School dress-up days teach us an interesting thing about high school traditions.
There are 10,315 High schools in the state of California as directed from a 2013 report and it’s been 6 years ever since this was estimated. Imagine how many more public/private schools we have by now. Something surprising than this is that not only High Schools follow these traditions, Jada Griffith ‘20 has went to “Oak Grove elementary school, and we always had dress-up days for special weeks.”
Her original plans for Cowhide dress up days were to leave it open to the students for them to decide, “So they will be able to vote and put it out online for kids to just go and suggest for ideas, and they can contribute to the event, which is what happened.”
She believes students would look forward to coming out with different ideas, “That we haven’t done before and since I’m in the ASB student council I wanted to be very open to the students, so I think they should be excited that they get to have a voice on what they get to wear.”
All the dress up days are always decided by the student body, and the ASB takes the job of spreading the news with flyers, also creating online canvas, and papers going to the teachers classrooms.
Griffiths thinks is important to be informed that “A lot of the times students complain about the ASB doing the same dress up days, or not doing the dress up days that they want, and that’s because of all these guidelines we have to follow, we have made forums for them to vote, but the problem still remains there.”
Students have shown that you dont have to buy a costume and throw around money like confetti to get a decent costume and show your school spirit. Joshua Gilcrest, ’20, shared a fun fact, “Four years ago, when I was a freshman. There was a celebrity dress up day and that’s when I first dressed up as Jesus. I just took a bed sheet and cut off a lot of parts on it, I wrapped it up around myself and all I did from there was find a wig.” He dressed up as Jesus for the Decades Day on October 30, 2019.
Next day was Spooktober based off the Halloween theme. Gilcrest already dressed up for Halloween last week, even before the day came. He was a mummy for one day, unfortunately he threw away the garments he wore. He remained wondering last night, “Oh! What do I do? so I just wore the same white pants, white shirt, except that I went to ‘In & Out’ and got a free hat. Then I just grabbed a red rag and I ended up creating my costume.”
Dressing up for this events is one of the things people as part of the ranger legacy can do to show support.