how diffrent groups in school are treated by administration

We all see it, and we all get annoyed by it. Yes is everyones eyes the football team, the Basketball team, and the Lacrosse teams in our school get all the attention form administration. "The football team this, the football team that." News flash, yes we have an alright football team, but what about every other team in the school, why don't we care too much about them? Why can the fooball players get away with so much more than anyone else in this school?

Its not just me who sees this, its everyone. In an interview with cross county caption Emily Amide she says "cross cournty is a sport too, by why can't we get the attention thqt football gets. We are just as good." I completely agree Em. At my school, Tantasqua we got  two  new turf fields. Our Principal  Mr. Lucas had an interview with our schools weekly news channel, TWN said "We should be able to host home games as of October 1st" http://tantasquavideo.weebly.com/twn-shows-semester-1-school-year-2016---2017.html This statement was completely false. Me being on the girls soccer team saw that the field was ready heard that the field was ready, but because administration wanted to open the new field with a football game, we the soccer team had to play on our awful grass fields while during our game football got to practice in the stadium. Why is this? This isn't how athletics should be ran. Okay you want to say that you couldn't open it to public but conveniently we are able to open it to the public on the footballs teams first game. Ok so what if you wanted our football team to open up the new field, I guess I would expect nothing more nothing less, but even with the practice schedule, they should have made it more fair with the time each team got to practice on the turf. Football was allowed to practice on the field every day since the fields where cleared to play on where as the soccer and field hockey teams not only got maybe one or two days to practice on the field, but also had to share the field with each other the majority of the time. We are all about a fair world where everyone gets equal chances, clearly not at Tantasqua. everyone rants and raves about the football team, BUT THEYGOT KICKED OUT OF DISTRICS FIRST ROUND! As of right now November 7th the Tantasqua girls soccer team is the only team left in districts. I bet if we weren't the only team left no one in Tantsasqua would even know that we were in districts. Our golf team made it to state, but no one knew about it until after when there coach actually had to send in a letter to be put on announcements saying the results of the matches. Going back to out turf fields, the girls soccer team was the first team to play on the cage field, all of administration came. But little did we know, they only stayed until a guard came to make sure that nothing went wrong before he came. They only came to publicize that the new field was open. If it was football they would have stayed for the entire game, but no because it was a different team they couldn't stay.

Luckily at my school the football players aren't that rude to other, but there are some who are, usually the freshmen. But our seniors really put them in place if they are rude. People say it the kids who make it all about football, wrong.... Its usually all administration here.

oh BOY!

The most common thing high school girls fight about is ... BOYS! Why fight over them. It's not worth losing a friendship over a guy, or is it?

It hurts to find out that your crush doesn't like you because they like someone else who you though was your friend, I get it, IT SUCKS. But don't let that get you down. you need to power trough and remember that you don't need a guy to be happy. As long as you know you have that one person who will be there for you no matter what your fine. Boys will come and go, but a real friend will be there with you trough it all. If you are ever in a situation where your crush likes someone who you thought was your friend, and that friend goes for that guy, its probably best that they found each other and they are now out of your life because you wouldn't want a friend who you told everything to back stab you like that. You don't need that in your life. you need real people in your life, not fake ones. High school is a lot of stress and pressure, so there's no need to add additional stress by worrying about boys or being back stabbed by a friend. Get the fake people out of your life, you don't need them. Find your person and keep them close, because I can guarantee you that that one person will be there for you 20 years from now!

xoxo~ Tanty Girl

No dress, No guy, No problem!

Its Homecoming season! What are you wearing? How are you doing your hair? Well if you don't know your wearing don't worry here are some tips!

No dress, don't stress. My homecoming is coming up October 15 and I still don't have a dress but im not stressing because there are great places to find dresses.  A great place to get a homecoming dress for cheap is Forever 21.
From Alli O "I have gotten all of my dresses from their and they are awesome!"
Even online places have cheap dresses that are super cute.
http://www.cichic.com/dresses/shopby/style-sexy.html?p=2
http://www.charlotterusse.com/dresses/homecoming-dresses


No date don't stress. You can go to a dance with no date and still have a blast. I have been to every homecoming dance without a date and my friends and I make the best of it and still have a blast. The guy doesn't make the dance for you, you make it. Having friends who don't want to go to the dance because its "boring" and "Lame." Tell them to go because I can guarantee that they will have fun. If you have the right attitude going into the dance it will be fun. You make the dance!

I hope everyone has a great homecoming season! Stay safe!.
xoxo~ Tanty Girl

High School Movies

How many of you thought high school was going to be just like Mean Girls, Clueless, or The Duff? I bet more than half of you. But was/is high school like that. I know that the minute I stepped into high school I thought the seniors where going to be mean to us and that all these popular pretty girls where going to judge me. I was wrong. The minute I stepped into high school, the majority of people where super nice to me. All I could think was "why would I think high school would be so bad?" I know why, its because I watched the movies like Mean Girls, Clueless and The Duff which portrayed high school to be so much worse than what it seemed to be. They made it look like all that mattered was being pretty, rich and popular, but it really didn't matter. The movies you watch growing up affects how you think your life will turn out. Lets be honest we all want to meet our prince charming and live happily ever after, but its not that easy. Yes in high school you might hit those rough patches where there could be the occasional mean girl, or you could be called the "duff." But its how you handle it when you get to that patch or you get called that name. You can revolt by trying to act like them and end up losing yourself like Lindsey Lohan did in Mean Girls, or you can embrace it like Mae Whitman did in The Duff. Don't pull a Lindsey Lohan, be a Mae Whitman and don't let other people in high school define you. BE YOURSELF in high school! Don't let movies change your prospective on how high school is, because it really isn't that bad.

xoxo~ Tanty Girl

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sports Drama

Sports.... Probably the biggest thing that defines you in high school. Are you an athlete or not? Most of you are wondering, why are we on a drama blog reading about sports? But what most of you don't know is that the thing that happen before you step on the field really affects the way you perform on the field. Me being an athlete I know that the things, the drama that happens before a game or even before practice effects my performance. Although different athletes might feel differently and might feel that once they step on that field everything just goes away, not for me. It doesn't even have to be school drama related, it can even be a family issue and it will effect me. Yesterday September 22,2016 for example I got in a fight with my mom, and even though I only had practice it effected my performance, and my coach could really tell. But I have a good relationship with my coach, what if it wasn't me? Would he be able to tell that something went wrong with a player? and did it affect there performance? These are all questions I hope to answer this week! Also what goes through the players mind as they are playing and something dramatic happened to them that day? Can other athletes brush it off or does it stay with them? I want to know do sports teams have drama of there own? On my sports team there are many cliques that sometimes make others feel like they aren't good enough, we are a team but with these cliques they cause drama. Wow! what a comparison. I know that with the different cliques on my team they make some of us feel like we aren't good enough and when they don't include some people, it causes drama. I don't know maybe its only with girls sports.... or is it with all sports?

xoxo~ Tanty Girl

Clique interviews

Thursday September 15,2016

Today I interviewed senior varsity cheerleader Alli O! I asked her a variety of questions about cliques, and here's what she said...

 

Kensie: "Alli, do you think our school has cliques?"

Alli: "yes we do have cliques in our school"

Kensie: What cliques do we have in our school?"

Alli: " we have town cliques like Brimfield, Sturbridge, Holland, Wales, Brookfield, we have hick cliques, sports teams cliques, smart kids cliques, preppy kids, and tech kids."

Kensie: "Do different grades have different cliques?"

Alli: " Yes, its like every other year they have the same but different cliques. The seniors and sophmores and the Juniors and the freshmen just have similar cliques, and it just switches off."

Kensie: " Do you think the cliques you where in in high school will affect you in a long run?"

Alli: "No but yes at the same time. The drama and bad things that happened, ill forget about. But I know that the people who are in my clique will be in my life forever." 

Kensie: " How do you portray the cliques in our school?'

Alli: " The cliques are defined, but not exclusive."

Kensie: " How do other cliques make you feel?"

Alli: " Other cliques really define something's I do in school. If some people are at an event that I want to attend and I don't really like them, then I won't show up at that event."

 

Thanks Alli for your input!

 

Thursday September 22, 2016

Today I interviewed Zach Kelly, a junior band member and student council representative. I asked him a series of questions just like Alli's about the cliques in our school, lets hear what he said....

 

 

Kensie: "Zach, do you think our school has cliques?"

Zach: "yes!"

Kensie: What cliques do we have in our school?"

Zach: "popular girls and guys"

Kensie: "Do different grades have different cliques?"

Zach: "yes there are popular guys and popular girls in every grade"

Kensie: "Do you think the cliques you where in in high school will affect you in a long run?"

Zach: "no, I really don't consider myself in a clique, I just have my friends but we aren't defined"

Kensie: " How do you portray the cliques in our school?"

Zach: "everyone has a different personality, some are mean some are not. It depends on the day on how I would portray them."

Kensie: " How do other cliques make you feel?"

Zach: "I don't really care for them."

 

Thanks Zach!

 

 

Thursday September 22, 2016

Along with interviewing Zach I also interviewed junior Victoria Miles. Asking the same questions as Alli and Zach lets see what Victoria thinks.....

 

 

Kensie: "Victoria, do you think our school has cliques?"

Victoria: " Yes"

Kensie: "What cliques do we have in our school?"

Victoria: "Athletes, show choir, cheerleaders and smarites."

Kensie: "Do different grades have different cliques?"

Victoria: "Not so much with grades as to the different athletic groups we have in the school as a unit."

Kensie: "Do you think the cliques you where in in high school will affect you in a long run?"

Victoria: "Yes, it will affect you personality. If you hung out with mean girls in high school them you are most likely to have a poor attitude. But if you are well rounded them it would make you a better person."

Kensie: " How do you portray the cliques in our school?"

Victoria: "Athletes= superior, Smarties= overlooked. Our school cares about athletics way more than anything else."

Kensie: " How do other cliques make you feel?"

Victoria: "Any clique could make anyone feel that something's wrong will them and make them feel self conscious because your not in with them."

 

Thanks so much Alli, Zach and Victoria!!

xoxo~ Tanty girl