When I was just a little Whittier elementary student, I remember waking up on Fridays and putting on my black and yellow shirts with splatter paint and Sidney’s block “S.” At the time, my personal favorite was the shirt I got after participating in the second grade cheer clinic. At school I would see my friends in the same pallet of colors and with all different designs and sports displayed on them. These T-shirts were so crucial to Sidney’s culture that they were blasted out of cannons at football games. Students would wait in a frenzy to catch them and when we did it was a big win. At Sidney City Schools, every Friday is a Spirit Friday. There is black and yellow everywhere. While I still participate in Spirit Fridays, now that I am in high school I understand – I believe – that school spirit means more than putting on a T-shirt.