When comparing Blue Valley West to other Blue Valley District high schools, it seems to be that the others are a lot more lenient with students and their traditions. The question is why?
Because BV West has been running for only 10 years, it is known as the “baby” of all schools, besides BV South West. The staff here at BV West is a lot more likely to be stricter with the new schools rather than with the older sister schools. Maybe because they haven’t seen it all, or simply because its morally correct to appear to be conservative.
Whenever seniors want to join in doing those “classical senior pranks”, BV West tries their best to either limit it or just quickly end it. Unlike here, seniors at BV North for instance can prank to some degree without it being a big deal, except with their everyday-senior-spirit-days. That was not acceptable according to the district. But it is acceptable to design their hallways, with a 50 foot limit, like Candy Land for their homecoming theme. And it did look pretty sweet.
After running for 10 years, BV West looks to find more values in respect and accommodation from the district. What really boggles our minds is why we, as a school, are penalized for our youth? Although we are not looking for BV West to completely eliminate all of its rules on the students, we do want BV West to reconsider some of its restrictions on the student body.
Determining the right number of rules and the severity of these rules on students is a difficult task for a school to undergo. At BV West, we are filled with sportsmanship and pride; who said we couldn’t achieve the mere chances of gaining responsibility with a little freedom…