For the past three weeks, students have been participating in a new trend affecting Torrance High. Students are going to stores and buying confetti-filled eggs and filling them with other things, such as powder, shaving cream, and glitter, then bringing them to school and smashing them on other students’ heads!
Some say this is becoming a trend because Easter is coming up, while some say it’s the popular Mexican-American tradition of ‘cascarones’, but others believe it’s just because kids want to vandalize. An anonymous sophomore student says, “It makes such a mess in the halls. Just imagine the person who got egged; their hair, clothes, backpack, especially their face is just a mess.” These eggs have become a safety hazard for students if it were to get in their eyes or mouth, as it could cause serious harm. Unfortunately, that’s the least of the egger’s worries. They want an egg because it is seen as funny by cracking a joke. However, the only thing cracking here is the eggs.
Surprisingly, this trend is something bigger than just at Torrance High as multiple local parks and festivals all around America have banned these ‘cascarones’ because of the excessive amount, wanting to keep public spaces clean and safe for the environment. On Tartar News, an ASB member addressed this issue, “Students who have or are throwing confetti eggs will receive campus clean up detention.” In the case of our school, thought must be put for the custodial staff as the paper confetti, glitter, powder, shaving cream, and whatever else students want to insert into these eggs are difficult to completely clean and dispose of.
An Anonymous Junior explains, “This egging can be funny but not always. It makes me feel like my friends are going to get me.” This new trend of making students paranoid is not in the best interest of the students, not knowing if they were going to go home powdered, glittered, or looking like a walking confetti cannon. The ‘joke’ is quickly spreading, so much so that it’s making more and more people go buy eggs and create these mess-making bombs.
What used to be a vibrant cultural tradition has escalated to a polarizing campus normalcy, leaving the halls covered worse than found. Leaving the administrators on high alert, those found involved have been receiving detentions. This trend has resulted in turning a festive activity into a punishable misdemeanor. So remember the next time you go to school, and someone offers you a nice ‘big hug’, check their hands and pockets for eggs because luck is good, but clean halls are better. Let’s keep this out of school.
