Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake! Huckleberry Pie! V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!! Are we in it?! Well I guess! *******! *******! Yes, yes, yes! No, that's not a swear word. This is a cheer used at some school somewhere in some place at some time. You know the one. Well, even if you don't (but I'm sure you do) it's the same for pretty much every high school. Does it matter to you? Do you care if your school has school spirit? I do.

I think that that cheer is stupid. I think that strawberry shortcake and hucklberry pie are the worst cheer lyrics ever. But that doesn't matter, because, no matter how I feel, those lyrics create comraderie (sp?) within my high school, and that makes the lyrics special. It gives them power. It makes them meaningful and important, although if said at any other time in any other situation people would think I was crazy.

School cheers like that give the students something to rally behind together. The team is there, of course, but if you were all cheering different things, how is the team supposed to know who you're cheering for? That's where the cheer comes in. They know it's *******'s cheer because we have specific cheers that only ******* students can sing with pride and not think we're a bunch of crazy backwards wierdos. When you go to the football games, don't you know that it's the ******* side that always jumps up and down like a bunch of crazy gorillas whenever the band plays that one specific song? Don't you know that it's that specific high school who sings "Go! Go Get'em! Go! Go! Go Get'em Get'em GO!" at the swim meets? You know it's that school because the whole school knows the song (or at least those that go to those events do).

What would a high school be without school spirit? Definitely not as lively, and definitely not as cohesive. High school is a time of growing and becoming an individual, but it is also a time to test the limits of how individualized you can become. Without something to tie all of those individuals together, to unite them, what would a high school be but a common meeting place where only certain people interact? No, I think that school spirit is a necessity. It is one of the few unifying things besides the snack bar that brings the entire high school together under one common banner.

So as they say at one specific high school:
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!! HUCKLEBERRY PIE!! V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!! ARE WE IN IT?!?!? WELL I GUESS!! *******!! *******!! YES!! YES!! YES!!