Flat Rock High School - Parade Yearbook (Flat Rock, NC)

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CLASS COMPLAINTS Before we get the green light from good ’ole Flat Rock High there are just one or two things we’d like to know. (Will someone please answer instead of counting them?) First of all, did Mr: Justus sign a contract with Mrs. Fitzpatrick stating that first period would be eliminated under no circumstances, including an air raid? If we must include English in our High School studies, why must we have the likes of Mrs. Loflin as teacher: The only English our male population can think of is such expressions as “WOW”, “Holy Cow”, and a few others rarely used in good literature. If Miss Osteen must ring the bell each day, why must she use an alarm clock that gains fifteen minutes each night and loses an hour each day? In speaking of Mr. Justus we reverently inquire; must he be partial to red-heads? We won’t have it, Mr. Justus; we’ll dye first. Another thing we wish to inquire about is Mrs. Craw- ford’s lunchroom privileges. She’s no better than we, so why is she permitted to eat from the garbage can while we are forced to eat whatever our lunchroom ladies decide to dish out? And why, if the Home Economics girls can have sewing machines to play with and stoves to make those delicate eatables, can’t the boys have billiard tables and slot machines in the Agriculture Building to pass a few odd moments in a likewise pleasant manner? And why, may we ask, does the fifth period Physics Class have to be the County’s Book-keepers by figuring how much it costs to operate our buses, keep them in repair, and an accurate account of their passengers, who they are, where they live, etc. We ask you, Mr. Justus, “Ts that Physics?” Please, can’t someone convince Mrs. Sinclair that being excused from school is a much better head-ache remedy than an aspirin and a few minutes on the office couch? With the gymnasium roof full of holes, lighting system ka-flooey, heating system composed of two over-size laun- dry heaters, bleachers all splinters and nails, we usually end each game with a greater showing of underwear than school spirit. Until these casualties cease we suggest as our theme song: “Roll Out The Barrel.” If anything gets on our nerves it’s a scratching or squeek, Won’t some student work up enough nerve to ask Mrs. Crawford to wear clothes that won’t screech while sliding up and down a radiator? How can we be duly proud of our high school with a boarding house for pigs decorating the south-end of our soft-ball field? May we, dear authorities, have permission to build a Bar-B-Q stand in front of Mr. Franklin’s pig pen? Jitterbugging, Jumping rope, screaming, yelling, and flirting is all right in its place, but Miss Crosby is a teacher and should be reprimanded for such conduct on the school property—Don’t you think so? We'd like to be sacred enough to ask about some Bibli- cal character, so—Wouldn’t Noah be surprised if he knew that Flat Rock High has preserved well and is still using the furniture he had in the Ark? With all this on the records, Heaven pity the senior who makes a point of returning next year for an advanced course. But, teachers, please have yourselves referred to as ladies and gentlemen through-out the years that follow by taking advantage of the implied suggestions of the foregoing complaints. Glenn Kent.

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