l o o h c S h g i H p Gallu
elcome to Gallup High! I hope this piece gives you some positive insight into your upcoming experience and helps you through it. We’re all here for you and hope you make the most of your time at GHS. Once a Bengal, always a Bengal!
What to Expect:
Expect to be periodically overwhelmed. It happens to all of us. Use those moments in high school to build your time management skills. You will most likely be juggling your school work, activities, work, family, and friends, and more in a very short time span. It’s up to you to decide what will be in your best interest. I realize that’s a dangerous statement coming from a teacher, so I add this: that decision should be based in the long-term. It’s nice to hang out with friends and skip the homework; it’s less nice to be repeating freshman classes as a senior and having a bunch of ninth graders asking you what went wrong.
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Expect teachers to hold you to a higher standard. This may look different from teacher to teacher and class to class. Your teachers want you to learn and to grow, and they are there to help you in that process. One of the nicest things they can do in that process is push you to keep going, whether you like it or not. Just like riding a bike, the training wheels must come off eventually. You may not have teachers who go over homework every day, give you time to read in class, or hand you very direct clues to answers. These teachers will still expect you to ride that bike, though, and get there on your own. Expect to be part of the community. You may spend most of your time sequestered at a lunch table in the corner with your friends, but you’re still a Bengal. I won’t give you a line about how “high school is the greatest time of your life” or “the friends you make in high school last forever” because I really don’t believe those. I do believe, however, that you should expect to be shaped by this experience. I also believe, from my own (lack of) participation in high school, that being involved has more benefits than detriments, socially and academically. So, participate in school events. Go to games. Join a club.
