Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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« - SECTTLD THE SYSTEM OF LEARNING IN SCHOOLS BE CHANGED ? Thl3 I know can bea rath- er contr-oversisl tonic, but I feel them is but one answer t o this q j?£ 11 or, Yf s, There must be outer ways of learning important facts besides read- ing a boring book. Many of the better students can do this sure, but not very many of the below-average students can. Must they be verbally dragged to keep up with the others? It isn't fair either to them or their classmates. I prooose a new system be devised. Under this plan stu- dents would be divided ingroups and progress at their own rate. Little or no homework would be given, so pupils wouldn'tspend long hours at riicbt, oouring over school books, his would also b9nfit teachers; they could spend less time correct- ins? papers and mem time ore- paring their plans,and besides everyone should have some time to do the thinrs they enjoy doing. I think tests should be given twice a year, at the be- ginning to see how much one has forgotten and at the end to see how much he has learned. This would determine which group the oupi Is would be pLacod in. Report cards would not be traded on tests but on daily marks and class oarticipation, There are still a ’ew bugs in my imaginary plan, such as the specialization of courses, but possibly someday I can do somethin» to improve upon our some what obsolete methods of today. Stephanie Forty '71 SCHOOL SPIRIT There's a good tooic - School Soirit , Well fellow classmates and students, cell me what has happened? 7bere did it ?o? I don't know if you have noticed it but someth1 n ? has gor.e wr-cng somewhere. I wish I could put.ny fin- ger on it.I can't seem to find vrhat it is thats lacking. It seems to me anyway that I don't care about anything. If its done, its done even if its not. Well! Its' not the best aMtude to have, and I wish, or should say hcDe, something, or some- one can «et the old school try back on it3 feet. Maybe its because theoei3 not much goine oti anyor: ?. Less dances, and e cry- thin z, but who's fault is that about the dances'11 Hava ”ou tried to have them and make them pay off — without horsinr around and mak- ing the dances closed doer . Think about iti Lets cet croin and show everyone we are the lively ones at F.H.S. Jeanne Couture '69 A XXXXXXXXXX V '- ? V-1 v'O O V - ‘ xxxxxxxxxx

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PROCRASTINATION One of my most crippling downfalls in the accomplishment of my school work is procras- tination. This habitual post- ponement of work also decreases the extent of my achievement along several other lines. Wobster's Seventhi'few Col- legiate Dictionary asserts that to procrastinate is to put off fr to delay intention- ally and reprehensibly the do- ing of samething that should be done. I‘m sure that every student can recall numerous times of loitering in study halls resulting in cither stay- ing up all hours cf the night to study or not getting their lessons done. Procrastination is also injurious in that is often deprives a person of leisure time and recreation. And as civics students have leamod, recreation is essen- tial in a well rounded daily routine. I think that college bound students should be nost anncom- ed with this pitfall. The freshman year at college Is said to be the most difficult because it presents such an alarming change from high school methods f study. In college a person must eithor accept the responsibility of perform- ing his scholastic duties or ho may prefer to choose the other alternative of goofing off and flunking out. Attend- ency to procrastinate just might compel him to take the latter choice. When I think of some sf America's famous men such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, or Abe Lincoln, I can't conceive that they, too, might have possessed this very human trait. Such great people 2. muat have surely overcome this character fault. Take, for instanco,Lincoln,who allegedly worked long hard hours in the field and then spent ovory other spero voment reading or scheming to get hold of a new bock. I can cnly assume that his natural curiosity and hunger for knowledge so far outweighed his desire to sit and gaze that procrastination was never a problem. I think that each and avory one of us should try to prepogato within himself a type of curiosity or intorost whether it be in treeding frogs or making paperr.iache' jewelry. Any constructivo cr knowledge able pastime is hotter than sitting and worrying all cur precious time away. Brenda Gato3 '70 xxxxxxxxxx SCHOOL IS YOURS What has school g£von you? Although wo don't realize it our education is the most important thing we will over have.A good education is nocossary to koop up with the world of today. School can also bo fun. Wo havo good classmates and our ‘'Class Governments help U3 to understand the way in which our American Government is run. Thoro are also many extracur- ricular activities in which tp compete, such os sports. The socond question wo should ask is, what havo we given to the school? Have we studied as much os we should and havo wo boon good school citizons. Our futuro depends on what we dq in school and wo