Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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 Oh darn - missed that rotten bus again! When your days began like this, you could just imagine what the rest of the day would be like. It was hard enough to got up on time and get to school by 7:45 let alone miss the bus. After you got to school, it was one late permit after another, and finally you ondod up with a detention. Remomber trying to run to class in the allotted 3 minutes with a thousand books? It was hard enough to get there on time when your classes were on the same floor, but if you had gym class and then I P S. on the third floor, you practically had to be a track star. The only thing worse than missing the bus in the morning was missing it after school. Then you either had to find a friend with a car or call mommy to come pick you up. Wouldn't it have been nice to be living before they invented clocks or bells or even teachers! Those were really the good ole days.

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Did you know that at one time the Park Building used to be the high school? It wasn't always a condomned building just sitting around waiting to be burned down. Change was a part of our lives. Building uaod to bo Ashtabula High School Tho Park Building wan burned at the beginning of the year. There were really a lot of differences in our school, both inside and out. Gono were the days of the hickory stick and McGuffey Readers. Also gone were the teachers who looked liko Miss Emma Warmington. Our teachers had new ideas they had developed especially for our benefit. It became the rule rather than the exception never to strike a student. Could you have even imagined having your knuckles slapped by a teacher? Our punishments were Room 4 detentions and suspensions Grade cards were made up by computers, and if you were placed in the wrong class, there was no one to blame but technology. At times it seemed that the computer made more work than doing things yourself - like X-day! It had some definite advantages though, like the time grade cards were two weeks late and it gave those with poor mnrks two extra weekends before being grounded! These new developments made a difference in the quality of education we received and helped to prepare us for the evor-changing world Math lMtb«n «ur dost look like this anymore 11