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0DQDJLQJ (GLWRU But there is a flip side to long-term relationships in school.

Are school relationships benign or harmful? According to Brevard Licensed clinical social worker Paul Seitz advises teenagers to County school therapist Christopher King, it depends on a number abstain from dating in high school. of factors: what is the relationship like? If serious, what constitutes "As a teenager, you already have enough problems," Seitz said. a serious relationship and what does the relationship entail?

"By being in a committed relationship, you're just adding on â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe individuals can obtain several positive benefits (e.g., unnecessary things to worry about. Teenagers don't need to worry emotional support during lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ups about making someone else happy. It's and downs, a partner to experience hard enough in these years of your life $FFRUGLQJ WR D VWXG\ newly obtained freedoms and to be happy yourself. Plus relationships privileges that come with age, can, and I've seen it before, affect how GRQH E\ WKH 3RSXODWLRQ perspective taking, further well your school performance is. You 5HVHDUFK &HQWHU JLUOV ZKR IRUP development and refinement of might start worrying so much about UHODWLRQVKLSV KDYH D VLJQLĂ&#x20AC;FDQW social skills, confidence) from how to make this one person happy participating in a healthy long-term that you don't do your homework that GHFOLQH LQ WKHLU RYHUDOO JUDGHV commitment," he said via email. night. And then say you guys get into a FRPSDUHG WR JLUOV ZKR GRQŇ&#x2039;W Juniors Desiree Corbin and fight. You're so sad that you're fighting GDWH 7KLV VXJJHVWV WKDW GDWLQJ Geofrey Pena have been dating for that another night goes by without a year and three months. homework. It's patterns like these that LV QRW PHUHO\ D FRPSHWLQJ WLPH "Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect, so incredibly sweet can complicate a relationship. It's better GHPDQG IRU DOO DGROHVFHQWV EXW to me, and makes me the happiest to hold off on a relationship until you're UDWKHU WKDW WKLV VRFLDO SUHVVXUH WR girl in the world,â&#x20AC;? Corbin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I prepared to juggle multiple things at honestly love him so much, and once."

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RU HYHQ DFWV DV D VRFLDOL]LQJ even more of a boyfriend. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so "A long-term commitment can happy, and I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the have some unhealthy elements DJHQW WR GLVFRXUDJH JLUOV IURP type of guy that most girls want. which can hinder an adolescentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HGXFDWLRQDO SXUVXLWV I am in awe of how lucky I am to social development in the following have gotten him. He is the best, and ways: isolation from current and/or ,OOXVWUDWLRQ 7D\ORU 0RUJDQ prospective friends and family, loss makes me happier than I could ever explain.â&#x20AC;? of identity, loss of confidence and Pena says Corbin has changed his views on dating. withdrawal from sports and/or other extracurricular activities."

"Desiree really made me feel different about relationships," Pena The school administration generally limits its relationships said. "Even though I've always been a long-term commitment kind involvement to policing public displays of affection. Assistant of guy, Desiree really gave that meaning. She's the only girl I ever Principal Jim Melia says that despite frequent warnings, PDA want to be with. I love her. A lot." remains a problem at school.

Dating not only exists in upper classes but in middle school too.

"We're not out to get anybody," he said. "But if you're hugging or The relationships however are much different. kissing in the hallways, the district requires that we carry out action "I think that a guy should never ask a girl out over text message," for it to stop. Hugging in a friendly way, meaning a quick embrace, eighth-grader Max Cormier said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He should ask her in person, is completely acceptable. But hugging in a boyfriend-girlfriend kind but only once you get to know her. I would have to share a couple of way, meaning a lasting tight embrace, is not permitted. Yes, you classes together and ask her to a dance first. Then when we knew can hold hands, that's fine, but don't demonstrate more at school. each other better, I would ask her out. Hopefully, we would be School is not a place to display affection."

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Fifteen-year-old Phoebe Prince had moved to Massachusetts from Ireland and after having a relationship with a high-school footÂ&#x2021; ,Q D UHFHQW VFKRRO EXOO\LQJ ball player, became a target for harassment VWXG\ SHUFHQW RI WKH from jealous classmates. Prince was soon VWXGHQWV VDLG WKH\ KDG EHHQ the object of hatred at her school and was EXOOLHG $QG SHUFHQW RI sent Facebook and text messages calling her WKRVH ZKR ZHUH EXOOLHG VDLG WKH\ H[SHULHQFHG VHYHUH EDG

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A Brevard County freshman said she recently was bullied on School Resource Officer Chuck Landmesser said people someFormspring, a question-and-answer based social media site that times think cyber bullying is not a part of the law, and are surprised can be linked to Facebook. Formspring allows anonymous postings when they are reprimanded for their actions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cyber bullying is which can encourage uncensored posts. considered both stalking and harassment and, if there is enough â&#x20AC;&#x153;People told me that I should kill myself,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They told me documentation, it can get you in trouble both at school and in a that I was useless and that there was no hope for my life. It was criminal court depending on the severity of the issue,â&#x20AC;? Landmessanonymous, so I still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who said all this stuff to meâ&#x20AC;?. er said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is usually a misdemeanor, but if it happens an extreme In 2006, 13-year-old Megan Meier committed suicide after being amount of times with some serious threats, you could be looking at cyber bullied by a classmate and her mother on Myspace. Meier a criminal charge of harassment and stalking.â&#x20AC;? had supposedly started a rumor about her classmate, and the classAssistant Principal Jim Melia said while cyber bullying is not fremateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother suggested embarrassing Meier as a form of revenge. quently reported at West Shore, there are school board policies that The mother and daughter created a fake Myspace account pretend- can effect students who use social sites and cell phones to be hurtful ing to be a teenage boy interested in Meier. They gained her trust to others. and learned her secrets. Meier thought she loved this pretend boy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Depending on the severity of the harassment and the amount of When her virtual boyfriend turned on her and told all of her private warnings the student is given, the punishment in school can lead secrets, Meier killed herself. from anything between a warning with Officer Landmesser and me There have always been bullies, but now the threats are becoming to actual expulsion,â&#x20AC;? he said. more personal and increasingly inescapable. Bullying that begins at The freshman, who asked not to be identified for this story, said school can continue at home via negative text messages and abu- she still hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gotten over being attacked on Facebook and Formsive posts on Facebook. Bullying has also become more public with spring.

Facebook posts for everyone on their friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lists to see. According â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first, it happened every day, then I started getting hate comto www.isafe.org, people who are cyber bullied are twice as likely to ments on Facebook too,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never really coped with it. I commit suicide than those suffering face-to-face abuse. In addition, would just cry, but eventually I got over it. It hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happened in a 42 percent of teenagers say they have been bullied online, according while, but it was awful when it was going on.â&#x20AC;?

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e has been playing on the basketball team the last four years, but that could change next year if a proposed pay-to-play policy is adopted for high school sports. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would be willing to play but I probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to afford to,â&#x20AC;? said the anonymous student. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I might not be able to afford the fee.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â This will be the case of many Brevard Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students come next fall if pay-to-play is passed by the school board. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the only one. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;It may be our only option in the future,â&#x20AC;? Principal Rick Fleming said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a lot of families who cannot afford it.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to lose a lot of players, which is really sad.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â Until this year, Brevardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school district had provided what is called equalization money. It takes $70,000 a year for a school to run a comprehensive athletics program. The equalization money would make up the difference if schools fell short of the $70,000 in gate receipts. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to a crossroads,â&#x20AC;? said Gary Shiffrin, Director of Brevard Association of School Administrators and Merritt Island High School principal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the first year without equalization money. We have to see how it affects our athletic programs and then go from there.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â West Shore has had three major streams for the athletics budget in the past years: gate receipts, money from the district, and equalization money from other high schools, last year having the money from the district and other high schools amounted to $52,000. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that the district isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t paying any money, other high schools wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be paying us either,â&#x20AC;? said Bonnie Bettis, Athletics Director, â&#x20AC;&#x153;their money is drying up too. No oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting nothing.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â When the district stops funding larger schools with football, which previously had funded schools with smaller enrollment sizes and less sports through equalization, those schools will stop funding smaller high schools such as West Shore and Edgewood. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like that we had to cut equalization and district funding because some schools can support themselves while others canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t,â&#x20AC;? said Amy Kneesy, Brevard County School Board vice chairman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our high schools are very different in this county. We just have to

work with that.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â Next year schools in Brevard County have been told theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to operate on receipts alone. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to have a huge impact on transportation and officials,â&#x20AC;? Bettis said. Last year, West Shoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transportation costs totaled $13,000 and officialsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pay cost $10,600. Â Â Â According to a 2009 survey from the National Federation of State High School Association, 33 states have at least one district using pay-to-play. Hernando County, already charges $115 for high school athletes to play one sport, in addition to a general activities fee that all students must pay. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pay-to-play is one of the worst things for us to do. We are against it, but there is going to be some provisions that are needed,â&#x20AC;? Shiffrin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Money is tight all over, so you have to establish priorities. Athletics is low on the list, so it takes a hit.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â Based on a district wide survey of schools conducted a couple of years ago, Shiffrin has concluded that the cost per player could average as much as $250 in Brevard County. The district continues to search for alternative solutions, one being corporate sponsorships. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;We[the school board] are also considering getting with a company that goes out and solicits national corporate sponsorships, like Nike, who would see a lot of exposure and advertising, allowing them to hang up banners and have ads in the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s publications,â&#x20AC;? Shiffrin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Worst case scenario is actually having to cut athletic programs because we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford it, regarding non revenue sports, such as golf, tennis, and swimming.

We would have to look at those sports that bring in the least revenue, and then they would be cut.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â The school district hopes to have this contract settled by the end of the school year, as five companies have already responded with bids, one of these companies being Sports Media, but pay for play remains on the table. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being done all over the nation,â&#x20AC;? Shiffrin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can only imagine itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working, as long as the athletic programs continue to thrive, they continue to implement Pay-to-Play.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â If the district manages to close the deal with a corporate sponsorship it is said that the district would be able to fund all athletic programs in Brevard, until this happens coaches voice their opinions on the pay-to-play fee. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that at our school it will have a minimal response, regarding Pay-to-Play,â&#x20AC;? said varsity basketball coach Tony Riopelle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get too worked up about it. We have great parent in-

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volvement, but if you get into schools in non affluent[economically challenged] areas it might be a bigger issue.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â Contradicting Riopelleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s views, Nicole Anagnostis, junior varsity volleyball coach, is opposed to pay-to-play. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad, learning and playing sports has always been publicly funded for all children and now some students may be excluded from our sports programs simply because their families may not be able to afford this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pay to playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; program,â&#x20AC;? Anagnostis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think its right to make kids pay the debt that we

adults incurred. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make kids pay for adultsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; irresponsibility with money.â&#x20AC;? Â Â Â Whether Brevard County implements the pay-to-play fee, creates a contract with a corporate sponsor, or start cutting non revenue sports is unknown at the current time, schools just have to bid their time and prepare for whatever change it may be. Â Â Â â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a crystal ball,â&#x20AC;? Bettis said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to say whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to come. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really hard to say what the future of athletics is going to be here in Brevard County.â&#x20AC;?

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7ULS WR ,VUDHO DZDNHQV MXQLRUŇ&#x2039;V VSLULWXDO VLGH 0LOOLH 5RVDVFR 6WDII :ULWHU During the beginning of September, every time the news is on, a video showing an airplane crashing into the twin towers is guaranteed to be shown. Every single video we see, was taken on one tragic day in Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. Likewise, in Israel, every time the news is on a video will appear, but the videos shown are from any given day, any given place. When I read of the news that Israel suffered another terrorist attack on Aug. 18, 2011, I realized it might have been just another attack for them, but I couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been on the bus that was shot down.

This summer I experienced Israel for the first time with my age group at the Jewish camp Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been going to for almost 10 years.

Everything in Israel is different, even the way people dress. Because Israel is the Holy Land, I saw a lot of orthodox Jews, who must have their shoulders (sometimes even elbows) and their knees covered at all times. Once the women marry they wear wigs whenever theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in public. Because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a reformed jew, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to follow those rules all the time but to just be in a country where that was the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;dress codeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is the complete opposite of coming from the country where we have nude beaches.

For the three weeks I resided in the Holy Land I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forced to wear clothes that would give me worse, than, soccer tan lines, though somedays I was tempted to sacrifice a good tan line because of the dirty looks I, rather my skin, would get.

One of the places we had to abide by is the Western Wall. This site is so sacred that some travel to Israel just to touch it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customary to write a note to G-d and put it in the cracks of the Western Wall, but in order to get close enough to the wall to touch it, whether on the girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side or the

boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, one must be fully covered. If one has the audacity to believe that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to follow those rules, the workers at the wall will have cloth put over them in order to meet the not-so-bare minimum.

Though Israel thrives on tourism, the people also form their entire lives around the military: physically, metaphorically and emotionally. The gaza 3KRWR 0LOOLH 5RVDVFR strip is where the 6+2:,1* 7+$1.6 3ODFLQJ KHU QRWH LQWR WKH :HVWHUQ :DOO 0LOOLH 5RVDVFR Ă&#x20AC;QGV KHUVHOI EHFRPLQJ PRUH FRQQHFWHG WR KHU -XGLDVP actual fighting takes checkpoints. Two terrorists dressed as place, which is located on the Southwest coast of Israel. But just like Israeli military personnel stepped on the cancer, if one part of your body is infected, bus and began shooting. The checkpoint the whole body responds. Of course Gaza where that happened on the border with was nowhere on our itinerary, but all of Egypt, was on the road I traveled a week the highways we drove on were somehow before. That couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been my bus, my connected to Gaza, considering one can friends- or me.

Highways werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only place that drive the whole vertical length of Israel in came with high security. From when we 10 hours (trust me, we did it).

On those highways, the military checked into El Al airline at JFK Airport the has checkpoints, which are similar in check-in assistants questioned us about our appearance to American tollbooths. At purpose for traveling to Israel in hopes of checkpoints no shekels, the Israeli currency, keeping people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong there, out.

Going into malls or any highly populated are exchanged.

Instead, two military personnel climb area had the level of security we have in onto the bus, with guns capable of taking airports because terrorists first goal is to kill out any threats. If the personnel donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see as many people as possible.

The videos we see once a year for anything suspicious at their rest position at the front of the bus, they proceed to walk commemorating the lives lost on 9/11 are down the aisle pointing their guns at every the same type videos people in Israel are person, looking for anything suspicious. If I forced to witness every day. Israel has been didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice the difference between Israel adjusting to their military-driven country and the states before the first time one of for the whole 63 years of their existence, those guns was pointed at me, I sure felt the after September 11, 2001, our all rainbow and unicorn safe world could possibly be difference then.

The terrorist attack that took place on heading in the same direction.

Aug. 18, 2011 happened at one of those

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“I have to wake up before sunrise to eat breakfast, and then I don’t eat or drink anything for the rest of the day until sunset,” Abdulla said. “That time period is usually between 5:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.”

Abdulla says it’s difficult to go through a whole day without food or water, especially during his visits to the gym and judo lessons.

“There are times when I didn’t wake up to eat or drink but I still went through with it anyway,” he said. “Ever since I started fasting regularly for Ramadan when I was 9 or 10, I have never cheated or taken a sip of water.”

Abdulla says the idea of Ramadan is to give up material pleasures to feel spiritually closer to God. “There are Muslims in Africa that barely have any food depending on the day and they still fast,” he said. “I don’t think I have the right to be complaining.”

Principal Rick Fleming says diversity on campus has increased from previous years and minorities now make up 24 percent of the student population. The school has made accommodations for freshman Nazish Mirza’s religion by allowing her to wear a hijab even though the dress code prohibits head coverings.

“If we see a kid wearing a headdress from day one, we know it’s part of his or her religion and we respect that,” Fleming said.

“That’s different from a kid walking around with a towel on his head

mockingly.”

As Muslims, Mirza and seventh-grader Huda Naas also recite five prayers each day from the Qur’an. They pray at home because it would be too conspicuous an act at school.

“It would be hard to pray at school,” Naas said. “I’ve heard that certain schools allow Muslims time to pray during the day.”

Abdulla says the difficulties of doing the prayers at school lies in their procedure. Muslims must face towards Mecca, a city in Saudi Arabia considered the holiest in Islam, kneel and put their foreheads to the ground during these prayers.

Eighth-grader Leena Quader says it’s not a big deal to pray at home and that she usually has time, but what bothers her is the occasional prejudice.

“Last year in a class, we were learning about all the different religions,” Quader said. “When Islam came up, some boy said that [Muslims] were terrorists and I felt offended by it.”

AP World History teacher Kirk Murphy covers religion in his course and tries to dismantle negative preconceptions towards Muslims when he goes over the religion.

“When we have to talk about Islam, normally I start out with ‘We tend to think of muslims as terrorists, but what percentage of muslims are terrorists?” Murphy said. “They’ll say 10% or 15% and I say ‘You realize you’re talking about 1.5 billion people. Do you really think there’s 15 million terrorists?’ and we can work it down to when they see that just like everything there’s extremists and normal people.”

Murphy says that it’s important to recognize that the school has religious diversity and to be patient and calm with people because of this.

“Every single major religion in the world today, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism has a golden rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto you,” Murphy said.

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Two-lunch schedule makes lines even longer I believe some changes need to be made regarding our lunch schedule. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand why we have two lunches when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both still only 30 minutes long. Honestly, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the point of combining the lunches if it only makes the cafeteria more crowded and makes the lines even longer.

I have second lunch and have to walk all the way from the auditorium building. By the time I get to the cafeteria, the lines are already almost to the door. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really no point in me even waiting in line to buy lunch if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m only going to have five minutes to eat. All Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m asking is for administration to take the time to think of adding five or 10 minutes to our lunches to give students the time needed to eat their food. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tyler Moscrip, junior

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The media center used to be my favorite spot to hang out. If I had time before school, I would go there and find a book, or use the computers to check my email. After school, I would work on homework before swim practice â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on Mondays and Wednesdays, swim doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start until 5:15 p.m., so I have nowhere to go and nothing to do. But now that the library closes at just a few minutes after the last bell rings, I hardly have time, even after power-walking from seventh, to stick a book in the book return slot. Most of the swim team has started going to the Melbourne Library to do homework

before practice, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doubt that there are others who have substituted other libraries for the perfectly good one on campus. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the afternoon traffic the media center is missing out on. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found that because I get another libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books and use another libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s computers, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t visit West Shoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s library in the mornings anymore. It seems to me that because of this seemingly minor time change, we are wasting valuable money and resources on maintaining a library that half of the school has abandoned. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Callie Heuser, junior

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Making athletes pay to play should be a last resort Imagine being a poor high school student. Your parents have fallen on tough times, your grades are less than spectacular and your friends aren’t exactly model citizens. Where do you turn?

Often the answer is athletics. Being on a sports team gives you a sense of belonging, and a family-like atmosphere. And now, that opportunity could disappear because you can’t afford the nearly $300 fee to play sports at your high school.

Tax revenues have fallen and school boards have been forced to make hard choices. Districts — including Brevard — are considering charging kids to play sports. The money has to come from somewhere, but a better option might be to find corporate sponsors.

Let them make our players walking billboards, if necessary,

but to charge athletes from deprived backgrounds is cruel and unacceptable.

West Shore students generally don’t face extreme financial issues and typically don’t get into trouble with the law. But that certainly does not apply to all schools in Brevard County. There are kids at schools who turn to one place and one place only to stay out of severe trouble or even prison, and that place is sports. Their teammates are the right kind of people, and the constant practices and games keep them busy with legal and even enriching activities.

It’s understood that the school board is broke, but charging kids to play sports should not be done. It must be avoided.

There has to be another way.

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)/96 ZRUNV ³ EXW QRW IRU HYHU\RQH 'DQD %URZQ :HE 0DQDJHU At some point in their educational career, every student wishes they could get their governmentmandated education while sitting in a comfy chair at home, eating their favorite foods, and not constricted by specified hours. This is an option for students enrolled in Florida Virtual School, the state’s online public school, which has the motto “any time, any place, any path, any pace.” At first, Florida’s gradual movement toward online schools--represented by a new mandate requiring all high school students to take at least one online class before they graduate--might seem like a good thing. However, online classes have unique demands that not all students can meet.

At Florida Virtual School, students have a “pace chart” that shows which lessons they need to complete each week, but the pace chart doesn’t have a hard deadline like those in regular schools, where students must turn assignments in or they will lose points. This absence of deadlines may seem inviting to students, as it allows them to have a more flexible schedule. However, this structure also requires self-discipline from the student to set and keep to their own deadlines--it can be more difficult to stick to self-imposed deadlines because there’s no teacher or boss to hand out punishments. Students’ parents may be able to keep them on task, but this requires a high amount of parent involvement and can be difficult for parents because classwork occurs on the computer--not all parents can easily distinguish their child typing an essay from their child typing a new Facebook status. Unless students are highly self-disciplined, online classes can drag on and take longer than the year they are supposed to, extending students’ time in high school. This can be a particular problem in AP classes because the AP exam schedule isn’t flexible: the exams must be taken in May. This problem could be averted by requiring students to do coursework in school buildings, but this would fail to meet the state’s primary goal in transitioning to online courses: to save money on maintenance of school buildings.

Online schooling is also inadequate for some subjects. In FLVS’s Latin I course, the students may only speak Latin once a month, in the monthly phone call with their instructor. While there are files in the Latin lessons that allow the students to hear the correct pronunciation of the word, students may not use this feature frequently, and students’ pronunciation will still be affected because they do not get feedback and practice every day. Due to this gap in pronunciation, students who take online language classes may have trouble transitioning into their brick-and-mortar counterparts.

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Online education can be a powerful tool, but it may not fit everyone, just as traditional schooling doesn’t work for everyone.

A mandate that every student must take an online class before they graduate isn’t a bad idea--trying out different forms of schooling may benefit students by giving them a chance to discover their preferences. However, both online and traditional schooling should be offered to students so that they can find a mixture that works for them.

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Bring it up to the average West Shore student however, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re far more likely to hear about Harry Potter than Tom Brady.

I came to West Shore in ninth grade, following the two years I spent at Hoover Middle School, and I experienced a far bigger culture shock than I expected. For starters, sports fits in well after academics and the arts in a West Shore studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life.

At Hoover, all I ever talked about was sports. In science class, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t protons and neutrons it was touchdowns and slam dunks. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Mendel, it was Manning.

In geography, Montana wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a state, it was Joe Montana, the Hall of Fame quarterback. Griffin wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Gryffindor it was Blake Griffin, the basketball prodigy.

Here at West Shore, all of that is different. Arguably, the easiest person to talk about sports with is my newspaper teacher.

I have to slow down my sports obsession here, and while I can, and frankly do, talk sports to anyone and everyone, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re constantly asking â&#x20AC;&#x153;who?â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;what?â&#x20AC;?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not asking for a mass epiphany, but please can someone know that when I say MJ, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Michael Jordan not Michael Jackson?

From here on out, I am changing the West Shore athletics experience. As smart as you people are, it stuns me how little you know about sports.

I will continue to talk your ear off, and by the time I graduate in three years, this school and its inhabitants will be competent in something new â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the wide world of sports.

And yes, I probably can tell you who won nearly any game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ever. And you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

But I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold a grudge. I love talking sports to West Shore students, it makes me feel like I know something that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, which is fairly rare.

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Priester accepted the job at the request of her close friend, Nicole Anagnostis, the former varsity volleyball coach. Having coached volleyball at both a high school and a competitive club level, Priester has more than 19 years of coaching experience under her belt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve coached very successful, talented teams in the past and I found the opportunity to coach at West Shore a new challenge,â&#x20AC;?

Priester said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To bring a losing program to success is an exciting coaching endeavor.â&#x20AC;? &2$&+,1* Ň&#x160;(0 83 9ROOH\EDOO &RDFK %RQQLH 3ULHVWHU LQVSLUHV KHU WHDP DW SUDFWLFH Priesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upbeat personality is reflected in her coaching style, which demands a positive â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel that with all of the changes and progress weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made this attitude, enthusiasm on the court and a love for the game. She has season, we have become a force to be reckoned with,â&#x20AC;? junior Tess also made some changes to the team line-up by switching positions Sheets said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coaches of other teams are on edge right now and are of the returning players, as well as incorporating incoming varsity getting ready for when we play them again.â&#x20AC;? players.

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Priesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practices incorporate several different drills and strategies that are designed to make the players more versatile and efficient on the court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look for consistent, effective effort on every play, both on offense and defense,â&#x20AC;? Priester said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest focus defensively is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no-ball-falls-near-meâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attitude while the offensive focus is on smart and varied attack.â&#x20AC;?

Junior Alyssa Johnson says the variey of drills the team does at practice covers everything they need to know about playing effective volleyball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One drill that has really helped the team is that coach makes every player serve one by one; and if [one person] misses, the whole team has to start over,â&#x20AC;? Johnson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really think it has helped everyone, especially in games, because the majority of our serves in a game are aces, or pretty tough serves.â&#x20AC;?

Teamwork is also heavily emphasized as it is considered the most crucial component in the process of building a finely honed and successful team. Priester has held many team bonding activities including a lock-in at the West Shore gym, a Serv-a-Thon fundraiser, and the classic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue vs. Whiteâ&#x20AC;? game which split the team in half to scrimmage each other.

The losing side then had to treat the winners to ice cream. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had more team bonding activities that have brought us closer,â&#x20AC;? Sheets said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The Blue vs. White game] brought the whole team together and really got us pumped for the season. It let us see where our strengths and weaknesses were when playing an actual match. And having the bet made it all the more competitive.â&#x20AC;?

The volleyball teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noticeable improvement, reflected in a 6-1 district record, is the result of Priesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coaching. Only seven district games into the season, the Lady Wildcats have already marked the 2011 season as the most successful one in school history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone has more intensity on the court,â&#x20AC;? junior Amanda Farthing said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are all excited to be on the court and we are a better team because of this attitude.â&#x20AC;?

Priester not only has coached her team to play with intensity on the court, but has taught them to have a passion for the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped us very much,â&#x20AC;? freshman Taylor Kelly said.

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Priesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectations for the team are not only to have a winning season, but to bring the intensity that the Lady Wildcats have proven themselves capable of to every game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I challenge our team to leave it on the court every time we play,â&#x20AC;? Priester said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether we win or lose.â&#x20AC;?

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0DGGLH 'LPRQG 6WDII ZULWHU With racial relations being second nature today, it is hard to imagine a time when schools were segregated and racial prejudice was taught from an early age. We often hear about how much things have changed, but most people don’t really think about what life was like before civil rights. People don’t consider how the dynamics of social classes have changed over the last couple decades, but this movie proves how far things have come.

“The Help” is an eye-opening film that takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s Civil Rights era. The film opens up with Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone) interviewing Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) about her life as a maid. After posing a series of questions about her day-to-day life, Skeeter asks “What is it like raising the 7KH +HOS Director: Tate Taylor white babies, when 'UHDPZRUNV Cast: Emma Stone, your baby is at home Viola Davis, and Octavia without you?” Clark Spencer Rated PG-13 doesn’t answer and the story of how an unlikely pair comes together is told.

Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan has just returned to her home town after graduating from the University of Mississippi, to discover that her childhood friends have all become housewives.

Skeeter, however, has dreams of becoming a writer, confusing both her friends and her family who want her to be married and having babies. Skeeter applies for a job at the local newspaper and is hired to take over the cleaning section, but unfortunately, Skeeter knows nothing about cleaning. Wanting to write a good article to advance her career, she asks her friend if she can use her maid, Aibileen Clark as her guide to house cleaning.

As this friendship between Skeeter and Aibileen is progressing, the Civil Rights movement reaches its height. Aibileen and Skeeter join forces to tell the stories of many maids and how they are treated in Jackson. After the book becomes a hit, the people of Jackson, including Skeeter, Aibileen and queen bee Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard) must face the consequences of their actions.

“The Help” forces the audience to laugh, cry and most importantly, to think. The film has an excellent script that entices the audience to consider how far racial relations has come along in this day and age.

Howard shines as the racist antagonist whose cruelty is highlighted in a scene where she forces her maid to use an outhouse in her backyard, despite the tornado and downpour going on outside claiming that “colored people carry different bacteria” as an excuse

for not letting the maid use her toilet. The stories of the different maids was tear-jerking, especially when one maid was beaten for stealing a ring she pawned off to put her child through college. All the other maids watched their friend getting beaten with a stick for taking a ring that was forgotten behind the couch.

Many teenagers might not be interested in a movie like this based on the commercials because it seems like a “mom” movie, but in reality it has a huge effect on our history as a country. People would like to brush away our nation’s history of racism, but movies like “The Help” remind us what the past is like, so we aren’t doomed to repeat it.

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McKinnon on two of the songs on the album Overall, “Dead Throne” is darker and more depressing that are bouncier than what Prada fans might be used to. The songs than previous albums, although it ends on a less bitter note with also follow a more verse-chorus-type structure, unlike the previous “Holdfast”, a departure move for The Devil Wears Prada’s habit of three albums. ending with the heaviest and angriest track. Though the band has On some of the heavier songs, vocalist Mike Hranica collaborates taken on new lyrical themes and a heavier style of music, “Dead both lyrically and vocally with Tim Lambesis, vocalist of metalcore Throne” undeniably holds to the music that has built The Devil outfit As I Lay Dying. These songs are more aggressive and relent- Wears Prada such a strong fan base over the past few years.

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Cast: Matt Damon, Kate together to transform his somewhat unoriginal At that point, Dr. Cheever enlists the aid of Dr. Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth vision into reality. Major roles are played by Erin Mears (Winslet), who surprisingly, actually Paltrow, Lawrence Fishburne Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Kate adds a human perspective to the story line when Winslet and Lawrence Fishburne, all of who she is sent out to investigate the spread and bring Scott Z. Burnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; script to life with decades symptoms of the virus. of practice under their belts.

Although Mitch is meant to be the central character, he is quickly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contagionâ&#x20AC;? begins with a single cough heard through the pitch overshadowed by Alan Krumwiede (Law) who is a crass and dark, setting the permanent suspense that remains for the next stubborn blogger based in San Francisco. Alan alone brings the only 105 minutes. That one cough is given by Beth Emhoff, (Paltrow) doses of humor that this movie provides as he researches the killer an unfaithful wife who has just come back to her husband Mitch disease on his own, getting himself into some unintentional trouble.

(Damon) in Minneapolis after a business trip to Hong Kong, where Overall the movie is just another disaster movie that leads to a she contracts the deadly virus at its very creation. great majority of mankind dying. 2012 anyone?

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