Who were you in HS? Options

[BlackCelicaGT94]

I was the girl hated by all...I kept to myself...they talked ish about me so I talked ish about them. Had mayonaise put on my car and what not. I guess I was kinda b*tchy. I swore at my teachers and walked outta class. :-) Teachers liked me though :-) I never got in trouble for swearing or walking out cuz i would cry and blabber bout problems that werent really affecting me but i knew it would get me out of being in trouble.

I also got called a slut which is funny cuz I didnt ever even kiss a boy at my high school or any high school near by. It was cuz the way I talk...grew up around cars so I talked with the boys and what not. :-D

[BlackCelicaGT94]

Tina not trying to be rude at all but I know how the drama kids were looked at at my high school...were u made fun of at all?!




_______________________________________________________

On a side note --- What kind of high school did yall go to?

Mine was definetly white guys thinking they were gangsta and grew up in the ghetto when they live in a 300,000 dollar house. It was amusing. Senior year we had more ghetto girl fights then guy fights.


What are some highlights of your high school career??

We had a small passenger plane crash into our football field
Bomb scare cuz some kid wrote a note then took it to the principal saying he found it
Earthquake in 10th grade - that was awesome..i got on my cell phone as it was happening haha!


and my personal highlight was putting on a car show for senior project and getting the highest grade


I didnt attend prom or graduation cuz I didnt like anyone at my school nor did they like me :-D]



Our school was pretty unique - when it was first built it was just large open space and there were seventeen 20-min periods


Heres the history of my high school!


Juanita High School has been a “Rebel” since its inception. It began as an idea as part of the 1960’s educational change. In the early days, known as the “Juanita Concept”, JHS was developed and nurtured in the late 1960’s by John Strauss, Juanita’s first principal, and came to fruition with the opening of Juanita in 1971. The concept included an open architectural design sometimes compared to the architecture of a warehouse. Juanita’s large open area was surrounded by an auditorium, music area, industrial arts and art area, photo and business rooms, the KIVA, science room and the main office. The Juanita concept embraced innovative educational concepts, like respect for the student, mastery learning, performance based learning, credit for work completed, individualized instruction, and the development of life long learning skills. Ironically some of these concepts have reemerged as hallmarks of recent education reform.

Juanita officially opened on September 4, 1971, but because the building was not ready for occupancy until November 13, the first nine weeks were spent double shifting at Redmond High School. The curriculum for math, science, social studies, and language arts was contracted with the Westinghouse Learning Corporation for the first two years of Juanita’s existence. Assignments were printed in teaching-student units (TLU’s) which were obtained from the teacher. Students tested individually in the Testing Center and tests were scored overnight by a computer that resided in Iowa City, Iowa and results ere reported on printouts posted outside teachers’ office cubicles the next morning. Many people confused this computer with “Chester”, which was housed in the blue plexiglass structure, located in several different places in the open area during the first ten years of Juanita’s existence. Chester was, in fact, an audio and video tape retrieval machine, that allowed students throughout the building to listen to audio tapes or view video tapes (there were many audio channels and two video channels) using headphones and monitors in carrels sprinkled throughout the open area.

The schedule that was used the first two years was quite revolutionary and controversial. It consisted of seventeen 20-minute periods, called “mods” which allowed both large and small group instruction. The purpose was to encourage individualization and accommodate partial credit. Most classes were small—12 to 16 students—and student schedules were flexible, with about 60% of their time in class and about 40% unstructured. Students were expected to work on homework assignments and testing during that time. The free time and small class size allowed a strong camaraderie to blossom between staff and students. Classes in the open area met at seminar tables scattered throughout. In 1973 the mod schedule was replaced by a seven-period schedule, and that schedule was replaced in 1981 with the six period schedule, the one Juanita uses today along with occasional block scheduled days.

Many factors affected Juanita’s inability to maintain the “Juanita Concept”. One of the biggest was the Basic Education Law passed by the Washington legislature in the mid-1970’s, which based school district funding on students being “in class” 55-minutes for six periods a day. The 12-16 student classes swelled to 30-33 students and the open area was transformed into a collection of ordinary classrooms partially separated by small wooden student lockers and cupboards. It was not long until talk of “remodel” was heard;1984 saw the beginning of a two year remodeling project which partitioned the “open area” into classrooms and hallways. Juanita took on the look that it has today.


This post has been edited by BlackCelicaGT94: Jun 24, 2005 - 10:14 AM