By Xchange,on January 19th,2012  Well,students are back at school today in Gresham after a freak snow storm. The snow melted off after a few hours and now the city is being drenched with rain. The irony is that the district already had a budget reduction day on Tuesday and a day off for Martin Luther King day on Monday. So a four-day weekend turned into a five-day weekend and the three-day week turned into a two-day week with the Friday assembly canceled. The week after this one is semester final week,so all of the days are half days any way. So what does this mean for the month of January? Students in Gresham-Barlow were in school for ten days (excluding semester final week). What does that mean for the students’education? Talk to the teachers,they’ll tell you the truth about January.
By Xchange,on January 12th,2012  A reenactment of the moment. It is typical for students at Gresham High School to work on very intricate projects. However,it is rare to have them working on one as intricate as making a 3D printer. All was going well until a small,itsy-bitsy,teeny-weeny,smaller than you can hold,piece of dark equipment,dropped onto the dark carpet,which hadn’t been cleaned for years and was subsequently next to the door through which the supervising teacher brought his bike through every day,rain or shine. The distraught student began to scramble to look for it,imagining her project coming to an end right before her very eyes. She screamed at her supervisor to get over there to help her. He quickly came over and scoured the floor,glasses slipping imperceptibly close to the floor as his nose came in contact with the very dirt and mud he had brought in that day. With neither being able to find the precious piece of equipment,they called in the person of last resort. The woman who hails from the main school building,even though she has been outcast to the bad lands of the 400 block,MaryAnn came to the rescue. She looked all over the floor and in half the time that it took for the other two,she found the elusive piece. “Eureka,I have found it,” said MaryAnn Peterson,reliable tech support extraordinaire,as she found the piece that,without it,would have cause the entire world to end…Or at least the hopes and dreams of one girl who just wants to get a scholarship. By Xchange,on January 4th,2012  Welcome back everyone! The semester is not yet over and this is now the time where teachers cram the most on you to make up for earlier in the semester. While you are worrying about that make sure to take note that the weather outside is awfully warm for this time of year and that the east winds have not yet taken you off the face of the Earth. Enjoy my peers,they say these are the days that we are going to miss.
By Xchange,on December 16th,2011  Recently in an IB History class at Gresham High School,the students were asked to draw a map of the United States and label the states and capitals. Hardly any student could accomplish this. The teacher then set up the challenge of having a quiz over the states and capitals in the class on the last day before the winter holiday. In a flurry of activity,the IB student’s were off to memorize the states and capitals. Many students were in competition to see who could learn them all the fastest. They would test each other by walking into classrooms to saying a state and expecting the capital in return. Either the responding student burst into flames due to the amount of concentration it took to retrieve the capital or they would say the capital with so much confidence that you would expect them to explode. Many students used the tool that is Sheppard’s Software to study. So how much do you know?
By Xchange,on December 8th,2011  It’s the holiday season and people are bustling around trying to get all of their shopping done for the commercialism of the season. What about the “true”meaning of the season though? Is it really only about buying the gifts and giving them to people? Or is it truly about family and friends coming together to support one another in the darker months of the year? A poll that was done back in 2006 says that most people (79%) wished that the holidays were less materialistic. However the report went on to say that 59% of people acquired debt during the holiday season of 2005. Granted,these statistics are old,but they still hold merit. Black Friday is quickly turning into Black Thursday with many stores starting there deals at midnight and some even on Thanksgiving day. If people want less materialism,why are they continuing to give retailers reasons to open shop early? Point being,there is still a war:materialism or family? What a question.
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Well,students are back at school today in Gresham after a freak snow storm. The snow melted off after a few hours and now the city is being drenched with rain. The irony is that the district already had a budget reduction day on Tuesday and a day off for Martin Luther King day on Monday. So a four-day weekend turned into a five-day weekend and the three-day week turned into a two-day week with the Friday assembly canceled. The week after this one is semester final week,so all of the days are half days any way. So what does this mean for the month of January? Students in Gresham-Barlow were in school for ten days (excluding semester final week). What does that mean for the students’education? Talk to the teachers,they’ll tell you the truth about January.
