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

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met Septem- ber with plans of improve- ment. The combo was no more with a new pricing system on each individual item. The hot lunch increased to 51.25 which met to some disapproval. 1ur lunch room l salad, and chicken fried steak and pota- toes. The new r e d tr a y s , which blanketed the cafeteria, dis- played the black bold letters of Grand Prairie Inde- pendent School Dis- trict. The students Tacosaladseveryday, concluded that the M isn 't going to cut it, food was a little better said Steven Cherry. and the price a little ,Q . A ' However, the extra higher, but occasional- twenty cents were sac- ly they remembered 4' ' - ,fs , N KA! rificed along with sev- the good ol'e days of 4 1' 11' , l 'fag XQTMS ,., T eral other changes. For 31.10 lunches, combo ,L tg.. X instance, what would lines, and pizza and ' ' his , ' g 'f 4th period be without corn. , H 2 baked potatoes, taco - f , A 1 -V '..'f f i '-'f . .- ttv .. rends were ob- vious, even in ,the faculty. lt seemed that teachers from Jackson Middle School migrated over to the high school. Three former middle school English teachers, Mrs. Sneed, Mrs. Norton, and Mrs. Frey, recently moved up in the ranks now teaching 9th and 10th graders. When asked, Why the move? , Norton said, I was ready for a change. I wanted more of a chal- lenge plus l've known some of these kids since their 8th grade year. All three teachers noted a difference in maturity of the older students. They are more mature and at- tentive. You don't have to worry about little sculi Iles, said Sneed. They also named Homecoming as the most memorable event this year. But these teachers like all of us have one special wish tucked away, All I ask is that someone invent an automatic grader for those troublesome Eng- Iish papers, said Frey. However, the new re- cruits made it through boot camp with only a few cuts and bruises. . . ..,,,f,.frga- .L-f ..4.,5.., 1 4,1-,,,n,,,. ..f- --L-whiff'-1-51 c,-.'- we-gpxi,gQ,,-5,2

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