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Room for change: December 17, 2010 • Volume 8, Issue 4
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Northridge High School • 2901 Northridge Road • Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35406
New bonus period provides additional enrichment, chance to make AYP
Scholar Bowl practices, or time to do Jazz Band or Honor Choir. Our biggest draw is going to be an ACT prep class,” he said. Espy said that students could choose how Isaac Espy, principal, spent Dec. 2-3 in assemblies explaining the new schedule they wanted to spend time. “It’s not going to be a time to hang out arrangement, to be enacted in January, to with your buddies. At first, all students will students. “It’s so easy a caveman could understand be defaulted to study hall. Once we get a bit more settled, we will send out registration it,” he said. He said that the only change to the forms sometime in January and give around three days for students to current schedule was choose a class,” he said. the addition of a bonus The bonus period period. will take place between “We’re going to first and second period, change the way we have namely 9:30-10:05 p.m. school a little bit. We’re Conner Fridley, going to cut eight or ~Isaac Espy, principal senior, wants a solution nine minutes off of all four classes, and those minutes will form a for students who desire more than one way 30-minute bonus period, or a study hall, or to spend their bonus period. “We should have one class on Mondays, whatever you’d like to call it,” he said. He said that the bonus period is the Wednesdays and Fridays, and another one on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It would change solution to making AYP this year. “Whether or not we make AYP is up to things up and people could be a part of more our juniors. A certain percentage of them than one activity,” he said. Espy said that any suggestions for the have to pass the graduation exam in order for us to meet AYP. We haven’t made it for schedule will definitely be considered. “Some people may love this or hate this, the last two years. This bonus period will be used to prepare students for the exam, so but we have to do it. We have to succeed. that students who have passed all parts of Someone once told me to never confuse the graduation exam can use the period for having good intentions and working hard with getting results. And we have to have additional enrichment. “It can be a study hall, or a time to hold results,” he said. anu pandit editor in chief
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photo by andrew lattner Isaac Espy, principal, discusses the new bonus period with sophomores on Friday, Dec. 3. “Some people will love it, and some will hate it, but we have to do it,” he said.
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Bathroom system responds to misused break time alexandra stewart staff writer
is not a manageable number,” he said. “Sometimes they would not return as promised. There you go,” he said. Mary Catherine Vale, junior, said she does not agree with the policy. “I don’t like it; they will only let one or two people go. What if people really have to go to the bathroom, and there is a line just waiting to go to the bathroom with a pass?” she said. Vale said it could help the bathroom situation, but it might cause students not to go to lunch.
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“Come to the bathroom with me! I have to tell you something really important,” said Anna Kate Hughston, junior, as Sara Beth Hartley, junior, decided to go to the restroom. Frustrated, they came back, announcing that you have to have a bathroom pass from the cafeteria to go. Isaac Espy, principal, developed a new policy that one must have a bathroom pass in order to leave the cafeteria. “We were having about 500 students wanting to leave the lunchroom compiled by anu pandit 50 students polled to go the restroom. That
However, lunch is not the only opportunity to go to the bathroom.
“I can run a mile in 6 minutes, I can go to the bathroom in five minutes and still have time to visit my friends and write a letter to my grandmother,” Espy said. He said that students have plenty of time to go between classes. Lane Russell, sophomore, said she has had bad experiences going to the bathroom before class and does not think that there is enough time. “One time, I had math and I had second shift lunch. We had thirty minutes of class time before lunch, and I don’t like going to the bathroom during class because I don’t want to miss anything. So I would go to lunch and then go the bathroom after lunch,” she said. “When the bell rang, I went towards my class to go to go to the bathroom, and I saw my teacher standing by the classroom door waiting for us to comeback in. So I went to the bathroom, and right as I was about to walk into the class, the tardy bell rang. My teacher made me walk all the way back to Mr. Curry’s office and get a pass. I ended up missing a lot more in class, when my teacher could have been nice and just let me in,” she said. Kevin Liew, junior, said that you should go to the bathroom before class. “I think that it [the bathroom policy] makes students more responsible,” he said.
AGENDA
How will you use your bonus period? Grad exam preparation:
25
ACT preparation:
20
Study Hall:
15
Club or Band practice:
14
Other:
16
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“I’m using mine to study for the grad exam, so I can excel.” anna margaret davis, freshman compiled by ellie cauthen 80 students polled
in brief
Closed door provides safety madison frazer staff writer Although some students don’t like that not all doors get opened at lunch, there is a good reason behind some doors are locked. Darrin Spence, dean of students, said it is on purpose because of the number of students. “It channels all students through one door, so it is easier for us to check for IDs and the dress code,” Spence said. Anna Lee Petitt, freshman, said it is hard to get into the lunchroom when you want, and it makes your lunch time shorter. “If they [all doors] were open, we could get in faster and not have so much commotion and pushing that we have now because of only one door being open,” Petitt said.
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