Prom Poster Problems
May 11, 2023
Conflicts between supporters of prom court candidates have led to posters being vandalized as tensions rise.
As the prom court election approaches, candidates need to find a way to promote their campaigns. Campaign posters are a popular form of advertisement and have become a tradition at Bell. Last week many prom court posters were being torn down. Some assumed it was done with ill intent.
As this happened tensions started to rise, and accusations were made about who was responsible. Supporters of the candidate who had their posters torn down started to rip down other posters to fight back. The situation escalated to the point where administrators had to intervene.
“It’s not nice,” PSA Coordinator Ms. Franco said. According to Franco, when she was told about the situation, she told the candidate to tell their supporters to stop or else they would not be part of the prom court. According to an unnamed source, parents were upset and complained to the school about some students bing treated unfairly.
Prom court candidates decided to put the kerfuffle to an end by agreeing to tell their supporters to stop the vandalism. As for the instigators of the situation, many reported seeing two students being the first rip down posters. These two students were not even affiliated with any candidates to begin with. Reportedly they had been doing it for a laugh.
“When students take the effort to create posters everyone should respect them,” Principal Barragan said.
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Russell Raymundo, Ms. Pena per 6 • May 25, 2023 at 5:22 pm
I think it’s very childish and unfair for people to ruin the kid’s effort to run for prom king/queen, this gave them less advantage to being voted and made them seem like a bad option ruining a special moment in their life, parents should teach their children, better and the school needs to be more strict regarding this.
Daniel Garcia • May 25, 2023 at 3:24 pm
This is a good article because it really puts to light that the posters were being torn down. I personally did not know these posters were being torn down let alone torn down by the supporters of the other competing people. I think the people doing this fail to realize that eventually, they might want to do this too and put up their own posters. I also like the fact that this article included the PSA coordinator’s statement so it shows that this problem is more serious than it looks. Bell High students should be more aware of how tearing down posters makes others feel.
Juan Garcia • May 25, 2023 at 12:41 pm
This is a good article. I hope Bell High students can take their time and read this article, so they can know the importance of respecting others’ hard work and dedication. It’s not nice to tear and ripped down posters just for fun or for a laugh. That is so childish and disrespectful, instead, they should acknowledge the hard work of the candidates who are being nominated for prom queen or prom king, you never know if one day you will be nominated and need to do your own posters for whatever you want to promote.
Juan Garcia
Ms. Castillo Period 3
Miguel Albarran, Mrs. Vargas, Period 1 • May 25, 2023 at 12:27 pm
In this article I believe that tearing down the posters is not okay as people spend their time on making these posters to promote themselves for prom which we have to respectful with others and not be disrespectful with things that are not yours. And this article explains well on the situation that is happening.
isaac • May 25, 2023 at 9:54 am
I learned that Prom posters were being torn down. I feel like this is wrong because the way you wouldn’t like to have your poster torn down is the way you should treat others. So I think that just for a laugh of it, it is not ok.
Dulce • May 25, 2023 at 9:39 am
I think that is horrible. What those kids did to the posters is not funny, and people take a lot of time on those posters especially for prom. They should think about how the students running feel. That’s not right and I hope they stop that.
Fatima Ghacham, Mrs. Vargas - Period 4 • May 25, 2023 at 9:35 am
This article is important because it lets students know not to act in such a foolish way. Tearing down posters that students made are wrong. After having students spend time working on them and putting them up around the school, others come and rip them down. This is wrong for one to mess up another’s hard work. Nobody would want to have this done to them. We should all treat others the way we want to be treated.
Joselyn Bazaldua (Mrs Vargas) Period 2 • May 25, 2023 at 8:55 am
The students who started the vandalism to the candidate’s posters were acting very childishly and rud, ripping the work the other students put the effort into making. Another wrong move, in my opinion, is the other candidates fighting back and ripping even more prom posters, making the problem even more extensive. This article also serves as a lesson to respect other people’s things and to show respect to people in order to avoid consequences.
Sebastian Hernandez Mrs. Pena Period 3 • May 24, 2023 at 10:35 pm
I too also agree that it is not nice that some people are interfering with other people’s pursuit of simply trying to run for prom court.
Emily Hernandez • May 24, 2023 at 6:06 pm
Emily Hernandez
Mrs. Vargas
Period 6
Students should not be vandalizing and destroying other people’s work so that they can laugh. It’s immature of them and is not the right thing to do. The students that took part in this act should face a consequence after destroying someone else’s work.
Luis Orozco • May 24, 2023 at 2:48 pm
People are out of the line to be ripping up or vandalizing prom candidate posters. It takes a lot of courage to put up a picture of yourself for everyone in the school to see. People don’t see that as they carelessly rip off some posters meaning to make fun of them. The person putting up the poster has done nothing wrong but others still do it for ‘fun’. This should reach out to many others to spread the word about this wrongdoing. I’m glad this article became public as I did not know how much of a problem ripping off someone’s prom poster was. Luis Orozco, Mrs. Vargas P5.
Alondra Campanero Mrs.Vargas Period 2 • May 24, 2023 at 12:46 pm
The students that vandalized and tore down the posters should own up to their actions and realize that what they’re doing is childish. It is not fair for the prom court candidates to get their hard work taken down just for a laugh. I wonder how they would feel if something they worked on for a long time was destroyed.
Aaron Beas • May 24, 2023 at 11:54 am
That is just messed up, because these people have to take hours or even maybe days to get the poster printed and posted up to the school walls and its just disrespectful that two people would just rip the posters and cause a problem between the prom court candidates. Thank you for giving me this information, I will try to be more aware for people who try to take down the posters and will also try to stop them from doing more damage between the prom court.
Aaron Beas
Mrs. Vargas
Period 4
S.G • May 24, 2023 at 11:45 am
This article’s message was important for people to know because of the way people took their time to promote their poster just for them to get destroyed. It is important to respect each other with kindness and understanding even if people disagree. The article should find the readers peaceful and respectful ways to encourage them to be respectful to each other. This emphasizes the importance of listening to each others perspective and engaging each other to spread kindness, instead of treating each other with disrespect. In other words, there was no need for people to destroy other people’s posters just because they didn’t want that person to get what they wanted.
arianna • May 24, 2023 at 11:13 am
This isn’t something someone should do to laugh. People put all their effort into making their posters the best. This is something disrespectful and wrong, people should have more respect for others. This is a problem that needs to be stopped.
-Arianna Arriola, Period 2
A.H • May 24, 2023 at 11:08 am
I agree on how it is wrong to vandalism posters of those who are trying to promote themselves. They put the effort in trying to get their name out there and some people vandalize them just for a laugh.-A.H
eunice • May 24, 2023 at 11:08 am
Every student participating for prom court should have a chance, but not to the point where they are ruining other’s campaigns. Prom court should also be something everyone going to prom should have an opinion on. These opinions are stunted when posters are ripped down. Whether it be rivalry or students wanting a laugh, the overall respect towards prom posters is important. Sadly, some prom campaigns were not very well known since posters were ripped down.
Aside from the social aspect of ripping posters, it creates a bigger mess for the school janitors to clean up.
-Eunice Chung
*Mrs. Vargas, English Period 2
Hawraa Chahine, Mrs. Vargas - Period 2 • May 24, 2023 at 11:08 am
Hearing about these tensions between the candidates and uninvolved students makes me wonder why they make a big fuss about it and what is the point of tearing the papers down, as in what you achieve from it.
There is also an alternative by posting the posters online. Although I understand that not many students are available to technology, we can try and place the posters high where everyone can see and can not reach them to avoid vandalism of the papers. We could also use lamination to prevent the ripping of paper.
Elmer De Leon, Mrs Vargas period 4 • May 24, 2023 at 10:11 am
Many students see this as a challenge where they would use anything they could to prove a point. This article shows why it’s important to respect things because when they ripped the poster it started to cause many problems. Also, it shows how when people worked together to help solve the problem.
k.m.v • May 23, 2023 at 3:18 pm
Its a shame that so many poster are being vandalized and torn down.
Its sad to see the effort that they put into those posters just for them to be vandalized. This artical points out a good point.
Carlos ruano • May 23, 2023 at 3:13 pm
Students should be respectful to each other’s poster. More when they work so hard to design the poster we should not break their poster. Also this article gives a idea to the reader about what is happening in the school.
B.F • May 23, 2023 at 3:13 pm
I agree with this because it’s childish how people are ripping posters. I agree with Ms. Franco and Principal Barragan. That it’s not nice, and how people put so much effort into creating the posters. I will always see posters on the floor or ripped. I don’t like how people want to bring those people down.
the rizzler • May 23, 2023 at 3:12 pm
Students should be respectful to each other’s posters especially since they’ve worked hard on the poster and its design. These prom candidates take their time, effort and sometimes even money to make these posters just for them to get destroyed and vandalized. It is all unnecessary and sad.
N.G • May 22, 2023 at 4:17 pm
Students should be respectful to each other’s posters especially since they’ve worked hard on the poster and its design. This article was also really informative since I was not aware of the situation of posters being vandalized.
Marilyn Uriostegui • May 22, 2023 at 9:58 am
I agree with this because these prom candidates take their time, effort and sometimes even money to make these posters just for them to get destroyed and vandalized.
FA • May 22, 2023 at 9:37 am
I found this article very informative because I’ve noticed posters around the school being vandalized and I never knew what the reason might be, but this article gives me an idea as to what the reason might be behind people vandalizing other’s people posters. -FA
KS • May 22, 2023 at 9:37 am
This article was really informative on what is an occurring issue at our school being poster ripping.
LJ • May 22, 2023 at 9:34 am
People should think twice before doing something that will come with consequences. It was very rude of them to bring others down. Students should have respect for others. I found this article interesting.
SA • May 22, 2023 at 9:32 am
It was all unnecessary and sad. I believe people should have respected each others hard work/creative posters.
A.P. • May 22, 2023 at 9:30 am
It’s honestly sad that people feel the need to take down other candidates’ posters. If this doesn’t stop sooner, we won’t be able to even put up posters in the first place. -A.P.
D.D • May 22, 2023 at 9:30 am
I honestly think that the prom poster problem needs to be resolved before it gets worse and ruins it for other graduating classes to come. -D.D
CG • May 22, 2023 at 9:30 am
Some people just don’t have anything better to do. They are like 16 and 17 and still act like 7 year olds. Congrats to the winners tho! Keep your spirits up people! Hopefully this doesn’t happen again in the future! Fingers crossed!
KM • May 22, 2023 at 9:29 am
I agree with the situation being inappropriate and impolite towards the prom candidates. We should stop the vandalism and leave it as a friendly and fun competition.
-By: KM
J.H • May 22, 2023 at 9:28 am
The prom poster was a problem because people work hard on them.
johan • May 22, 2023 at 9:23 am
The prom poster problems was not good