If you play a sport at BHS you have to prove you’re passing your classes with the Blue Form. Now, students in theater productions have to prove it too using the new “Pink Form”.

Avery Shearer ‘27 is a part of the upcoming production of one-act plays.

“I’ll be honest, I haven’t managed to fill one out yet,” Shearer said, “I think I probably should be putting more effort into complying with them.”

As Shearer put it, “The pink forms are essentially blue forms, but for the drama program.”

The Blue Form has been around for years. If a student-athlete was failing a class, the athletic department required them to get signatures from their teachers noting their current grade, missing assignments and their plan to catch up. Last year in an attempt to be “more equitable”, this “Blue Form” policy was expanded to include not only athletes that were failing, but all students.

Principal Sabrina Westdijk said the Pink Form began when a staff member questioned whether it was equitable that students in theater didn’t have to complete a Blue Form.

“I did think that a compelling case was made for there being similarities between the athletics and theatre programs that merited piloting this approach,” Westdijk said.

BHS Drama Program Director Peter Bowley said that drama is different from athletics due to the fact that months of student work leads to a single weekend of performances. This could be problematic because according to the official Blue/Red Form Procedure: “student-athletes may be required to sit out of competitions for one week when deemed ineligible.”

“It would be a more severe consequence for a student to be barred from performing,” Bowley said. “Which isn’t to say that this would never happen, but I see it as an absolute last resort.”

While there are some potential issues, Bowley said the idea makes a lot of sense. Bowley was involved in the creation of the form, in fact, he chose the color pink for the form because he thought it “represents the vibes of our program”.

“I think the Pink Forms make a lot of sense and help to establish Drama as an important program at BHS,” Bowley said. “I haven’t had any students express a strong aversion to the forms, but we also haven’t had as many students commit to them as we would like to see.”

“Compliance is low,” Shearer said. “but I think generally the pink forms are probably reasonable to be doing.”