Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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 am so scared.” “Me too. The moment we walk in to Kennedy, we’ll get raped, or killed, or worse! I’ll have to break my leg a lot. That way, I can take the elevator and avoid all the gang wars in the halls. No. wait! I'll JOIN a gang. I don’t want to look real conspicuous. We’ll have to start planning now for next year. We’ll have to prepare ourselves for all the violence. I’m not used to the sight of blood. I know. I’ll check the want ads under 'bodyguard'. “No. too obvious. “I wonder if my mother , has ever considered going back to school. How are we going to get all the money we'll need for school? Whips, chains and brass knuckles don’t come real cheap, you know. I’ll take up selling drugs. After all. if I don’t sell it to them, someone else will, right? Maybe I can expand, and pick up the elementary school routes. I could be a multi-millionaire by the end of my senior year! I could take money out of my college fund. I’m sure I could get the money back, somehow. I hear the Army has a really great plan.” “This is beginning to look better and better. We won’t have to worry about going away to school. We can stay right here at home and go to Normandale. I mean, an education is an education, right? When school boundaries were changed. Lincoln's Tim Carlson and Jefferson's Mike Welle found themselves having to give up and give in a little to adapt to a different school. 24 Feature

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s soon as Kennedy students heard of the possibility of Lincoln closing — but after breathing a sigh of relief — their tiny minds began spinning with all the possible changes that would be made. What would the new school colors be? Would Kennedy retain its identity in this small way. keeping blue and gold, or in an attempt to make the Lincoln-ites more at home, will the colors be changed to that of Lincoln, green and white? Or. to pose an even more disturbing question, would the two schools combine to create the new school colors, resulting in aqua and pastel yellow? If this is not confusing enough, what would the new classes be like? Would Kennedy provide some classes for the displaced Lincoln-ites designed to mainstream them into Kennedy life? Would there be yet others designed to guide Kennedy students in getting along with Lincoln students? We have attempted here to provide next year's students, be they native or immigrants, with an idea of what could be in store for them. Here is a helpful catalogue of existing classes, and the premiere of some designed especially for the possible merging of the two schools, hopefully reducing the number of school closing related deaths. Courses change to meet needs of possible Kennedy immigrants Modern Study Habits This will prepare the Lincoln student for the lower curve here at Kennedy. The course will help the Lincoln student through the emotionally and physically difficult transition from studying two hours for a one hour test, to studying during passing time for a final. Teachers Pet Basic Requirements: Student must be friendly, sociable, and have a personality compatible to that of the teacher. He she must be able to make coffee, take attendance, and sit around looking bored. Believe it or not. this earns you a credit. (See also Advanced Teacher's Pet or Student Assistant.) Elementary Wall-Writing This class will explore the major differences between the wall-writing in the two schools. Lincoln students will be guided from Chip and Muffy. Love for ever and ever. But not til after we’re married. to the more traditional here at Kennedy. Bubba and Woman.” She gives it to him so he takes her out.” Creative Rhythms Basic Requirements: Student must be able to read music, distinguish basic rhythms, intereact positively within a large group, feel comfortable on stage, learn various musical styles, study classical, modern, and jazz music, and effectively perform all of these, and above all, must look good in hot pants and ugly black shoes. Sleeping Studies in Basic Money - Basic Homework Confusion Management Basic Requirements: Basic Requirements: Basic Requirements: The course will take the Students must be capable The successful Kennedy Student should already student on a trip through of napping through a English student must be have completed a course the fascinating world of documentary film on the capable of juggling three in Introduction to financial management. causes and effects of the notebooks, theme paper. Basic Confusion or its This class will instruct War of 1812 without 12 pens, five equivalent. He must be able the ex-Lincolnites on the drooling on the desk. pencils, a dictionary. to appear as if he best investment opportunities Top ten in this 25 pounds of textbooks. comprehends all obscure in the stock market. class can be more than a typewriter, and an aged concepts until five minutes banking investments, and easily recognized by a English tutor while madly before test time, then liquid assets, while the red blotchy sleeve running to a quickly whine obnoxiously. But Kennedy student will learn imprint on their departing school bus 1 don’t understand! of important investments cheeks, foreheads. through a violent throng while peering over such as food, clothing. and wrinkled clothing. of migrating students. his neighbors shoulder. and shelter. Learning Feature 23

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cJrolo, ' rvN GGCxc x oct tO l$Cwj Qra rrvcfe O-SLftX t: ' nn QUX .- poo? JSre irN ( rr Sn so osg Coot IfO lAfOCt1 po of o QQQO-} -hcr Q, TCxkrs bCIwl VOi WWWOIb Compromises needed to help overcoming social differences mam so scared. I know that when the Lincoln and Jefferson kids walk in. the dress code is going to be unbelievable. 1 11 have to buy clothing with name tags on them. Bye bye Plain Pockets, hello Calvin Klein. Why do I want some guy’s name, whom I’ve never even met. on my butt. That’s awfully intimate for a complete stranger, don’t you think? I can’t afford nice Clothes. I CAN BARELY AFFORD NICE FOOD! What about the new curve? Now I know I’ll never get to Normandale. How do they do it? Do so well in school. I mean. They must ... No. they couldn’t. But then again, maybe they ... could it be that they actually ... STUDY? Nahhh ... No high school student in his right mind would actually ... study. It’s practically a four-letter word, give or take a couple. (I got a C in Algebra.) I can’t disgrace my family. I’ll have to study. Then again. I can’t disgrace my reputation. My name will have to be erased from thousands of bathroom walls around the country. That’s a risk I’ll simply have to take. I’ll study. It’s not such a sacrifice to make, when you consider my reward: the chance to further my education at Normandale. Did I say Normandale? I meant the U. The University? Why stop there? I’m not stopping until I get to HARVARD! With the arrival of prestigious Westerners. Jim Hartmann w t have to clean up his act loomington. It’s not a city, but two cities within a city. If one were to believe the stereotypes thrown at us. one would think that only rich, prestigious, highly intelligent children are reared in West Bloomington, and only juvenile delinquents inhabit East Bloomington. Of course, stereotyping and overgeneralizing has taken its toll; however, the belief that ’’West is best and East is least has been played by both sides. For many, it has been accepted as truth. So. as long as the Westernites attended Jefferson and Lincoln, and the Easternites were kept at Kennedy, there have been no major problems. Until now. Until now things have run smoothly in Bloomington schools. Money problems changed all that this year, however, for the School Board was forced to make major cuts. One cut would save $1 million; it involved closing down a high school. On Feb. 16. 1982. the Board voted to make Lincoln the school to be closed. The dreaded nightmare was to become reality. East and West were to be integrated. How to make it work? Compromise. Both sides would have to play down social differences, forget the stereotypes, and learn to give a little. Compromise would surely help the situation. Compromise alone would make the integration of the schools work. Compromise would enable Bloomington to become a whole once again. Feature 25