“I would like to personally apologize to you and the rest of our administration for how my class acted yesterday during the awards assembly. The behavior of my class is not something I am proud of and I am quite embarrassed myself and can not imagine how you must feel. I am sorry for embarrassing you and the rest of our staff at our public gathering. No group of people should act in the way in which we did yesterday. I hope that with talk from our class officers, our class begins to grow up and learns how they should act at an important event…”

Sophomore Alexis Carignan to Headmaster Famulari, Feb. 13.

The large majority of the Class of 2021 would like to apologize for the way no more than 15 students acted at the school-wide assembly on Tuesday, Feb. 12. However, many of the students who did not behave as if they were “preschoolers” are not appreciative of the way we are being treated.

The sophomore class was spoken to several times during the assembly by administration and then we were asked to stay after the assembly and spoken to after its conclusion. After Mr. Famulari’s final remarks, he approached the sophomores and gave us a very stern talking to for the way we acted during the assembly. Most, if not all, sophomores understood the message and knew that we needed to change our behaviors. The few students who were causing the problem were pulled aside by administrators and given their own consequences for their actions. This was the third time these individuals had been talked to and confronted for their actions during the public gathering.

On Feb. 13, an editorial was published in The Spartans Speak for the public to read about the “sophomoric” behavior. This was over the top and quite unnecessary simply because it was not the entire class (or even half of the class) and the entire class had already been called out for their actions several times. The side of the sophomore class that did not participate in this “hooting, hollering, and screaming” are quite embarrassed by our classmates’ actions and are now being embarrassed more by the administration and older students, similar to the way the individual sophomores were embarrassing the administrators and other students at the assembly.

I believe the administration and The Class of 2021 both owe each other an apology, and those who caused this “mayhem” should have consequences and should change their behavior before they reenter the gym for our next school-wide assembly in June.

Alexis Carignan

Student Senate Member, honors student and Vice President of Class of 2021