Monday, February 7, 2005

Name-Calling at BCHS

Do you miss high school?
Nah, I don't really miss high school so much.  And when, just for a split little minute, I do, the monthly Aggie Express Newsletter sets me right again.  For example, the February edition, hotly distilled to PDF, suggests that once again--much like in bygone days--the school system is infested with name-calling, other excitables.  Whenever you're ready, Judith Butler.   The feature, "Verbal Abuse--Slurs and Name-calling," basically reduces to "tend to your foul-mouthed kids!"  So in case you don't have time or inclination to read it, that pretty much sums it up: endlessly curbing intolerant slurs in small town middle Michigan.  In an effort to be more solution oriented, I was speculating about a connection to the school's song (scales are in common with Notre Dame, fwiw).  Notice the ratio of fight to all other words, except and, which pops up twice-6:1.  Pattern, see?

Fight, fight for BCHS,
Keep up the spirit, we'll always try,
Then our team will fight and win
and march on to victory.  Fight! Fight! Fight!

Posted by Derek Mueller at February 7, 2005 9:21 PM to Unspecified