this is the acronym that every junior here a p t h s thinks that when it's time to take the p f essays what it really stands for is the pennsylvania system of school assessment an annual pass that students in grades three through eight i'm eleven have no choice but to take to satisfy the requirements of the pennsylvania board of education the p s a is based on standards that verify what students should know and be able to do depending on their grade level and in case they get confronted in a dark alley and are asked to compose a lengthy essay about i want what they want to be when they grow up or maybe what they did on their summer vacation if history is any indication peter students should score through the roof junior p r p h s took the test on march twentieth through the twenty third and we get the results you'll be the first to know traditionally say the hawkins dances are held in november when you leave it up to the women to decide when to have it here p t a just doesn't occur until march actually kyle the whole city talk and dance idea had to come about because the women got sick of waiting for the men to get off their waiting for the guys to come to court and causing her father to hold an annual say hawkins day foot race for the single girls to say south of the single men with marriage being the prize fortunately for the girls the p t a just they don't have to work quite as hard on saturday march eighteenth the class two thousand athletic competition about all of strength determination and ruggedness all these are elements of the modern athlete however very few of these were on display at the recent peters township middle school student faculty basketball games to be no surprise at the twice as tall languages not about the same and well in this case is a gymnasium floor as p t a just celebrates foreign language month with the intern with the annual international volleyball tournament which is open to all foreign language students in any grade level to benefit the international society the games will take place march twenty eighth all this week those fans are raising money for cancer research and education during lunch periods in the high school the way it works the students can put money into jars representing different teachers the teacher with the winning amount of money and must wear purple hair for an entire day never has my change from a twenty help so many other people in case you're having trouble imagining some of our highly esteemed faculty with purple locks we here at at t c f are terrible little glimpse of what teachers might look best in purple something that hollywood things goes well with eating popcorn and sipping on a coke while you're sitting on the edge your seat during one of your favorite horror films there are those who think differently than tinseltown the central blood bank sees it as a more serious problem healthy iron  just students over one hundred ten pounds given the opportunity to help save lives but noting blood at a drive held in high school auditorium on march fourteenth as commonly known every three seconds somebody needs blood luckily that doesn't take into account every three seconds  kill bill volume one it's that time of year again excuses are flying you're trying to get all your paperwork in order as the deadline fast approaches you may think we're talking about taxes but no it's an even more dreadful day in the minds of people th us students the end of the server port period and this thursday march thirtieth as always you can keep an eye on your grades by checking out as on on a daily basis imagine this you've been concentrating hard for three hours your legs might be a little n marks and you can't stop sniffling all you want to do is just make it to the page with a huge stop sign in the corner sounds intense doesn't it three hours of nonstop test taking may seem a bit extreme but what p s essays are just one of the many standardized tests that are required for the system to take and says the juniors just finished battling through the p s a is all last week with the s a t s just around the corner here at at p t we felt it necessary to take a deeper look into the world of standardized testing don't forget your number two pencil for this exclusive t are all college boards i think the school district probably makes us take the s s a because it's required by the government value it like what everybody learns and like compared to everybody else tests because we take them every year like fourth grade on experience is good but i don't think it's necessary i personally believe that we should take more standardized tests that way we could compare ourselves to wards the rest of the educational environment throughout the country couldn't make it take to many of them but they're not that bad because we get  writing curriculum planning i guess first of all i would say they're not asked to take a great number of standardized tests the only standardized test and they're actually true considered to be the norm reference test are the because if you go into a college and you have high test scores obviously they're going to have you know but if you don't have high grades then they're going to know you don't work hard i think it depends because i mean if you have really high grades you should first i should get high just for good grades not just to pass tests but how to think and how to process information how to use it because that truly is a lifelong skill that you would use in jobs in your life in your relationships said to teach children to people don't really take very seriously therefore they goof off they don't study for them some people going to a bad day and i have a good test score for s a t s and i'm really stressing out about them so i'm really excited that i think the most pressure comes from the test in trying to balance the rest of your day i'm having to take the test like i know personally i sat down and had to get to say for three hours and i went to another class and took a class and i really take the toll on you know throughout the rest of the day i'm the only obviously the most important thing to educate students and to help students learn and acquire the skills that will be important for them to be successful in life as far as a standardized test a lot of the standardized tests are based on how well do you think not necessarily how much that you know so in teaching some of the background information like in math and english science social studies to prepare students not directly for the test but it gives them a background of knowledge so that they can apply their thinking skills and taking those tests and we may all believe that we are doing very well here within the confines of peter's township school district but if we didn't compare ourselves to folks outside of peter's township we might lose perspective on how well we are doing compared to the rest of the world and now the students are going to have to compete in a global economy that's more important than ever that we have those external validation of what it is that we're attempting to accomplish news to cover first first off piste chestnut a number of swimmers to the state championships at bucknell university in early march kate retch plays eighth in the stay in the one hundred yard butterfly dan smith also plays eighth in the two hundred yard i am and seventh in the one hundred yard finished eleventh in the two hundred yard i am and up anemic and trip to columbia south carolina proved highly successful for the p t h s baseball team as they took all three games joining jim koski got the win in a seven to one decision ever maurice this week the indians open up their peters would park him season with games against shar valley this tuesday at four pm and bell vernon next monday over on the courts the boys tennis team host the mount lebanon blue devils today monday march twenty the road this week against penn trafford and pine ridge on thursday after losing to the hempfield last friday the girl softball team has the keystone oaks golden eagles today monday march twenty seventh before the team takes to the disease sports complex this weekend the girls lacrosse team kicked off its season with a trip to philadelphia it's one out of three games one the t v is traveling to play oakland catholic today at five thirty pm and will return him to take on north allegheny this thursday at seven thirty pm and finally the p like you set up for the top news of the week coming out on top this weekend was inside man at number one b for vendetta weighed in at number two and number three stay alive number four failure the launch and finally making it to number five the shaggy dog get rich or die trying comes out this week on d v d starring hip hop star fifty cent the plot was inspired by his own life you know i hate it when singers become actors and then models and then fashion designers when they run out of careers oh my god i personally can't wait for the  brain brain to come about it to go see another profession yes well looking much better for d v d s king kong is being released directed by lord of the rings director peter jackson and starring half of hollywood as well as naomi watts jack black adrian is definitely going to be picked off the shelves fast in case you want to little more artistic flavor rob marshall's thrice academy award winning memoirs of a geisha hit shelves for all you science fiction fans quantum leap season four d v d collection has arrived the series started with physicist sam beckett in one thousand nine hundred nine hopscotching through time and space to end in one thousand nine hundred three another completed series out on d v d is northern exposure with a five season run this comedy drama series follows the life of dr joel flashman a recent medical medical school graduate in the small town of sickly alaska and it looks like i'm out of d v d s my topic must see in must see in theaters a movie that i promise will you will but i promise every face will be smiling at the end with the big bang of an ending in theaters this weekend march thirty first while the combination of denis leary's sean william scott and quinn retief would make for an interesting live action movie lucky for us it's animated as their combined voice talents make up sequel to the two thousand and two hit ice age was ice age the meltdown i don't know if the ice age have a tough time believing keanu reeves in the big sack by movie but that's just what you have to deal with in director richard linklater yeah it's the same school of rock in bad news for years richard linklater a scanner darkly hollywood likes latching on to a successful thing so why not use