The Picador A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS FOR THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY
Volume 9, Issue 10
May 2, 2014
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By Eliana Mallory ’14
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A Title Does Not Define Who You Are There will be many of you reading this article that are on cloud nine. Your name was called at the Leadership Chapel, there were cheers and claps for you, and you feel empowered to be the best leader you can be here at Holderness.
clearing your lunch table, or taking any other kind of positive initiative--that’s what leadership is.
To those recently elected leaders: congratulations. Your It has become cliché to hear leadership selection is well people say “Everyone is a deserved and recognizes the leader at Holderness.” It is compromises and sacrifices cliché, but it is also the truth. you have made for the good of Everyone has the opportunity the community--the long hours There will also be many of you to be a leader in our commuin steamy pantry, the many that are disappointed and feel nity, because leadership not mornings of early cleaning in like you have hit rock bottom. only lies with the president of Schoolhouse, and the gracious You were not recognized or the school but also in small, outreach to the new members acknowledge for all that you day-to-day actions. Whether it of our community. do. is offering to do a dinner job, But don’t get too comfortable But don’t despair; life goes on picking up a piece of trash on and content; the hard work has the path, not cutting the Quad, and a title does not have to only begun. You will soon find making sure your whole dorm define who you are or what yourself facing new chalyou do. In the real world, out- is present for dorm night, saylenges, pressures, and deciside of the Holderness bubble, ing “hi” to passing people,
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Are AP Exams Worth the Money? classes in college. Here at Holderness, however, we are With only three days before strongly encouraged by the AP the start of AP exams, many teachers not to take AP classes students are doing a lot of prep just because they will help us work in class. Outside of in college or because we’ve classes, and sometimes in heard they are easy courses. them, however, there has been Instead, teachers want us to talk about why the exams are take classes because we are mandatory. genuinely interested in them and will be challenged by the According to the AP College Board website, taking an AP demanding assignments. course and the corresponding Perry Kurker-Mraz has his exam help a student stand out own opinion. “I believe in the in the college admission procconcept of taking college level ess and possibly earn college courses in high school,” he credit. Some students are also says. “For those who face the able to skip introductory challenge of paying for a colBy Celeste Holland ’14
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being a leader is often accompanied by a big fancy title. Holderness is different, and it teaches us that a title does not necessarily define one’s leadership abilities.
lege education out of pocket or by taking out loans, it is a great opportunity to proactively alleviate some of that debt. That being said, the fact that the AP test costs money could make it inaccessible to those who need its benefit the most. “As well, if there is such a possibility as offering a course at two different levels (AP and the conventional level), then there is a very important question to ask: why allow high schools to offer classes that aren't advanced? If our educational system can handle it,