Calumet High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Summer school, what a drag. Or maybe it really wasn ' t all that bad. To find out, Chieftain reporter Lennie Stitt was sent out to get the opinions of those who attended. By far, the biggest gripe the students had was the time of the classes. Sophomore Joy Clod- feldter commented, I liked it, but I had to get up at six to get there on time. The most common class taken was Driver Education, which junior Debbie Simko said, was better than learn- ing from your parents.

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I think it is good they move around alot. I think it hurts the school in many areas, by that I mean it is very difficult to hold a dance anymore because the kids get moblie and they may be hav- ing some kind of operation when they hop in their car and go to Valpo or they hop in their car and go to Ham- mond or alot of them go down to IU, spend the week- end at IU, with brothers or sisters or someone. I think it is great. I think the kids are much more sharper to- day than they were in 1959. They want to do more things. They are, I think, much more patient today than they were. I think they want things done now. If I may be negetive for a moment, I think that one of the things, one of the problems we have with the teenagers today, and I haven ' t said this to too many people, but it seems that when a young man or young lady falls into trouble here at school, by that I mean, caught ditching, caught stealing a fire ex- tinguisher or something it seems as though that indi- vidual doesn’t want to pay the price or suffer the con- sequences. He or she will say Oh ' give me a break. Jimmy Smith did the same thing and nothing happened to him. Barbara Smith did something similar to that and nothing happened to her. Give me a break . I think that the kid deserves that if it is something minor, but in most cases they don ' t want to do that, they don ' t want to pay the price or suffer the consequences. They want to get off. I’m not sure what the reason for it is. I do know that we ' re not unique in that.

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In another vein. Lulu Blankenship, also a junior, said that the class was ben- eficial in that it helped her successfully get her li- cense. An interesting note about the summer session was the sight of new teach- ers from the Jr. High. Along with the popular Driver Education class, were the regular academic courses as well as band. Junior Larry Mohler, who took English and U. S. History, said he enjoyed learning about the history of our country.