We’ve got to tip our hats to Gilroy High’s students and staff
for the outstanding festivities surrounding homecoming week.
We’ve got to tip our hats to Gilroy High’s students and staff for the outstanding festivities surrounding homecoming week.
It’s a lot of work to build floats, stage a parade, coordinate all the activities, put on a dance and have the whole thing come together in positive fashion. Gilroy High students, staff and parents did just that. It took a team effort to make it all happen, but we would be remiss if we didn’t single out Activities Director Jack Daley for a job well done.
More than just school spirit grows from events such as homecoming. The school spirit feeds the community and brings in support from parents and businesses. Every time an event like the homecoming parade is witnessed by community members, Gilroy High scores points.
Coupled with the academic progress being made on advanced placement classes and the English curriculum, the school is clearly on the way to making a comeback with a segment of the community it had alienated.
That’s as refreshing to see as the two-point conversion that the Gilroy football team scored to tie Alvarez High after being 14 points down.
All that said, the GHS scoreboard that doesn’t function is an embarrassment to our community. It went from bad to worse last weekend, deteriorating from “no score, but the clock works” to “nothing works.”
That makes it absurdly difficult for the players, coaches and fans for various reasons to stay in tune with what’s going on. How much time left? What’s the score? What quarter is it?
Anyway, it’s a shame with all the positive activity surrounding homecoming that the school district didn’t have the scoreboard working. It’s rather like getting all dressed up for the dance and having a large stain on your shirt.
Let’s get the scoreboard fixed or replaced. As we’ve repeated often since the school bond campaigns were launched and now passed, it does no good to have a nice facility (improved upon or new) if it’s not maintained properly. Obviously, the scoreboard has not been maintained and it should be fixed or replaced immediately – if not sooner.
