Lifelong decisions are influencing the selection of high school rings. Students no longer want to wear them for a few years only to toss them into some jewelry box. Megan Jenkins, a Countryside sophomore, wants to be a firefighter and paramedic. A member of the Safety Harbor Fire Explorers, she is determined to help people. Her ring sports medical symbols, including a cross.
Some rings are a bit demure.
Elissa Scharmen's doesn't exactly come right out and say that she attends Largo High School. But even the students say all this individuality is expensive. Which is why so many students have passed on the old-fashioned class ring. And then there are those who prefer tradition. They want their rings to look like class rings, sport the school's mascot, the school's colors and their school activities.