Mrs. Camper, a Geometry and Algebra 2 teacher at Sunlake, spends the first couple months of school planning and organizing Homecoming events with the student council. However, it is the week prior to Homecoming when things begin to get really hectic for her. Between selling tickets for events, keeping track of sign-up forms, and getting unexpectedly sick, last week was a hassle for Mrs. Camper. “It was crazy,” she says the day after Powderpuff night. “It was a lot of work, and it was exhausting. But after having everything last night go so well and seeing everyone have so much fun, you realize all the hard work and aggravation is worth it.”
Mrs. Camper has been running the student council since 2013. She says that she takes on more of a behind-the-scenes role, letting the students take the wheel while she guides them and helps them implement everything. Like with ticket sales last week, Mrs. Camper states that she let the students sell everything while she supervised them. “They’re going to be adults soon,” she expresses. “There’s no reason they can’t do all these things. They’re capable, they’re smart, and they should be doing it, not me.”
As for the most stressful part of juggling all these events, Mrs. Camper says that having to train the freshmen staff and letting them know how things have been done in the past is especially frustrating, and can take up a lot of valuable time. In addition, having to deal with the confusing new lunch schedule while trying to sell Homecoming tickets during that period has been a struggle.
After all this work she and the student council put into planning Homecoming events and dress-up days, Mrs. Camper says that she wishes more people would participate. “Hopefully by the end of the week we’ll get a lot more participants and they’ll see how fun it is,” she explains. “Usually there are like thirty people per class in the morning parade, but today there were only about ten. It’s a bit surprising because we did advertise like nuts.” This can be a bit frustrating for her since all this is done for the students, but the after-school events such as Powderpuff have been a lot of fun for everyone and seem to have really paid off. In total, around 1,300 homecoming tickets were sold by the end of the week.
