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Every year Wellesley High School has a half day on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Classes are shortened to an effect twenty minutes where vast amounts of learning takes place. The last hour or so of the day is spent with all elven hundred children, as well as faculty, congregating in the lower gym where many students get to lounge on the luxurious gym floor and watch the pep rally preceedings. Wellesley High is notorious for its phenominal education and range of extracurriculars that it offers, which is exemplified through the remarkably creative and well choreographed dance they perform. The senior men also get the opportunity to perform a dance for their peers. This is normally a tradition, however last year the seniors were not able to pull themselves together in an organized fashion, disappointing the rest of the students. "I was pretty angry, and seriously considered walking out in protest" exclaims Lauren Docktor, '09. This year, those performing the dance are being sure that they do not show too much skin or too many chest hairs, in fear of their dance being deemed inappropriate. The seniors on the football team also get special recognition, where a few select players introduce each of the others one at a time, and highlight their most admirable characteristics. Last year, the teams "ladies man" got a particularly raucous appraisal from the audience. On Thanksgiving day, not only the high school students, but the whole Wellesley Community watches the annual Needham vs. Wellesley football game. The Needham/Wellesley Rivalry closely resembles those seen on the frontiers, where family rivalries lasted forever and the reason for the rivalry is by no means discernible. The game is imperative to the survival of every Wellesley student, for a loss can only be met with shame and will haunt the players for years to come. After all is said and done, the football game over, the tears from the losing team shed, the families of Wellesley return home to deal with all of those other trials that Thanksgiving entails such as spending time with friends and family and whatnot.