There’s not much you can argue about Beethoven. The great composer, although famously revered by Schroeder from the “Peanuts” cartoon, has been dead for 200 years.

But for some reason, several juniors have managed to create a school-wide western showdown over a guy who has been pushing daisies since 1827.

There were other song choices on the ballot, after all. And if the students who are complaining about “Beethoven’s 5th Symphony” did not want the classic, they could have just voted differently.

For those who do not like the new version of the song, it is not that big of a deal. It is just a fun tune for assemblies.

Unfortunately, some students clearly never learned as children the difference between a glass of water and a flash flood.

The uproar around the school has not made an impressive “us against the man” stand, but instead looks like an attention-grabbing stunt.

And whom would that western showdown be against anyways?

If those juniors who are complaining and insulting StuGo’s choices believe that the student government is “the one responsible” for this heinous crime, then they are very wrong.

StuGo is not Perry’s version of Panem’s Capitol; they are a group of fellow classmates selected by the student body to help make the connection between administration and everyone else.

When a student says something demeaning at school or on Twitter regarding StuGo, they are insulting the people that they voted to represent them. And worst of all, these representatives are fellow students.

“I feel like that the student body forgets that when they say things negative about student government, they’re saying things negative about their friends,” says StuGo vice president Lester Nnagbo.

“What the juniors did by turning their backs sent a negative example for their underclassmen,” president Lindsay Heffron said. “I think that that’s something that the older students need to keep in mind that when they do something like that, they’re telling the sophomores and freshman that it’s okay to boo and to turn their backs on people.”

This “rebellion” does not look brave, impressive, or even funny. And sadly, in the process, they are not taking down “the man,” but instead, are hurting themselves and their fellow students.

Beethoven would not be pleased.