Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Adjusting To Many students, instead of taking college oriented classes, took more practical shop classes. No matter what courses students took, there were adjustments to be made by both students and teachers. All students were required to take a gym course and students as well as teachers had to adjust to larger classes. Aerobics became a positive addition to a tedious gym program. Students easily adjusted to such a favorable addition. Freshmen and Sophomore students who took exploratory shop last year were pleasantly surprised to find many new Level 1 courses in occupational Education. Among the additions were Mechanical Drawing, Auto Mechanics, Electricity, Woodworking, Graphic Arts, Drafting, and Metals, which made the shop program more palatable to many kids. Positive additions were very easy to A Standard adapt to but there were also some negative things to reckon with. These negative points were much harder to adjust to. No one was very happy about the changes, but eventually they were also accepted. College oriented students suffered when some advanced classes were eliminated or reduced, such as Sociology, Government and Politics, and Physics II. Adjustments such as these were not welcome and many students still feel cheated. Some changes didn’t occur until after the year was started and these were more easily adapted to. An attempt to reduce teacher-student ratios, making teaching easier and more effective was the easiest and most important type. Whether the changes were positive or negative they key word was adjustment. Typist work busily in a typing room on the third floor of B- building. Academics

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30 Time of Day wmk Watching The Clock One of the many dilemmas the average high school student faces each morning is getting up out of bed and making it to school before the eight o’clock bell. For many, this is an impossible task, but this is only the beginning of their problems. Stumbling into school, you notice kids rushing into their homerooms before the first period bell. Others, especially those who have major classes early in the day, are trying to wake up and prepare themselves for their first few classes. By lunchtime practically everyone has perked up and is anxiously awaiting the end of the fifth period and the beginning of lunch. Between the sounds of grumbling stomachs and voices of kids returning from lunch, students in classes have a hard time concentrating on the work with all the distractions. The last classes of the day always seem to be the longest and the most boring. Kids are constantly watching the clock, counting the minutes until the dismissal bell rings. They are frequently distracted by their friends out in the hall or their minds start wandering from the subject. Most people don’t realize how important the time of day really is. To students it could mean the difference between getting good marks and sleeping. In a way it is the time of day that determines a student’s fate — should he get up on time or should he oversleep. Also the time of day refers to the times of such important events as dismissal and lunch. These are two times you can see your friends and have some freedom. After all, if you got up on time you deserve some kind of reward. B-f vX i ' ' . . . • - - v V, ■ ' {