Creative differences between the Kaneland High School’s student council executive board and administration have led to changes amongst the school.

One change this year was the moving of the winter assembly. Instead of being before Winter Break, it was moved to a few weeks after break on February 13.

“The assembly after winter break happened because the teachers supposedly didn’t want students being distracted of the assembly hype. Votes were divided and conflict happened between us. The administration in the end thought it just wasn’t worth it due to the absences of Sally Wilson and Lori Grant,” Peponi said.

Grant and Wilson, as advisors, were supposed to spearhead the project with student council, but they were absent during this time due to personal reasons.

“We had to move the assembly because of the situations a few of our teachers were in. It was in the best interest of everyone to move the assembly to February,” Rice said.

Conflicts existed between student council and the administration in regards to student day ideas for spirit week.

“Honestly it wasn’t a really big deal that certain ideas weren’t chosen because we had so many. However, I think the administration is being too overprotective. Our ideas are like traditions and any idea we come up with I guess could be considered offensive in someway. We try bringing the school close together; it’s just frustrating coming up with school spirit ideas when they would just get shut down,” Peponi said.

Aguilar thinks that sometimes the policies can be too strict.

“It’s very disappointing to see ideas rejected. It makes me upset to come up with ideas when they get shot down. You have to let kids get rowdy and have fun. Sometimes overlooking policy issues needs to happen at some point to support school spirit,” Aguilar said.

Just like any job, it is the job of the administration to keep the policies in tact for the greater good.

“We want to make sure that everyone can participate and to make sure everyone has fun with the spirit days. We would much rather change an idea then let kids get made fun of,” Rice said.