Al8 - Friday, Nuvember 16,

Out of the mouths of... |

STUDENTS were = asked:
‘What is it like to be a Grade
12 student in 1984?" Here
are some of the replies:
Jay Paul:

A student, Grad. *8S — i
sets yOu wondering. We are
entering a new world with a

ught economy and many
questions unanswered
Pat Shuen:

Now [I’m in Grade 12 hop-
ing to get into engineering. If
1! want a guaranteed entrance
to U.B.C., | need at least a
B+ average. I’m taking six
academics and am working
my butt off.

Susan Watson:

With today’s increases in
enrolment and = decreases
financially, | feel it is no
motivation for me personally
to get top grades in school

when all | will accomplish 1s
survival.
Terry Dickson:

Carson Graham has

definitely been the best; it
does offer an excellent range
of high-expectation academic
courses with a faculty that
really seems to care. Fven
though there is a serious lack
of funds the staff copes well
and continues to provide high
quality education.
Debbie Mudge:

Is st really worth at: all the
pressures and pain to finally

get out and be cut down
again?
Tim Espin:

Facilities are excellent,
teachers are great, and the

school 1s wonderful This has
probably been the worst three

1984 -

North Shore News

years of my life!
Ravanjit Sidhu:

Teenagers nowadays teel
they have more” respon-
sibilities concerning their
futures,

Sean St. Germaine:

il probably be hhving at
home until I’m 30 because |
won't make enough money to
live on my own.

Karla Grenon:

It’s like being on a cloud 24

hours a day: the top of the

+ pyramid.

Julie Isaac:

Every might | do my
homework and | don’t even
have time to do anything
such as reading a book or
playing a sport.

Greg Boothroyd:

|! am happy with many
things in the school system
today. The courses are well
taught and the teachers are
eager to teach.

Roberta Cuthbert:

The first word to come to
mind would be ‘‘chaos."’
There is just so much to do
Kei Yum Ngan:

Grade 12! It is what I call
the year of decision. This
year | am holding in my hand
my whole future and any
stupid move could destroy
what | have worked for
Shauna Baxter:

| want to help others and
to make the society better for
future generations, but how
am | going to do this?

Katie Ireland:
Maybe [T'll finish school
and get burned by a bomb

John Leroux:

! find that this year we are
starting to feel the full impact
of restraint. Most of the
teachers are handling the
situation very well.”

Rob Harrop:

The enormous
that are on students are
reflected by the outrageous
parties they have to get rid of
them.

Kim Hardacre:

it means sitting tn a class
of 38 and being completely
lost because if you want to
ask the teacher something,
you have to get to school at
7:30 a.m.

Michael Thompson:

Sometimes I feel like drop-
ping it all and going out into
the work force.

John Baechiler:

School in 1984 somewhat
resembles what George
Orwell described in his classic
novel ‘‘1984.”’

Alex Marden:

We are told that money is
being wasted on education
and that it has to stop; that
public money is better spent
ona World Exposition that is
already predicted to lose
money.

Lance Burrows:

It appears as if each suc-
cessive year courses deal less
and less with their areas and
more and more with teaching
students how to pass exams.
Is this what education ts all
about?

Rachel Jones:

| see students wanting only

to further their education for

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the sole purpose of getting
good jobs and ‘‘making
money,’’ instead of perhaps
wanting more knowledge, or
because they are interested.
Values are changing.
Yolande Gray:

1 believe this year, with the
New Wave styles which re-
quire a person (0. exercise
hisy her smagination, has con-
tributed to my own and
others’ openness .. . people
are becoming less afraid to be
themselvés. This is important
to develop a variety of people
to make the world
imteresting.

Corin Hopkin:
lj am not the only person to

have noticed the change.
Other seniors have noticed
that younger (junior)

students no longer hold older
people in respect.
Mark Enns:

There are so many kids in
the classes you can’t get much
individual help from _ the
‘‘professeurs.’’

Anonymous:

1 don’t think that there is
anything different about be-
ing in Grade 12 in 1984. The
only thing that | can think of
offhand is that you are
endlessly pestered by blither-
ing idiots who want to know
what it 1s like to be in Grade
12 this year, instead of 1983
It is just hke being tn Grade
11 except when you walk
down the halls, the lower
forms of hfe (below Grade

2) have to get out of your
way

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