I am a senior at La Quinta High School and for these past four years, the spirit weeks never seem to change. There’s always the typical squad or twin day. Pajama day seems to appear every couple of spirit weeks, along with crazy sock day and Hawaiian/ tourist day.

While this year’s rivalry spirit week seems to be different from the past ones, it is still not entirely original. Coachella Valley High did their take on meme day this year as well, as did multiple other schools across the U.S., which blew up on Twitter a few months back. The idea of meme day is fun, but I would like to see our school be ahead of the curve instead of following in the footsteps of other schools.

Along with unoriginal spirit weeks, sometimes ours just flat out don’t make sense. This year’s Homecoming theme was “Through the Decades,” but it went from the ‘60s, ‘80s, ‘50s, and ‘90s. Personally, this spirit week is my favorite we do here, but wouldn’t it make more sense to go in order of the decades and not skip over the ‘70s? A way I believe we can solve this is by letting the students suggest ideas instead of giving us pre-selected options to vote on.

Spirit weeks are a great way to get the student body involved with school events and they’re one of the fun things about the school, but I would like to see us try to come up with different ideas for the spirit weeks for this school year and years to come.