Mauldin High School - Reflections Yearbook (Mauldin, SC)

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ig, . This is my report card? Neil Hill showed his dissatisfaction with his first report card. Students received their first report card on Thursday, No- vember 7. iPhoto by Robert Freemanl lVIe 'n M R.C. Students Strive To What will my parents say? Will they take away my car? What about the coach? These thoughts ran through the minds of students when they received report cards. Report card phobia was common among students. A place on the J.V. or Varsity team depended on grades. The 1984 Education Improvement Act stat- ed that eligibility for extra-curricular activities was based on previous semes- ter's work. A student had to have pass- ing grade-point-average in all required Make The Grade courses for graduation in order to be academically eligible. If being cut from the team was not enough incentive to make students pull up grades, parents usually seemed to do the trick. They took the car or tele- phone or even applied restrictions on enjoyed activities. Parents knew how to encourage good grades. Lori Ann Jones said, I can not re- member my parents saying you have to make good grades, but I always felt they expected me to. Laura Jenkins Report Cards

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How 'bout that A ! Emory George takes a look at John Ray's report card and admired his A. This year the school went back to using handwritten report cards instead of the computer printout re- port cards. iPhoto by Robert Freemanl This can't be right! Philip Driggers argues his case, but to no avail the grade remained. Many students pleaded for that one extra point to make a higher letter grade, but often attempts were futile. iPhoto by Robert Freemanj Finally! Charles Thompson sighes relief when he looks over his first report card of the school year. iPhoto by Robert Freemanl Not again! Joey Lark eyes his report card and wondered just exactly what his parents would say. Most students were either rewarded or punished for their grades. iPhoto by Robert Freemanj 2 Report Cards , Q fi , i S i 1 as ls.

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Was M Face Red.. Red Was A Popular Color For Embarrassment Have you ever been so embarrassed that you wished the ground would open up and swallow you whole? Different people found different situ- ations embarrassing. Some turned sev- eral shades of red when they discovered their mouths were moving twice as fast as their brains. Others were embar- rassed to be put on the spot by a teacher by being called on when they were un- prepared for class. Dawn Oliver said, I fell asleep in English one day and I dreamed that I was falling and at the end of my dream I woke up all of a sudden. Kevin Sparks saw me and started laughing. Often people admitted an embarrass- ing moment when they had been thrown into a trashcan, but others did not want anyone to know that someone pulled their gym shorts down to their ankles. One girl did not want anyone to know that a guy handcuffed her to the door of the boys' bathroom and later in the year threw her in the locker room be- fore football practice. Some did not lead such exciting lives, but everyone at some point in time has had something embarrassing happen. Shun Thopmson said, On'my way to school a policeman pulled me over for going 32 mph in a 25 mph zone. Every- one in the school must have passed me that day. I was so embarrassed. Embarrassment came in at least ten basic colors ranging from mildly embar- rassed to ready to die. Different people turned different colors and some were creative and made their own color. Watching someone go from shade num- ber one to shade number ten was quite entertaining. Laura Jenkins .S bf v' 1. Sitting on the edge of disaster. Duane Orr, student library aide, demonstrated his brute strength when he broke a wooden library chair in the perodical room. iPhoto by Robert Free- manj Slip slidin' away! Beau Browder experienced an embarrassing moment when he fell and slid down the hill leading to the portables. iPhoto by Robert Freemanj 30 Embarrassing Moments 1 .ag A -. Vff- K- H. .V 2' ,:,,.,..s.. wifi?