Back To School Night (BTSN) is an event where parents, along with students, gather to check out, observe, and meet students’ teachers. In addition, Kings of Cameron (KOC) RUSH, a pre-game celebration for the football players to “boost” them for the next day, happens after Back To School Night. As a result, there are students who don’t go, and prefer the minimum day, RUSH, or KOC over BTSN for various reasons.
Students have differing reasons they don’t want to be in school and some find that it’s not something they care much about. These students just want a break from school and they love how the school provides a minimum day for this event because of school stress or them needing a break. It gives students less time spent in the school day and lets them relax.
“I’m more excited for that minimum day because I get to go home and relax earlier,” junior Juan Jimenez says.
The minimum day, with every other school event happening in the week, gives BTSN less importance, resulting in various students getting overwhelmed with the amount of events presented to them and not paying attention to BTSN. This leads to students looking more towards the schedule rather than the event, as it’s something that affects everyone.
“More excited about the minimum day out of anything,” junior Kannan Millan says.
However, there are some cases when students could have attended, but can’t because of how inconvenient it is for them, which leads to students losing motivation to attend.
“The thing that’s stopping me from going is because I kind of live far from the school,” Millan said.
Students also often forget that the event exists, prioritizing their own needs over going to the event.
“I don’t really find myself caring, I’m usually just doing homework or playing games either way,” junior Jimenez said.
Some students don’t have any problems with school or have any reasons that stop them from attending the event, but they find that school events don’t concern them, resulting in them not attending. They’d rather have more time off to do whatever they want.
“I definitely care more about the minimum day. I’m not gonna lie. I feel like just leaving early is just more nice, having more time off,” junior Roy Gamez said.
The event that’s so advertised online for our school falls short of the hype it wants to build up, resulting in bored or uninterested students. As a result students spend the minimum day in school the same they would normally, by practicing, studying, or doing homework like they would normally, which shows that students see the minimum day as a normal day with nothing happening if they don’t plan on attending BTSN.
“I just go through all my classes and go home and do school work and practice,” junior Benjamin Ngo said.
BTSN is a less remembered event throughout the school year, a part of which can be attributed to how people dreaded going back to school. Some students feel that the classes and schedule need changing, feeling that they last too long.
“I hate how long classes can be sometimes,” Gamez said.
The minimum day combined with BTSN can affect students who just go day to day with school, it helps to let them have a day to look forward to, but not for the reasons people may think; they don’t look forward to the event, but rather look forward to a shorter day with less stress towards tedious classes.
“It’s not really anything special. You just, you go back to school,” Millan said.
RUSH and KOC at the same time can affect how well BTSN performs because of the differing preferences of students. These events effectively overlap by being on the same day and the day after, which gives students other options into what they attend that can differ based on schedule, excitement, and enjoyability.
