For them, going out to a football game or a pep rally just isn't feasible. Also, in today's society, student support is generally lent to activities other than football. Instead, students are engaging in politics, preventing animal cruelty or stressing one's ethnic, religious, gender or sexual identity. Today students have to have some kind of social relevance for doing things. Having a good time just isn't enough.
Many students agree.
I know that's what tradition is about, but sometimes you have to move on. She suggested that running a canned-food drive or speaking out against domestic abuse as more likely ways of nabbing students' attention. Despite all this, resurrecting school spirit, while difficult, is still possible. This year, the homecoming committee will need to do more than put up a few banners and sing a few catchy fight songs to capture students' enthusiasm. As society and interests change, so must tradition if it is to be kept alive.