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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The senior class poem and the "disruption" of the last meeting before break are both traditions at sidwell. At the last meeting before break one senior leaves the room. Another senior stands up and starts telling a story. The story ends with the student saying something about keys, at which point the senior class starts jingling their keys and singing jingle bells. The student who left at the beginning of meeting returns dressed as Santa and starts throwing candy at everyone. The rest of the seniors join in. This happens at the last meeting before break every year.  As for the senior poem, it is usually read during the holiday concert and can be a bit mean. No hard copy is distributed. The administration always okays the poem before it is read. This year they canceled the poem reading so it was distributed as a hard copy instead of being read at the concerrt. [/quote]
1.  I read the poem--if it is traditional to write such a cruel, mean-spirited, sexually-charged poem, that is quite something.
2.  The seniors walked out 10 minutes into meeting--not the norm from past years.  Seniors also threw candy (hard) at the administrators.
3.  Yes, the poem was distributed in hard copy as an act of defiance to admin who cancelled it, because of the content one presumes.

Is this really traditional, or a graduating class acting out/pushing boundaries?  I like individual Sidwell students I've met, but in groups (cheering sections at games, for example), they came off as smug and a bit nasty.
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