Jim Bridger Junior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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erspectives Elena Tanuvasa- Samoa I think the schools here are very A different and weird. The schools in ' V Samoa are more strict, If you're ab- when you get back. l sent, the teachers hit you with a ruler I think being an American citi- U 2 zen is nice because I can learn more about the language. 5, . X IQ! Garth McCulloch - Canada The schools in Canada are much easier and school tests are usually essay form. The people are great! They have real compassion for being friendly and helpful. Being an Ameri can citizen is comfortable for me because I chose to be a citizen. I value my citizenship be cause it provides an appreciation of things America gave me the chance to finish high school so I could get three college degrees and a job to support my family 2' 1 I 1 mutha 1 .k'i::::.Lvi'i5 I ' s 'l'::2:::5 f ' ' '. . ll n llllfiln Ulhlltix if ' ' 'J' life 5 5552!-73's Qiviik . 2 is , ,K1 T' c, .l U 1 ' 0, ' t . i rf' in izguxix .sv 5 .,g,,,, , ,,. ,y A 54 H' fm An important factor in admittance of immigrants today are the laws restricting the num- ber of immigrants allowed. Not until 1820 did America start a thorough count of the immi- grants. The main reasons many immigrants come are to find political and religious freedom and to look for great economic opportunities. In America, the government prefers that if the immigrants comes, hefshe should have certain job skills. They also have to meet residency and literacy requirements and good charac- ter standards. In the year of the Constitution, the federal government passed new laws allowing many illegal immigrants to apply for citizenship. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants were expected to come forward and register themselves and their families to avoid being arrested and returned to their home countries. These laws did not have the expected result. Many con- tinued to hide not trusting the laws. +23

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oreign 3 4 Debrorah Lee Marlowe- Canada The schools are a lot easier because they don't demand the students to give as much time and ef- fort. The people take a lot for granted and take gov- ernment less seriously. America is a good place to live because it costs more to live in Canada. Being an American citizen im- presses me with all the re- sponsibility it involves. Agnieszka J askierny- Poland The schools in America are not as strict as Poland's schools but the schools here aren't easy just at a lower level. The people, when I first came here, were snobbish and I didn't know the language very well. So I thought they were the most self-righteous people I ever met. Now I think they're caring and hon- est, most of them. Even though I'm not a citi- zen yet I don't think it will make me feel dif- ferent. It'll make me feel sad because I'm not a citizen of my old country. Puerto Rico, Canada, Poland, Samoa, and Mexico. What do all these countries have in com- mon? They all are countries that have immigrants coming to America. Between 1901 and 1910, 9,000,000 immigrants came to America and 70.892 of them were from Europe. Between 1931 and 1940 there were 528,431 new immigrants. Between 1941 and 1964 the count was just under five million. Since the beginning of immigration there has been a certain brutality or unfairness towards immigrants. They were especially brutal around 1890 forcing these new people to live in alleys and poor sections of large cities. They were forced to take poor paying, low level, long houred jobs. Today they are treated with more respect, have better jobs, and people are more understanding of their situation. 221

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chool Events ,pii This year, one of our own teachers, Mrs Gallagher wo . , n a contest held thoughout the greater Kansas City area. It was spon- sored by The Kansas City Star and McDonalds All contest t . an s had to be teachers in an elementary, junior, or senior high school The purpose of the contest was to design a lesson plan about the Constitution using newspapers as teaching tools. The lesson plan Mrs. Gallagher designed was called Know Your Leaders using newspapers to f' d in out who represented our country, state, and city. Mrs. Gallagher won first place at the junior high level. Her prize was 5100. In December, when she taught her social studies classes about the Constitution, this les- son plan was used. Thanks to teachers like Mrs. Gallagher, future leaders of America can benefit from tal- ented instructors like her. Above left: Would you be hanged for your Constitution? Right: An example of student Work durin C ' ' ' g onstltutlon studies. 241s