Gettys D Broome High School - Medallion Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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Students stand in anticipation, wonder ing will 3:00 ever come. Leigha Face concentrates on her music during the halftime festivities. While relaxing in class, Steven Arthur decides to read an interesting book. 4 — Opening

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Broome High School Began The Year With Changes In The Systems Changes! They occur everyday to each one of us. Do we ever recognize the changes that continue to happen in the schools? Do we ever realize the many different stages we go through each year? Some changes at Broome have been drastic, due to Governor Richard Ril- ey’s Education Improvement Act. This act has brought about many favorable and unfavorable changes for the 1984- 85 school year. Changes included in the act were: students may not miss more than ten unexcused days, longer school days, a limit of twelve noneducational assem- Mrs. Ronda Woodall, our new assistant principal monitors the cafeteria during lunches. blies per year, extra time in class, less time during lunch and class changes, also all days missed due to snow and bad weather will be made up at the end of the school year. Tracy Wertz, a senior, feels that “get- ting only ten days to be absent is not really fair. I do not think that is an improvement.” Other students may agree with her, but Mrs. Kathy Green, an English teacher, feels that this new law is beneficial to the students. Mrs. Green said, “I have already seen a tre- mendous difference in the student’s at- titudes and sense of responsibility be- cause of the ten day attendance policy, (continued page 6) Kevin Lee, wearing his new gold uniform, raises his hands to the coaches as a sign of the victory to come. Deborah Boyce changes books very quickly as she prepares to go to her next class. Opening — 5