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High Life Tuesday, December 14, 1999 News Any parents of juniors and se niors who would like to learn more about financial aid for col lege may attend a workshop on Monday, January 10 at 7:00 pm. The snow date is Thursday, January 13. First semester exams will begin on December 15 and will con tinue through December 17. Stu dents will take two exams per day, the first from 8:40 to 10:40 and the second from 11:00 to 1:00. Students will be dismissed after their second exam. These exams will count for 20% of the student’s semester grade in a Students between the ages of 15 and 18 who are interested in serving as a s a Governor’s Page for a month should visit www.governor.state.nc.us/ govoffice/pageprogram/ or call Virgi n ia Sharp at (919) 715-1345. On Thursday, December 9, the band, orchestra, choral groups, and bell ringers from Christ United Methodist Church joined forces in a Musical Ex travaganza to end the millen nium. The concert began with appetizers served at various lo cations in the main building. At 7:15, several groups performed in the Chance-Cousins Audito rium. All of this was followed by dessert in the cafeteria and entertainment provided by the jazz band. The PTSA has launched its Capi tal Campaign and hopes to raise at least half of the $150,000 needed to intall the telecommu nications system. Grimsley par ents are encouraged to donate money to the cause. Checks should be made payable to Grimsley Capital Campaign and sent to P.O. Box 10516, Greens boro, NC 27404-0516. The All-District Band auditions will be held all day on Saturday, January 8 at Southern Guilford High School. All band members are encouraged to audition. The snow date is Saturday, January 15. Veterans Continued from page 1 It is for this reason that the cer emony took place: to honor these men and to remember their sacrifices. Moving from the media center to the main hall, the crowd stood in silence as Reverend Harold Sherill gave an invocation, and then Emily Preyer unveiled the plaque. The plaque, which will be bronze in the near fu ture, is a replica of the original that hangs in the field house. It bears the names of 99 men, all Grimsley students, who fought and fell for this country. Mrs. Teague told these men and women, who graduated in the late thirties and early forties, that Grimsley has not changed too much since they were students. Though the name is different, “the tradition continues,” said Mrs. Teague. Mr. Rucker, however, mentioned some dif ferences between the culture in which he grew up and the world in which today’s Whirlies live. “In this age of cynicism, when patriotism is passe, mo rality suspect, and our chief executive our chief criminal, what different state of affairs existed over half a century ago which propelled this nation’s youth to put their lives on the line?” said Mr. Rucker. Now as students mn through the main hall, rushing to arrive to class on time, they should take a moment to notice the plaque that honors the memory of fellow Whirlies. As the plaque reads, ‘ ‘Greater love hath no man than this-that a man lay down his life forhisfriends,”St.JohnXV.13. These are the people who sacrificed their lives | for ours. To paraphrase Mr. Rucker, ^ they fought the fight, they kept the « faith, what more can we ask of their generation? S Block scheduling Bill Moore and Walker Rucker stand in front of the plaque which honors the Grimsley students w'ho died in World War II. The plaque contains 99 names and hangs in the main hall. Continued from page I The exams for these higher level classes are not taken until the spring. If an IB or AP student takes the higher level class during the first semester, the student has to go through an en tire half a school year without the class and then take the exam. “You don’t want to have a class that you finish in December and are tested on in May. It’s just not good,” says Dr. Kee. A similar problem is posed for classes such as foreign languages. Ms. Inscoe, a Spanish teacher at Grimsley, is upset with the lack of at tention focused on the foreign lan guage department. “You would think that foreign language would be taken into more consideration seeing how it’s essential for acceptance to colleges to know another language,” says Ms. Inscoe. She is upset with the fact that a student may take a foreign language the first semester of one year and then not receive an opportunity to take the next level of that language until the second semester of the next year. In that case, a student would go over a year without the language, which poses the obvious problem of retain ing the information over such a long period of time without it. It is inevitable that there will be high competition to take IB, AP, and for eign languages consecutively and not all students will be lucky enough to be able to. Venetta Johnson, a sopho more, says, “I don’t think we should change to block scheduling because it limits the classes we can take such as AP and IB. Plus, I don’t want to have to look at the same people for almost two hours.” Although many students are in no way excited about the possibility of the schedule, there are a lot of kids looking on the bright side. Daniel Wamiath, a freshman said, “I feel like this [block] would make adjusting to high school harder, but it would also be more interesting and might be kind of fun.” The overall purpose of the system wide schedule is to provide more class opportunities, to create more chances for academic success, and to recog nize the differing needs of different courses and different students. If block is implemented, the first year of running on the modified schedule will be used to determine staffing needs and scheduling con flicts. Until the schools begin the schedule, there is no real way to tell whether or not the block method will achieve what it’s being established to do. There’s no doubt that block will be a difficult change to make, but the Guilford County School System is trying to make the adjustment v/orth it. Block scheduling will help most students in the long run and create problems for some in the be ginning. Bond Continued from page 1 technology goes, this plan has proposed new computers, televisions, and upgraded telephone and alarm systems. The high school projects will be very costly. In fact the school board members are estimating the cost to be around $35 million. “This money will not come out of the pockets of taxpayers,” says Mrs. Frye. This is one of the main reasons the school board proposed this bond. Students at Grimsley are enthusiastic about this new possibility. Andrea Crowch, a freshman says, “ I think it will benefit the school greatly because we really do need more classroom seats.” Joey Cooper, a sophomore says, “ These new advancements are good because they could possibly be an opening for other changes in the future.” Shop. SMOOTHIES 50^off ANY SMOOTHIE GO WHIRLIES! Z146 Lawndale Dr. Greensboro, N.C. 27408 (336)275-3020 2715 Grandview Ave. Greensboro, N.C. 27408 (336) 851-5570 James D. 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