Let's play devil's advocate

Can anyone come up with some kind of convoluted way so that glowsticking in high school is okay.

Here are my tries.

Scenario 1 - Easy but not plausible
- Your high school has 10 people in it, including all staff and teachers.
- Everyone attending is on glowsticking.com
- And it's an afterschool activity, so the actual studying isn't affected.


Scenario 2 - More plausible
- You manage to actually setup a class curriculum, which is NOT a PE class, and that is completely voluntary about glowsticking (21th century Underground Performance and Interpretative Dancing 101). A teacher actually lectures about the culture and all practice is done in the classroom. It is treated exactly like an academic subject and thus nobody glowsticks at prom (would you have marching band in a prom?).

Anyone have any other ideas which are more plausible?

i like dave's scenario 1 the best.


scenario 3:

every one tries to not be popular. people learn that other people's views of you in high school has little impact later in life.

after much rejoicing, people now do things that would have before sparked criticism and/or created the next big fad. everyone is happy. all war stops, middle eastern countries form a new alliance with the US and everyones quality of life improves. and glowsticks are now free to the public.

scenario 4:
you start your own high school in your basement, and have all your glowsticking friends join.

5: being home-schooled.

6:after school when pretty much everyone has left

7) a really small school k-12th , not more then 200 overall. And about half the people there are ravers themselves

8.

You start a after school club on glowsticking.
While not leaving all the facts out about the culture and informing them on the concept of PLURR.
Fixing the ignorant Misconceptions of the culture.

#7 is bad.

#8 is...... MAYBE... as long as everyone agrees not to glowstick at ALL and this club isn't promoted at school. but that would make the formation of the club impossible, since it needs to be promoted to have members, and if it was just a group of friends, why do you need a club?

just stick with #6, which is simple. but it's probably got to be a time and place where there isn't a bunch of other random people.

Scenario 9: A performing arts school where the kids WANT to be there to make some sort of career/future for their arts. I'm not saying that glowsticking would be treated as a career, however, it may be an aspect to integrate if you wish (such as an integration to dancing). The school teaches the culture as well as well. There is a school here called the Denver School of the Arts that makes me think of this scenario.

Scenario 10: A small charter/alternative school where kids go to get done with school but also focus on an art. My old charter school was like this.... it only had 60 kids, 15 kids per grade. Every Wednesday was our "concentration" day, where we either did art, snowboarding, hockey, skiing, skateboarding, etc... We were there because we were sick of the people and dynamics in traditional school setting. So this kind of runs into scenario A, but not really.

#11 In a room where no one goes but you.

# 12 Go the new insomniac highschool!

Which offers, p.e., dance classes, music creation, glowsticking classes, along with math and english. With your prom being EDC!

#13

If you have enough people who want to do it, all you need is one supporting teacher for it to be an official group/club. Then you are allowed to use the school after hours in presence of the teacher when you propose a scheduled date and time for the activity to the principle. It is against the law for you to be rejected unless you have violated any of the school policies.

So yeah.....

It could happen!

(for example, although it is against the law for a public school to practice religion, my school has bible study every Monday from 6 to 7. It is legal because it is an independent group with a supporting teacher that is after school hours and is completely voluntary)

14: Never.

if scenario three does not happen, see scenario fourteen

15: You go to a very specialized, collegiate-level high school full of eclectic and dynamic people who can handle things maturely. Furthermore, you have found friends in this high school who understand and agree with glowsticking culture. You all support each other.

However, the sticking doesn't occur inside the high school.

It probably occurs at someone's home, after school.

13... not so good. people argue this point all the time, but the entire glowsticking culture and what it relates to goes against a lot of what a teacher is supposed to prevent you from knowing about

15. somewhat elitist-- and making a point that young teens who do better academically are less inclined to have a need to fit in or be conformist and are somehow more versed.-- unfortunately it seems like the smartest kids with all AP and IB classes with a 1400+ (2 sections) SAT also have the tendency to be better organized about the showing off, but still is that, overall.

But the glowsticking in someone's house after school thing saves your premise. but you wouldn't be glowsticking in high school, then.

Scenario 4 sounds good..with the part of scenario 1 that everyone has to be on glowsticking.com

6 sounds okay..but then that could be loitering which yet again makes glowsticking in HS a bad idea.

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If a class in school had a physical curriculum that incorporated poi, I know my high school had some rhythmic gymnastics. I don't see why glowsticks couldn't be used once in a while.

I used to glowstick in high school and I didn't feel like the way I did it was wrong at all. I had a group of about 5-6 people that I would string and spin poi with behind the art building or on some isolated part of campus where nobody would bother us and we could practice all we wanted. We met at my house on weekends to actually crack fresh sticks and would invite other people at school who seemed genuinely interested in the art and didn't just want attention at school dances and whatnot.

Glowstringing in high school can be okay if you approach it right. Most of the time we were spinning sock poi as well and would learn poi moves to later transfer to our strings on weekends.

I love this one!

17. at an arts high school, where most (>70%) students are collegiate level performance/fine art majors, during gym class where you either play chess, ddr, or glowstick or between rehearsals/practice sessions (that's what my high school was like, everyone did it, but our student population was under 500 then)