During lunch, the quad was covered in groups of students enjoying the beautiful weather on the second day of Not in Our School Week celebrations.

Student band The Aisling Project provided music. Juniors Jay Vertin and Gabe Wolf sang and played guitar and junior Jacob Lauing played drums.

The activity was Dissolving Stereotypes. Students were invited to write a stereotype in marker on slips of rice paper and then place the slips in a kiddie pool to watch their messages disappear. 

Many students came up to the tables where the materials were laid out, and even if not everyone dissolved a stereotype, many stood around the pool talking and laughing as they watched the stereotypes dissolve.

Principal Phil Winston stopped by the tables on his daily lunch rounds and chatted with students.

Towards the very end, Vertin announced that he was going to play the song “Alleluia,” but that he needed junior Ali Dwight to help him sing it.  She came up on the deck, to cheers from students on the quad, and Vertin proceed to ask her to prom by singing alternate lyrics. She said yes.

According to the daily bulletin,  tomorrow’s activities include “unity in a line” and sidewalk chalk messages.