East Brunswick High School - Emerald Yearbook (East Brunswick, NJ)

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School tried to satisfy academic interests of all Teachers, counsellors, and administration all realized our problem— that a big school depersonalizes. To the extent that they were able they tried to personalize the academic side of school life. They designed a program of courses to meet our different needs and interests. There were required courses, to be sure, like Phys Ed and Health. But there were also a multitude of electives in required areas, like English and Social Studies. There were structured, sequential patterns in Math and Science, but all departments offered us a selection of programs, ranging from remedial to advanced. We cooked and sewed, sang and danced, painted and wrote. We left school at noon to work under the Coop program, or we took whole days off to intern with local, state, and national government. Some of us hoped for gut courses and drifted through the year, entertained but uneducated. Most of us tried to learn. The choice seemed to be ours.