Lake Braddock Secondary School - Lair Yearbook (Burke, VA)

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Finding the hidden meaning of T.A. — food, Mr. Mis- ner and Chuck Dizenfeld enjoy the mselves. One thing that was unique about Lake Braddock was its T.A. — those minutes of school when you talked to your Teacher Advisor about school and personal problems. But what if you didn ' t have any problems? Then you socialized, ate. played games, had parties or skipped. When asked. “Did you like T.A.? students had varied opinions. Some liked it because they felt they needed a break. Those who didn ' t, thought it was a waste of time; they felt their T.A.s served no purpose. “What did you like to do in T.A.?” The answer was “eat.” When T.A. was changed to just Monday. Wednesday, and Thursday, students liked it better. The free break on Tuesday gave them h chance to hang around with their friends, and the twenty minutes before school on Friday was an opportunity to wake up. Trying to get his T.A. organized. Mr. Alwood comments. We ' ve got to start meeting like this! Greg Skorupski and Tom Wiley were grateful some¬ one remembered to plug in the popper. Studen! Ljfe 19

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BOREDOM It was 7:40 A.M., and in first period class you yawned and wondered, What am I doing here?” That was boredom. Later on, you found yourself staring at a book and listening to a teacher lecture about some subject that would supposedly be useful in the future, but seemed unimportant then. That was boredom. During the day, the disease hit you. You felt the symptoms; you found yourself yawning and wanting to go to sleep. Your thoughts became boggled and concentration was an impossibility. Students and teachers had varied opinions about what caused boredom. The Top Ten Causes of Boredom were (not in order): 1. Lectures: how teachers or students presented some subjects. 2. Studying for Exams: reading things over until they were memorized. 3. Homework: having to force yourself to do homework, and having a large amount of it. 4. Students Who Refuse to Participate. 5. T. A.. . . nothing to do. 6. Teachers With Lifeless Voices. 7. Languages: having to repeat lines until they were learned. 8. Waiting for Buses. 9. Standing in Long Lunch Lines. 10. Sitting Through Attendance. What was the solution for boredom? The options were yours: A. Daydream during work and act like a jerk. B. Fume and fret and make yourself a nervous wreck. C. Take things lighter and things will look brighter. After a hard day, Laura Lund decides to let the book study for her. The heck with reading! Blowing bubbles is more fun for Mike Yomens. Discovering the true purpose of chairs, Brian Nool takes it easy. Feather pillows would do the job better, but Lisa Tucker and Jeanne Tru¬ jillo settle for chairs. IB Student Life

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During sixth period, Cindy Kelly and Mr. Piernick discuss German. Mr. Kramer explains to Cortney Hicklin a physics problem, Student Life 20 In our large school, teacher-student relationships were important. A student was more to a teacher than a name in a rollbook. He was a person with whom the teacher could relate and openly share ideals. Lake Braddock’s teachers were always willing to lend a sympathetic ear. T. A. was an example of how rapport was developed between teachers and students. T.A. was a time during the day to socialize, take it easy, and do homework which should have been done the night before. Fun within the T.A. group was not only confined to school hours. Many groups enjoyed going places, such as Kings Dominion, bowling, and ice skating with their T.A. group. The generation gap was seldom seen at Lake Braddock because there was a mutual give and take. Dr. Manning has a man to man talk with Clinton Jeftries. Mr. Hills tells it like it is to his T.A.