night. Great job, very creative too. They really did a good job. I love kids still have fun doing this.”
If parents can see the light-heartedness in it, why can’t our principals?
I believe that sending seniors down to clean up the toilet paper the Monday after is the stupidest thing to ever be asked to do. I’m not angry at the fact that they sent seniors down to clean it up; we’re the ones who did it.
I am annoyed at the fact that it was completely gone by 6th hour on Monday. No one got to even live in it!
Do you know who ended up picking up most of the toilet paper? The principals themselves!
I talked to principal Roger Allen about “why” he made the call to clean up the t.p on Monday. He said the reason behind it is the complaints he gets every year from the houses along Chicago Street. The homeowners complain the t.p gets caught in their drains from getting blown over by the wind, he said, and because it was very windy on Monday, he wanted to act fast.
Though I understand his overall concern for our neighbors, I disagree with cleaning it up the morning after. It’s windy every day, and by cleaning it up it diminishes the excitement from the night before.
Let us wait at least until Thursday, and I’d be glad to pick it up then.
But to our neighbors: let us have our fun.
