Pep Rally Celebrates Manchester High School Students' Work In Classroom

MANCHESTER, NJ — The marching band played and the cheerleaders cheered as students walked into the auditorium at Manchester Township High School for a pep rally.

This pep rally, however, wasn't about rallying school spirit to support the football team or the girls basketball team. This pep rally was celebrating something different: hard work in the classroom.

Manchester Township High School holds its Academic Pep Rally twice a year, in the fall and in the spring. Students are nominated not based solely on GPA, but on other factors, with the high school staff choosing up to three students per course to celebrate student achievement in three categories: academic excellence, academic momentum and classroom MVP.

Principal Dennis Adams opened the ceremony with encouraging words, praising those who were being honored, and each student was given a certificate by members of the Manchester Township High School chapter of the National Honor Society sending them off to Thanksgiving break on a positive note.