South Grand Prairie High School - Signal Yearbook (Grand Prairie, TX)

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iylw on the nose 5' 'ij Making the i grade-that was the name of the game when it came to re- search papers, tests, and daily homework assigned quite frequently. How did students pull out the grades and participate in all the extra-curricular ac- tivities at school, one might ask? Most chose to solve this problem with their own method of brown-nosing, depending on the teacher in- volved. Brown-nosing is a gift! You have to know how to read a teacher before you go sticking your nose where it doesn't belong! For some just buy them food, said Frankie Rios. This method was like a form of cheating without the punishment. Was it successful? Accord- ing to Cheryl Jarrett, brown-nosing was so popu- lar because students are making the grade . generally lazy and always looking for a break. Person- ally a big smile and a quick hug is all you need. Cheating in the class- 2 0 ACADEMICS As a teaches it is fim to watch frankie and S,qQtt's ,pose :turn brownerl.,They're at ev- ery volleyball game hooping to impressgme withgenthusiasm. But It reaHy'doesn'T get them anywhere! , , i coach sarcoma OH PRETTY PLEASE! Begging for that extra point, tries to sweet talk her way to an Wi with Mrs. Roberts. Iphoto by Sean Rubinol Q5 POWER PLAY . . . Mrs. Farr wisely takes advantage of her student in need of extra points, John King, by using her loquacious ways to get him to do something for her. Iphota by Sean Rubinoj 4 'Q I l , AW V ifiliit . uf 't P ' fvafrfwt W ff

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. ' ' 4 hat is from Holland and likes sports? Can you guess what is 5'9 a n d h a s brown hair? One more hint77 What is from L,Hospitalet, Spain and is in the Rotary Club .. Give up? Itls the new for- eign exchange student roaming the halls here. They are Maria Delray, from Spain, Silvia La- fuenta from Spain and Jean Pierre Raes from Holland. Dating starts at an earli- af of ff o - or , xiffeffiviz ' Qioiqinafwfiogo v rfpwf' 55269 'GSW as 00855 'ko BCC B010 6gz9fa5S9 QV 03 f 'liiaeefiivvw o 90 2 2 ACADEMICS Foreign Faces er age for some girls. Here all the girls have boyfriends, in Spain we don't start to date until we're out of high schools. said Silvia. The time limit on going out on weekends is very different. People here have to be in early. Most of the teen at home go out on a Saturday night around 10:30 p.m. and stay out as late as 5:00 a.m. depending on your parents. said Jean. Com- pared to Spain and Hol- land we have many places to go and hang out, as long as the cops do not come and bust it up. Today stu- dents almost need a car to get to all the local han- gouts. As Maria noted, You have lots of places to meet with your friends. In Spain everything is so close such as pubs, discos, cafetinos. We do not need a car due to everyone lives in the city. The cultures have the customs and tradi- same tions, but just different ways them. of implementing The students feel very comfortable here and find that the culture shock is not too bad.