Page Four
High Life
November 21, 1966
Substitute Teachers Face
Problems In Teaching
BY JAN HUNTER
Scene is a high school classroom with a substitute teacher,
two traffic squad members, two show-offs, serious student, and
other students. The time is ten seconds after the ringing of
the tardy beU.
Teacher: Class, don’t say another word. The bell has rung.
Sit down and be quiet.”
The stunned class members look
at the teacher with disgust. In
walk two traffic squad members.
Teacher; “What’re your names?
You are late.”
First squad member: “We’re on
the traffic squad.”
Teacher: “I don’t care anything
abdut that, Why’re you late?”
Class laughs at teacher.
Second squad member; “Like
he said, we’re on the squad. We
patrol the halls and we can be
late.”
Teacher: “Well, I’ll let you by
this time. Get to your seats,
quickly. Hush class. Open your
books to page 105 and do exer
cises 1-89 on the following five
pages. This is to be due at the
end of the period for a test
grade."
Serious student raises hand
and says; “But we haven’t taken
up that material yet. We can’t . .”
Teacher interrupting; “QUIET.
In my day students knew when to
speak and when to be respectful
of their elders.”
Suddenly after much whisper
ing, 10 boys get out of their
seats and walk to the pencil
sharpener. Class laughs.
Teacher; “QUIET. QUIET, do
you hear me?” I’ve never seen
such rudeness. Thank goodness
I’m not vour teacher all the
time.”
First show-off at his seat blow
ing a balloon says; “Thanks good
ness.”
Class laughs.
Teacher: “Sit down NOW. Get
back to work.”
Second show-off at pencil
sharpener suddenly says: Don’t
anyone move. Stop where you are.
I lost one of my contact lens.”
The next 10 minutes are taken
up by all the class members, plus
the substitute teacher, groping
dramatically for the lost lens.
All at once the second show-
off yells: “I found it. I’ve found
it.”
Teacher: “Well, I hope it’s not
broken. Get to work class.”
Second show-off holding out
hand says: “Oh it’s all right;
fortunately I found it in time.
I’ll go to the bathroom and put
it in.”
He leaves the room while the
class is in an uproar. Everyone
but the teacher knows the student
doesn’t wear contact lens.
Student raises his hand and
asks: “What if we don’t under
stand how to do some of the 89
exercises?”
Teacher :“Get out. I’ll not have
you in here disrupting the class
asking assinine questions. Go to
the office.”
Same student: “All right. I’ll
leave gladly, bpt I’m certainly
not going to the office. All I did
was ask a serious question. I’m
going to the grove and SMOKE.”
As he leaves the room so do
the two traffic squad members
as it is now one minute till the
end of class.
The scene ends as 28 pupils
throw their papers upon the sub
stitute teacher now perched upon
the window ledge.
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Traffic Squad Overhear
Much of School’s Gossip
BY WOODY GRIFFIN
Being a member of the traffic squad, daily I see and hear
several hundred of Grimsley’s students as they pass by. So it’s
not unusual that I’m a witness to many interesting things that
happen.
Take the cae of the two girls who were talking about a recent
male graduate of Grimsley The conversation goes like this:
“Guess who’s coming home
ORIGINAL WHIRLIBIRD
In the previous issue of
HIGH LIFE an article on
the Whirlibird and if s origin
told of the first Whirlibird
as a mascot. In the above
picture we see the original
Whirlibird as depicted by the
Whirligig Staff of 1955-56.
The original idea of the
Whirlibird came from Chic
Forbes, a member of the
Whirligig staff. Miss Virginia
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fact that although Los Con-
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with a live mascot, the idea
was the creation of Chic
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“Who?”
“It’s . . . it’s . . . it’s him. Can
you believe it?”
“You’ve got to be kidding. I’ve
got to go and tell all the girls.”
As they walk away, one seems
to be In a trance, while the other
is doing cartwheels down the
sidewalk.
Grades Discussed
, Some of the most common sub
jects talked about are homework,
tests, and teachers. Two students,
walking to first period on that
fateful morning when report cards
were handed out, are talking
about grades.
“That teacher kept me off hon
or roll. If she had given me a
C, I would have had a 3.0 aver
age.” '
“Well what was your average
in her class?”
“A 33, but that’s not important.
I thought she’d pass me, and it’s
all because of her. My
are going to kill me.”
parents
Cherry Bombs During Break
It’s about II o’clock, and the
bell ending break has just rung.
Suddenly there’s a loud explosion.
This means one of two things.
Either someone’s experiment in
chemistry didn’t come off or
someone has just gotten a year’s
supply of cherry bombs from
Ocean Drive, which is usually
the case.
Rainy days always prove to be
interesting in one way or an
other. It’s during these times
when the sidewalks fill up with
water, and everybody ends up
wringing out their socks and pour^-
ing water out of their shoes. Be
ing a few minutes late to class
on these days is usually granted
by the teachers. But there’s al
ways that guy who comes in 20
minutes late and gives the excuse,
“But it’s rainy outside.”
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