Bethel High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Bethel, CT)

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A school is the newly acquired student privilege which bestows upon the reciprient a sense of maturity and the possibility of cancer. A school is a custodian — a man who knows what is going to happen one hour before the teachers, thirty minutes before the students and fifteen minutes before the administration. A school is a classroom featuring the latest elec- tronic equipment designed to interest the student and succeeds — occasionally. 5

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WilAT is a scbooL? 4 A school is a building (a new one per- haps) which is referred to by some as an architectural triumph and by others as a pillbox”. A school is a cafeteria lady cooking a meal which will he eaten in five minutes and complained about for five hours. A school is a water fountain that doesn’t work, a lavatory closed for repairs, a flooded cafeteria, and an air conditioning system that heats the classrooms.

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A school is a physical education class where a student learns good sportsmanship, athletic skill and acquires the grace of a gazelle. A school is a principal who spends eight hours a day on school business. He divides this time in the following man- ner: three hours on student affairs, three hours on faculty matters, two hours on maintenance problems, three hours on administrative functions, two hours in meetings with community, curriculum and guidance personnel, one hour with transportation snarls, three hours with ------------ A school is a social opportunity to acquire friendships and to demonstrate to the world the virtue of friendliness. A school, more than anything else, is the look on the face of the student — the look which reveals to the teacher that he has succeeded. 6