Safety Harbor Middle School - Reflections Yearbook (Safety Harbor, FL)

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Sixth graders Paul Turney, Shelby Bond, Cathleen Cairns, and Robin Riek find that homework assignments can be fun when you are allowed to be creative. Opposite page: Gina Dunn, seventh grader, lies comfortably on her bed while passing the time reading a book for language arts. In Mr. Cohnhs second period class, Heath- er Harvey gets a laugh while she does her homework. 1 6 h omework

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Troy Fish and Christina Leggott shaie , laughs on a parasail ride at Clea1'water iiBeach. Friends are bound; TOGETHER FOREVER The subject of friendship ate ,S.H.M.S. is a very popular ,and important topic. Our students feel that friends are a basic part of geveryday life, and they treat their 1friends with; great respect. VFriends mean more to me than schoolfi says eighth grader Chris Harwell. Some of the students ?here at Safety Harbor have been in classes tegether since kinder; i garden. Nancy Calandra and her best friend have been together for even years now. The longer :yq'u are friends, the better your friendship becomes. Christy Da- fries feels that ttFriends are better than guys because friends are al- ways there after the guy dumps on, and they always listen to your problems. Friends spend many happy; hours together watching t.v. Fri- day iand Saturday night sleep-E overs are very popular with 31:11-- dents. There always seems to be a long reserved list for the Friday; The Thirteenth series; No sleep- over is complete without a scarey 1 movie right before lights out! Stu- dents who Survive the return of Jason spend the next day just hanging around at the beach. Jer- ry Collins 3150 an eighth grader says uI spend most of my free time hanging around with my friends. We just mess around at; the mall or watch a movie. Sports and extra curricular ac- tivities bring friends together outside of school. Eighth grader 1' Chris Robinson says, During; baseball season, itisklike were to- , gether eVery night. Yeah, sports 'i really keeps us going - ' Contrary to what many stu- , dents think, teachers also have w friends and a life outside of school. Dr. Potter, seventh grade 1 reading teacher saysfiA good friend isiike having a safe house to go home to, a place where you can know youill be well received, where there is warmth without 1 conditions or strings attached? Popular singer, James Taylor summarized friendship best in 'L his song itYouive Got A Friend : - Just call my name and Iillcome running, you,ve got a friend. Friendsj 15 ,

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The most dreaded middle school disease HOMEWORK Homework, as every student knows, remains the most in- escapable, most dreaded and occasionally the most time consuming aspect of middle school. I take some books home every night. I guess its just a habit. I just throw them on the floor, and later on I start to pick them up and then I say to myself forget this I have better things to do,' says eighth grader Emanuel Anton. Although some students managed to get good grades without doing homework, most had to do their home- work or suffer the conse- quences. Many students feel that they should not be given homework for they go to school seven hours and then have to go home and do more work. Every student has dif- ferent methods and styles to tackle the problem of finishing their homework. Some pre- ferred to go straight to their room and do their homework so they would have the re- mainder of the evening free. Others have extra curricular activities or prefer to watch soap operas immediately after school; therefore, leaving it until later. Some finish it up during lunch or in other class- es, and a few finish their homework at the bus stop, on the bus, or on the bus ramp. 1 really donit know much about homework because I never do it, says seventh grader David Amerio. Most teachers assign homework reg- ularly. Many parents request that their children be given homework, as it reinforces what was taught that day in school. For students that are having trouble with home- work and don't have anyone to ask for help, there is the Homework Help Line. Like it or not there is no cure for this dreaded disease. Homework d 1 7