I h, SC students are but a few of the 54 middle schoolers
participating as stadeat-teacber cadets. Fraas left to
right, they are (back raw): Charles Bowman. Mark
Lattimore. Dawn Brawn. SheUtha Earley. Emott
Pettua, and Anita Cherry; and (front row): GeOff
Wall work. Jermaine Collins. Jeremy Ardrey, Tonya
Nahera, and Tara Heath. ^
By Audrey C. Ladato '
»- Post Staff Writer
“ Some students ^dream ef taking
:*^j£pro»pect. A^ugh Mid
Jdauhed and had some surprising
eiiecis. ^ t
: '■ Z April 2* was Student-Teacher
: •: yadet Day at Spaugh, the school’s
. i way of celebrating North Carolina
5 -Youth Week. Students, selected well
”in advance, took on the role of
f^ea ch^s, counselor^ principal, ^and
Z The students learned that teach
ing looks different hem the front of
-«he classroom, and that being a
—principal carries, a. lot ef response
rbiUty. Here are the commits of
- DAWN BROWN, and eighth gract
and president of the Student
Council, liked the experience. “I
enjoyed being principal. I felt It was
«•* good experience for a day. I oh
/^served each teacher in action,
handled some disciplinary pro
—hlems, and conducted a teachers’
“ MARK LATTTMORE was the
“2hfted, “It was fun to a day but*I
w don’t think I’d want to do it for a
r: full-time occupation. It might be fun
“for about a week, hot there are a lot
-of hassles an assistant principal has
£U> put up with, such as discipline
“problems, handling a lot of money,
and being everywhere at once.”
Z ELLIOTT PETTOS JR., an eighth
Z grader, spent the day as a coun
selor. ‘It was weird, handling
-other people’s problems,” he de
—clared. ”1 couldn’t do that an the
—time.” _ v ^ -
grade student, taught social *stu
JERMAINE COLLING8 taught
eighth grade chemistry. Himsalf a
seventh grader, the day's experi
ence gave Collins second thoughts
about Mg future, “I was thinking
about becoming a teacher, but I’m
not sure now. It was too rough," be
admitted.
JEREMY AUDREY agreed. The
sixth grader taught chorus. "It was
rou#>. They talked too loud, es
SHEUTHA T. EARLEY, normal
ly an eighth grade student, was
head secretary. “It was hard work,"
she remarked. "1 never knew there
were so many parents and stu
dents coining in and people bother
ing you. I wouldn’t mind being a
secretary because it keeps you busy
and I like to he busy."
TONY fcfABERS, seventh grader
tumed i»wgn»g» arts teacher, com
plained about student behavior. “I
didn’t like the third and fourth
period classes. They started talk
ing as soon as the real teacher left,”
she revealed. Because of her stu
dents’ behavior, she didn’t follow
through on her total lesson plan,
“but I got to do most of it," she
noted.'
TARA HEATH, counselor for the
day, was not thrilled with the
experience. The eighth grader re
marked, "It was okay, but it was
boring because I didn’t tike lis
tening to problems. I didn’t know
what to tell them.”
CHARLES BOWMAN, seventh
grade student, was a language prts,
social studies, literature and drama
teacher. "It went okay, but! I
wouldn’t want to teach as an occu
pation because it has more respon
sibly than I thought it had,” be
commented. “Some students don’t
want to hsten t^pou,” be added.
GEOFF WALLWORK, from the
seventh grade, was a math teach
er. “Although we didri’t have full
authority, I thought it was fun,
interesting, and different,” he
stated. “I wouldn’t want to do this
when I grow up,” he remarked, but
it wasn’t the day’s experience that
influenced him. “I hadn’t planned on
doing it, and I wouldn’t like it,” he
explained.
Latt~ — Festival Will
--ay. May 19 .
The Latta Outdoors Festival is
scheduled for &mday, May 10, 11
»-m. to 6 p.m. at Latta Planta
tion Park, a 760-acre nature pre
serve on tatanri Lake
about 10 miles north of Charlotte off
Beatties Ford Rd.
A combination of last year's two
events, “Naturefest” and “Canoe
Weekend,” the festival features a
wide variety of land and water
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ment lines displayed by Apex
Canoe and Kayak Co., the Great
Outdoor Provision Co., Alanby’s,
and BAM Cydery.
Canoe races and guided hikes are
also scheduled for the event. 1
Several wildlife conservation
groups will be on hand - Felici
dades Wildlife Foundation and the
Carolina Raptor Center will both
have demonstrations and live wild
life on display H M Eddy will be a
at the event with his timber wolf,
Tara. . aq
For more information about the
Latta Outdoors Festival, call -'
875-13M.
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