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Page Two HIGH LIFE SEPT. 28. 1971 The New English If variety is the spice of life, then the new English program is "spicy." Greensboro Public Schools makes English a more interesting course for students because it provides a variety of subject matter each indi vidual student likes and needs. During the sophomore year each student is familiarized with all the basic skills on language arts. The student finds out what he is inter ested in and learns the major parts of English which he may later en counter. The sophomore program is also designed to "sniff out" the weak nesses in a student's preparation and can help him plan for other sources which will make up for de ficiencies. The new program seems great for the deficient English students; how ever, it leaves something to be de sired for the highly motivated stu dent who may not be one in the twelve or so students in his class of over five hundred to be accepted for Advanced Placement English. One of the biggest changes from high school to college level work is the demand for high quality writing and high reading comprehension. In high school it is important that each student polish these abilities to the highest level he can. This fact means that a more highly-motivated student should be allowed to choose faster moving or more demanding English courses— courses similar.to the honors English classes that were done away with, but without the honors credit if it is impossible to reinstate the old hon ors courses. Because of little time for teacher preparation, the selection of cours es Grimsiey has chosen this semes ter from the list of available courses appears limited when college prep aration is considered. No basic poe try course is now available. The English Department should be applauded upon their insistence to bring vocabulary into many of the courses. Doing well on college entrance tests and probably in col lege itself depends largely on hand- ling a good sized vocabulary. Now that juniors and seniors are in English classes together, it will be necessary to see that different vocabulary is taught each year. Perhaps this editorial has been too critical towards the English pro gram, especially when one realizes that it was installed in such a cha otic time for the school system. However, the problems pointed out here should help toward mak ing the program as complete and exciting as possible in the next few years. Turning Over A New Leaf By John Parrett To most of the new students at tending Grimsiey this year. High Life will probably be just another strange word in an unfamiliar en vironment. The senior class and many juniors will remember it as 'Grimsiey's "Weakly Newspaper," the paper which vividly recapped football and basketball games (two games later), and somehow never made it to some homerooms. So much for the High Life of old. Last year's staff was faced with countless problems, some of which will remain with the paper as long as it exists at Grimsiey. Due to our patient printer's schedule. High Life will never come out on the morning after an important football or bas ketball game, and even if we had been given a copy of the Pentagon papers, we would have been a week behind everyone else in printing them. Thanks partly to the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, and partly to the fact that even last year's staff grew tired of the paper. High Life has a new staff, consist ing of the largest and most enthus iastic crew of students that has ever worked on the paper. The ad dition of a new faculty advisor com plements the potential of the staff's ability to produce a truly fine paper for Grimsiey. The paper's policy will be one of complete involvement with the stu dents of Grimsiey. It will continually strive to see that the students re ceive interesting news before it hap pens (i.e. student affairs, dances, etc.), avoiding the glib monstrosi ties used last year to fill up front page space. A school Grimsiey's size deserves to have a good student newspaper, especially now. The need for com munication among students has never been felt os strongly as it has in the midst of the integration pro cess, and High Life plans to provide for this need. As with integration. High Life's success will depend partly on its benefactors. A sub scription to the paper will be found to be worth many times over the dollar per semester rate, little to pay for so much in return. Woodstock Nation No, I Fall of 1971 makes an explosive chapter in American history. This "Age of Reckoning" confronts wir- tually everyone utilizing public ed ucation. "The Year of the Bus" has stir red racist sentiments as well as hu manitarian passions. Seemingly, the majority of Americans, both black and white, oppose what tthey consider as the outrageous involve ment of the courts ys. their children. Indeed, the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution as care fully as a nuclear physicist exam ining radioactive isotopes. The questions arising from its momen tous decision range from the con stitutional aspect to the stark re alities of long, and unnecessary, busing rides for elementary kids. Strict constructionists and con servatives might argue that the "right of association" and the "neighborhaod school" concept have been violated by the court's decision, but strong evidence sug gests that the sociological conse quences of a polarized (i.e., raci ally divided) society can only spell the final chapter of our domestic "pax Americana" manifested in our constitution! republic. In this generation, at least, mil lions of young Americans will be coerced into unreasonable scholas tic burdens because their parents refused to allow the racial minori ties the rights and opportunities afforded them. A popular tenet of our present- day liberalism encourages federal control ("fashionable collectivism") wherever and whenever feasible. Like all pseudo-prograssive ideas, it fails to discern the human frail ties existing among us and gaces the fact that people, not govern ments, can truly legislate morality. This is not to say that the civil rights, open housing, voting rights, etc., legislation of the 60's has failed to advance human equality, but rather that it alone cannot ac complish "pragmatic utopian" ideals we all cherish. The IcE-nrifln Cometh (Untitled) (Editor’s Note; The following poem was handed to a senior English teacher in a southern school. Two weeks later, that student committed suicid.e. Printed in the DAILEY PLANET originally, the poem was submitted here by Shelby Flythe, a tenth grade student at Grims iey.) He always He always wanted to explain things. But no one cared. So he drew. Sometimes he would draw and it wasn't anything. He wanted to carve it in stone or write it in the sky. He would lie out on the grass and look up at the sky And it would be only the sky and him and the things inside him that needed saying. And it was after that he drew the picture. It was a beautiful picture. He kept it under his pillow and would let no one see it. And it was all of him. And he loved it. When he started school he brought it with him. Not to show anyone, but just to have it with him like a friend. It was funny about school. He sat in a square, brown, desk Like all the other square, brown desks And he thought it should be red And his room was a square, brown room. Like all the other rooms. And it was tight and close. And stiff. He hated to hold the pencil and chalk. With his arm stiff and his feet flat on the floor. Stiff. With the teacher watching and watching. The teacher came and spoke to him. She told him to wear a tie just like all the other boys. He said he didn't like them. And she said that didn't matter. After that they drew And he drew all yellow and it wa: the way he felt about morning. And it was beautiful. The teacher came and smiled at him. "WhaTs this?" she asked, "Why don't you draw something like Ken's drawing?" "Isn't that beautiful?" After that his mother bought him a tie. And he always drew airplanes anc rocketships like everyone else. And he threw the old picture away And when he lay out alone looking at the sky. It was big and blue and all of everything. But he wasn't anymore He was square inside and brown And his hands were stiff. An he was like everyone else. And the things inside him that needed saying didn't need it anymore. It had stopped pushing It was crushed Stiff. Like everything else. HIGH LIFE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ARE WELCOME CONTACT WINTHROP WATSON J. B. PARRETT, or BRING BY ROOM 868 Published Biweekly by Grimsiey Senior High School 801 Westover Terrace Greensboro, N. C 27410 Editors-in-Chief J. B. Parrett Winthrop Watson Business Manager . . Carolyn Tyer Editorial Staff .... Butch Algood Rorin Platt, Parke Puterbaugh Bob Westmoreland Art Editor James Tingen Photographer Bill Perkins Faculty Advisor Mrs. Rachel Morton
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