“Spirit week, for me, is where we dress up during school and get (excited) for Homecoming,” said Jimmy Reimer, a senior and the student council president at Springfield High School ...

Spirit Week at Leopold High School is a completely different event than at most schools. The senior spirit leaders — the boy cheerleaders for volleyball — pick the dress-up days for Volleyball ...

Spirit week was a high-school and maybe middle-school affair, so my parents didn’t have to do anything. I was old enough to dress myself up—or not. Plus, we had one spirit week a year.