Every year at CHS, there’s a Senior Skip Day, typically the last official day of school for Seniors (this year, it was today). At the end of this “Senior Reflection Day,” as it is known as in front of teachers and administrators, there’s a water fight held in the senior parking lot, where a primary goal is to drench underclassmen with as much water as possible. But not this year. The administration walked out to the parking lot before school let out and effectively shut down anyone with a water balloon - thus, the day that many seniors had been waiting for all year went unfulfilled.

Now, I’m not by an means a fan of the administrative team at CHS, but you have to put what they did in perspective. Just earlier this week, I was sitting in a circle with some friends during lunch outside in the courtyard. Out of nowhere, a full Gatorade bottle flies through the air and hits a boy sitting across from me in the head. Next thing you know, there’s a steady stream of blood dripping off his scalp. It’s incidents like those that sometimes force the administration to put stringent policies in place. So in regards to the water fight at least, it’s not the administration we should be mad at - it’s the brainless idiots who think that pelting projectiles into groups of unaware bystanders is funny that we should make us pissed off.

Either way, the Seniors got jipped, and it’s not fair to the majority of them. But then again, when has education been about treating people individually without prejudice based on the actions of others their age?

I agree with what you’re saying here. Too many people are too quick to blame the administration, but the mindless idiots in our school are really what forced them this far. As far as I know, people filling water balloons with urine and bleach is what led them to this decision, plus the *obnoxious* amounts of stinkbombs let off today. Someone bombed the lobby of the PAC while we were having a bunch of people coming in. To me, it’s the students that ruined this year’s balloon fight, not the administration.

Actually there was a balloon fight. At Mcintire (sp?) park. It sucked.