Being a Trevian

Being a student at New Trier is not like being one at any other school around. Going through four years of high school here is not considered typical. Ya we have classes, extracurriculars, sport teams, and social lives to balance everything out. We have a student body of over 4,000 and yet we have NO spirit and support for our teams. New Treir is the only school that winning a state championship is normal. This past week our field hockey team won the title and i bet more then 70% of the students didn't know. Of the people that knew a few of them actaully thought it was cool. We are the most divided school around we have more "cliques" then any other school around. Its not that they dont get along with eachother but theres one thing that every "clique" has in common and that is that no one cares about our schools sports. At anyother school if their teams make it to the state championship the whole community would know about it and at the end of the year everyone would remember. At New Trier at the end of the year if you ask majority of the students "What teams played in and/or won the state championship?" many of them would not know. Maybe we are good at a lot of sports but theres no reason why you shouldnt know about the sucess. At New Trier if your not first your last!
Along with sports, grades work the same at our school. We recently got our first quater grades, and majority of the students are getting upset at "B's" in AP classes. This may seem ridiculas to most but that looks pathetic to the straight A student. Students aren't the only ones getting upset, their parents are also involved. For some if you come home with a B you are grounded or punished. But isnt a B above average? Yes but our parents have influenced us to believe that an A is the only way.Would we be as competitive without the pressure from our parents? What would we be like if our parents didnt pressure us as much?