Northeast High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Senior Florine Whidby's explanation doesn't seem to be acceptable to Mrs. L. W. Wimberly, Lasseter building principal esse Mays building, keeps track Mr. Lewis Wright, senior English,teacher, has a favorite response to an excuse for neglected homework. He says, ‘That's all right, boys and girls That assignment is only for the graduating seniors 14 Student Excuses

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Tenth graders in Miss Nova Bruss's world history class still look sharp and attentive in sixth period Ninth graders in Coach Walter Daniely’s first period class get an early dose of what high school lectures are like whe Unlike the sophomores who only had to cope with a student body that was twice as large as the junior high, the freshmen missed out on their year to be ‘top dog’ at the junior high Ninth, Tenth Graders 13

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Excuses, excuses! Student alibis don’t fool anyone any more Excuses at school are about as old as the students use excuses every day whether they are about not doing homework, being tardy to school, or classes, or about not staying for detention. Favorites for being late to school in- clude: ‘‘My car wouldn't start; ’ ““My alarm didn't go off;’’ or the real classic, “‘l got busleft.”’ For being schools themselves. Northeast late for class, stubborn lockers, crowded bathrooms, and escort: ing sweethearts to class are the most fre quent culprits. “| had is an increasingly popular line for not doing one’s homework, but student creativity is working overtime on some of these: “‘It blew out the car win- to work” dow on my way to school;” “It was in my jeans pocket and Mom washed ‘em; ‘‘The dog ate it; and ‘‘The baby puked on it.” To the complaint that they did't know a test was com ing, Mrs. Jeanetta Echols tells her class, “I’m sorry, you know that studying your notes is a daily assignment.” Student Excuses 15