i don't know about other schools, but one of the things i remember about good ol' CHS is the one-clap.
we were on block scheduling (classes were an hour and a half and met every-other day) and every other day during 6th period we had a required study hall -- SRT. Student Resource Time. i 99% of the time got an SRT pass to my art room and screwed around in there. fun. anyways.
everytime a sports team from CHS did something exceptional, they'd herd the student body down to the varsity gym and have a convocation. the sports team that no one really cared about would get to dress up, have their parents come in, and their fellow students would be subjected to stories of the struggle it took to get to this point, how proud they should be, blah blah blah. then each team member would get to walk across the floor with their parents while their name was called and receive some sort of plaque or certificate.
the apathetic student body didn't applaud each individual properly. no, us carmel kids are beyond (above?) such displays of spirit and affection. each name received one single clap, delivered from the hands of around 4,000 fellow students at the same moment.
after having attended three carmel high school graduations ('01, '04, and now '05), i realize that the one-clap goes beyond the varsity gym to graduation. every year the CHS students start doing it with the first A names, and the parents and friends in attendance think we're clever and laugh through the beginning row of students called out. this year's seniors let the one-clap fade out pretty soon. it was almost dead in the mid-B's. i think it got revived, but i wasn't paying enough attention to know for sure. and we left after the Cr's.
and that is the carmel one-clap. did anyone else do this in their school? or is it a habit reserved for pretentious posh kids from carmel?
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Wow, that sounds really surreal. How precisely did y'all manage to time it? I'm picturing a stone-faced student body, all making one simultaneous CLAP as if on cue. Though I'm sure that's not how it was.
Marion students didn't do that. I don't remember getting sent to forced spirit meetings like that, but I imagine the students would fall into in several groups:
A. The kid's friends, who would make unnecessary noise and annoy everyone.
B. People who'd applaud at first, just to be polite, but quit once they realized how much clapping they'd have to do through the whole presentation. (I'd fall in here)
C. People who didn't clap at all, because they didn't care or were busy doing something else.
my high school was chs too. funny....
carl, you got it right. it was a stone-faced student body, all making one simultaneous CLAP as if on cue.
maybe we're zombies?
Holy crap. Choreographed sarcastic apathy. I love it.
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How did Jesse Arnold get points?
jesse arnold made me a wicked awesome keychain that's better than meredith's and he's nice to me. so there.
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