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By Wenqi Feng
Early dismissal or late arrival? This, along with everything else that involves missing school, is a much debated topic among students and faculty, even though there are only a few half-days every year.
Teachers and parents advocate late arrival because it supposedly gives three hours of much needed sleep to exhausted students and simultaneously prevents the public mayhem that would undoubtedly ensue from releasing students early in the afternoon.
What these adults do not realize is that students would just use these three extra morning hours as an excuse to stay up three hours later the night before. Besides, who says we can only sleep in the morning? I have enjoyed some of my greatest naps in the afternoon.
By Elissa Spinner
It’s six in the morning, and a loud, obnoxious, ring splits through the peaceful silence of your room. You groan, swear at your alarm clock, and hit the blessed snooze button.
This cycle continues five times until you realize you have only ten minutes to gather your things, finish last night’s homework, grab some breakfast, and dash to the bus. This is the morning routine of many Newton South students.
Every six weeks or so, this rushed routine is broken by a Professional Development Day. For students, this has traditionally meant getting out of school early. Now, it means coming to school late.
What’s better than sleeping in until 11 and only having three easy classes to breeze through before going home? Probably a lot, but as far as the school week goes, this is a pretty good deal. Read more »
By Alice Lee
What would motivate someone to eat a radish? There are two possibilities.
One is an extrinsic motivation – encouragement from external factors, such as a potential reward or a threat of punishment. Imagine the Average Joe in the cafeteria. If he knows that the National Radish Association of America will send him twenty dollars for every radish he eats, he will gladly partake of one.
The other possibility is an intrinsic motivation, or an internal intent uninfluenced by outside factors. Think now of Scarlett O’Hara, heroine of novel-turned-movie Gone With the Wind. Embittered and left destitute by the Civil War, she vows never to go hungry again. Fueled by this thought as well as her empty stomach, she willingly chokes down a radish.
But what do (nonexistent) Radish Associations and Scarlett O’Hara have to do with us? Read more »
By Garth Brody
After reading the local school papers, as is my habit on slow, sultry Tuesday mornings, I found, through some really crackerjack reporting (great job “Music gets lost in the mix”), that music these days is done on the computer machine!
Gosh, call me nostalgic, but it ain’t music until five men in identical suits play it in a studio owned by either Columbia or Brunswick Records; then I’ll pay my sixpence and take it home for a whirl on my Victrola. From what I hear, any old Richard Roe from Duluth to Toledo can hop on his wirebox and clickety-clack – out zaps a record, pressed for sale. They don’t even need suits for pete’s sake. Read more »
By Ben Seifer
It’s a routine Wednesday. You’re sitting in math class and the teacher begins drawing abstract and mystifying figures on the board, explaining as she goes along. After some time, the teacher stands aside and begins the lesson as students furiously take notes.
Before moving on to the next objective, the teacher asks, “Are there any questions?” Students instinctively nod their heads; a couple may even say “no,” but one student responds with a question: “Why do we need to know this?”
I’ve heard this line since middle school and could never quite understand why those particular students continued to ask that same question, knowing that the teacher would never have an answer for them and that they would have to learn the material anyway. Almost three long years after graduating middle school, I have come to understand why they ask this question. Read more »
By Elissa Spinner
It’s six in the morning, and a loud, obnoxious, ring splits through the peaceful silence of your room. You groan, swear at your alarm clock, and hit the blessed snooze button.
This cycle continues five times until you realize you have only ten minutes to gather your things, finish last night’s homework, grab some breakfast, and dash to the bus. This is the morning routine of many Newton South students.
Every six weeks or so, this rushed routine is broken by a Professional Development Day. For students, this has traditionally meant getting out of school early. Now, it means coming to school late.
What’s better than sleeping in until 11 and only having three easy classes to breeze through before going home? Probably a lot, but as far as the school week goes, this is a pretty good deal. Read more »
By Mel Fineman
When I was little and my dad took me to the grocery store, we would leave with a cart filled to the brim with Hostess Cup Cakes, pudding, cheese puffs, and other sugary treats. The paper bags we toted home after these trips were the epitome of junk food.
But the truth is, despite spending loads of money on this food, my siblings and I never ate very much of it. The fresh-from-the-store Yodels remained sealed in their packages until that space was needed and cleared for the Annie’s Macaroni-and-Cheese that my family actually consumed. Read more »
