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SCHOOL BOARD Phillip Hook Loren Lahey Jack Lane Ned Naylor Paul Poznich Don Cheney SPONSORED BY: CO-OP STATION, STEWART FUNERAL HOME
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SENIOR CRITICIZED Many people wonder what makes the administrator take the steps he does in forming his decisions. The staff of the yearbook decided to ask Mr. Knox his views on education today. QUESTION: What do you consider the biggest problem concerning the student body in McCune? ANSWER: The biggest problem that I see this year is a general lack of direction in the school, mostly because we’ve had a lack of leadership from within the senior class. For any school, to have a great deal of success during the school year, you have to have leadership from the seniors. These are the people that are gen- erally the most mature and are grown up both physical- ly and mentally to the point that they take command of the school and lead its various functions. We simply haven't had that this year for a number of reasons. The biggest reason is so many of our seniors tend to want to live only for today. They don't seem to realize that they have a lot at stake in the future. I think the intel- lectual leaders within the senior class haven't been able to lead because they haven't had control of the class. The class this year is a class of average people of av- erage intelligence. In this particular class, the intel- lectual leadership just has not been able to assert itself and this has rubbed off on the entire school. The past two senior classes have had tremendous leaders, but this particular class has not had the leadership. QUESTION: What change would you make to better the educational system? ANSWER: The big change that is needed, I think, to- day in education is a shift from traditional college preparatory programs to the area of technical training. We need technical people in fields such as X-ray tech- nology, hospital workers, hospital administration, electronics, and the nuclear field. We don't have enough electiricians, carpenters, plumbers, or repairmen. This is why plumbers are making $9.00 an hour. There are simply not enough to meet the demand. Russia is producing a great many technically trained people and I think they are far surpassing us in this area. We tend to look down on technology education because of parents. They decide their kids want some- thing or need something better than them and that they should have a college education. The job market is flooded with college trained people. We have 800 thousand teachers without jobs. We have educated them right out of jobs that they could have done well, could have performed, which would have helped our country greatly. We need technically trained people. QUESTION: Do you feel that most extracurricular activities are important to the student? ANSWER: Yes, I do. I think that extracurricular activities are extremely vital to a school. Extracur- ricular activities are where the student body tends to become more united and we have a tremendous ex- change of feelings, ideas, and a fine social relation- ship. Within the classroom there is very little comment and very little exchange of ideas other than to repeat what the teacher wants you to repeat and to say what the teacher wants you to say. Extracurricu- lar activities are a means where our young people find that they do have something to contribute and something to say that is worthwhile. Also, they find out that our teachers are human beings too, and they aren't just a classroom god or dictator. Through extracurricular activities people become more aware of themselves and of others around them. I think this is something that is very important in all schools. We need to get our girls more involved. We don't have a sports program for them here and that is very unfortunate. The whole MBL has tended to neglect the girls. I am the MBL President and as president I have tried to get them to do a little bit more for the girls. They won't and don't want to, simply because costs are so great. They are already putting out the money in the boys' program and they just don't have the extra money for the girls' pro- gram. I think that if we dig we could find the money and we could have a better program for the girls. QUESTION: Why do you feel athletics is such a vital part of the educational system? ANSWER: I feel very strongly about athletics as you know. If you watch the Olympics you can see athletes from all over the world, who have forgotten that there are basic political, religious, and ethnic differences between the countries. They're all united in sports activities for the glory of sports itself. I think that's what sports are really all about. One of the biggest contributions of athletics is that throughout the athletics program, no matter what the sport, the individual learns self reliance. He learns that he can depend on himself; that when he needs to, he can dig deep within himself and produce. Through athletics we are taking young people off the streets. We're giving them a release for their aggression. Through athletics we are allowing individuals to suc- ceed, and all of us need some degree of success. Many times we cannot succeed in the classroom. We're not the best looking individual, or we're not the most pop- ular, but on the athletics field we can succeed. Athletics unite the school and the individuals within the community into a common cause, excellence. SPONSORED BY SCHILDGEIM’S PHOTOGRAPHY
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