CLASS RIVALRIES BRING FUN TO PCC

by the Young Voices Staff

It was early Monday morning when the members of the Journalism class discovered they had been cursed. Written on the whiteboard were Harry Potter-related insults, along with various Voldemort graffiti. It was the latest salvo in the ongoing Journalism/Wizarding World of Harry Potter feud.

“We started out just writing friendly notes on the board,” Ms. Brainard explains. The two classes share the same classroom, Journalism in period 1, and Wizarding World of Harry Potter period 2. After Mr. Keough started including puns in his messages, Journalism challenged them to a “wizarding pun duel.” It was not long before things got out of hand.

“They got very aggressive,” Ms. Brainard continues. Your brain must be ‘stupefied,’ read one of the message, referencing the spell from the Harry Potter books. Is something ‘Ron’ with you? uses the name of Harry Potter’s best friend and sidekick, Ron Weasley, in its aggressive pun.

This follows in the tradition of PCC class feuds, the most famous of which is the Aviation/Real Robots feud that has been going on for several summers now. Real Robots and Aviation do not share a classroom the way Journalism and Wizarding World do, but they are next door to each other.

“We’re kind of like Romeo and Juliet,” Aviation student Ally explains, “we kind of hate it each but no one knows why.”

Julian is a current Aviation student who took Real Robots last year. “We’re kind of like opposites, right next to each other. But we’re also both science-y.”

Past pranks between the classes included Aviation sending paper airplanes flying into the Robots classroom. Real Robots retaliated by sending their robots into Aviation to overtake the class. They also drew crashing airplanes on the whiteboard, and overturned the desks.

“Real Robots always wins,” Julian concedes. “They have better pranks.”

Both students claim that the feud is a friendly one, and done just for fun.  The same is true for the Journlism/Potter rivalry. “I like it because it adds another element to the classroom,” Journalism student Ciara says. Fellow student Jenna agrees, “I’m a sucker for a good pun.”

As a fun diversion, the PCC Classroom Duels may continue forever. “Hopefully, we’ll still be doing this at alumni events,” Ms. Brainard says as she erases the whiteboard and plans today’s message.