On October 27, the Spanish Club, Garden Club and AVID hosted the Halloween Dance at school. The dance started at 2:30 PM and ended at 5:00. The money was being split up among the three clubs.  Over 400 students came to the Halloween Dance, raising over $3,000 in ticket sales.

At the Halloween Dance, there games along the hallways, a snack bar by the cafeteria and a haunted house in the fitness room.  The Parent Faculty Organization ran the snack bar, serving pizza, nachos, horrorchata, agua de piña, cupcakes, and they were even selling candy.

The Garden Club ran and organized the haunted house.  Social Studies Teacher Mr. Ron Cheser, with the help of Math Teacher Mr. James Axton, and Science Teacher Mr. Johan Appell, built the maze and staffed it with student volunteers.  This year, the theme for the maze was a hospital, with all the actors and decorations made to look like a horrific medical scene.

Sixth-grader Hannah Gurrola attended the dance thought it was fun and the decorations were nice.  She also said that the DJ had some good songs playing.  Regarding the maze, Hannah said, “It was scary but fun.  It also could have been longer and there could have been more light to see where you were going.”

Hannah thought the games could have been a little better, but enjoyed making slime and the ping pong cup game.

With the proceeds, all involved clubs will have some funding for their activities.  According to Spanish Club Adviser Mrs. Denise Vicario, the Spanish Club wanted the money to pay for their field trip to the Latin American Art museum, the bus, the artwork shop, to pay for the food, and to pay for the entrance.

Vicario liked that the school utilized the ineligibility list for the dance. “It was effective to help the kids with F’s, so their grades can go up. There wasn’t many behavior issues,” said Vicario.

When purchasing tickets for the dance, any students who currently had a failing grade were not allowed to buy a ticket.  They could get a waiver from their teachers if their grade had improved, though.  This extra step did make the ticket line move a little slower, but everyone was still able to get through during lunch in the week leading up to the dance.

Eighth-grader Desiree Gray attended and thought the dance was a great experience for students.  She didn’t go to the games, but they seemed like fun to her.  Desiree did make it through the haunted house, though.  “I thought it was pretty good, but it was really hard to see and know where you were going,” said Desiree.