Over the years I have had both students and parents tell me that my rules around fan behavior at athletic events is a bit restrictive. For those of you who don't know, my philosophy about this is that our fans, both students and parents, should focus their support of our teams on our teams. Taunting the other teams, calling out numbers, getting after officials, chanting toward the opposing school's fans and the like is something that I have not allowed our students to do. My concept is to be loud and proud of being Alvirne Broncos.
I average between 50 to 70 athletic events a year, both home and away. I have seen every behavior possible from opposing schools. Some turn their backs when our teams have been introduced, they have been verbally abusive to our players, they have thrown things, they have chanted inappropriate things, they have taunted individuals as well as whole teams. One school actually took out newspapers and held them up as if to read them when our team was introduced. ( I didn't like it but it was creative.)
When our students go to support our teams they are known as a class act. We have received e-mails from school officials, NHIAA officials, and even a comment from a member of the State Board of Education on what a pleasure it is to see our students create a positive atmosphere at events. These compliments also come from people when our students to go competitions for music, drama, career/technical education competitions, and other organizations as well. These compliments about our school community come from the philosophy that we are loud and proud of being from Alvirne High School. So for those of you who feel I should lighten up a bit, my response is thank you for the input but I really think we are the ones who set the standard for everyone else to meet. We are Alvirne Broncos, enough said.
I completely agree Mr.Lane. We really do set the standard for other schools. We should never go down to their level. Thats just wrong. We are Alvirne Broncos.I may only be a sophmore but i know how it feels to be an Alvirne Bronco. and it feels great. ALVIRNE BRONCOS!
ReplyDeletei agree, we are one great school with a lot of acceptable behavior at our games, competitions, showcases, etc. One thing i have found that was completly un believeable was that my mom was talking to a mother of a merrimack highschool student she went to the game, and this lady was telling my mother how disrespectful the kids of alvirne were being and rude they were and my mom was like are you talking about hudson alvirne? and infact the lady was! unbelievable!
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