Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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1976 1976 1976 1976 197619761976 1976 19761976 1976 1! The budget cut capers If there was ever apathy here, it completely disappeared this fall as students united to fight the cutback in extracurricular activities threatened by a decrease of state school funds. Petitions were circulated and sent to the school board. A few students even threatened a walk-out, so Dr. Venable called an assembly of all students to “calm them down.” Another effect of the budget cut was that no substitute teachers were hired; regular teachers filled in during planning periods. As it turned out, these “new” substitutes were the only noticeable effect of the cutback. The threat to cut activities disappeared, but the fact that the students can and do care about their school was apparent. Serious faces, serious business. Mr James Edmunds, a member of the Board of Supervisors, explains the board ' s position and the effects of the budget cut to an anxious body of SCA representatives. ifiii§ Built-in substitutes. Mrs. Mary Davis (above) and Mrs Elizabeth Brade fill in for absent science and business teachers when the budget cut prohibited the hiring of substitute teachers. Opening: Budget Cuts 7

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Students do care: 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 19 Budget balancing. At a special assembly, Dr. L. M. Venable and students discuss problems concerning the proposed budget cuts. Worried look. The new budget cuts were the topic of discussions and debates among students. Marshall Slayton and Joe Exum discuss the topic before Journalism I class begins. 6 Opening: Budget Cuts

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Tradition plays a major role in any school’s operation and HCSH is no ex¬ ception. However, 1976 saw several time- honored events cancelled and others threatened. The Homecoming parade, a fall institution, was eliminated as school officials cited club apathy as the culprit. At Christmas, the Snow Ball followed the parade into the past as an early, unexpected start of Christmas vacation caused its cancellation. With the cuts in the state education budget came spring, bringing talk of no more extra-curricular activities and no prom. Somehow, this was averted and the crisis that united the entire student body was solved. Even with the noticeable absence, or almost absence, of these events, the handful of traditions remaining were enough to make the year one to remember. became the ‘almosts’