Roughly 20 percent of a senior's present lifetime has transpired as a Blair student. Having passed such an immense amount of time in one school, it may be difficult for these senioritis-inflicted elites to remember each detail of their high school experience, freshman year in particular. Please permit me to fill them in. The right to vote is a long-established freedom in America, but many young people have neglected to utilize their right. And there is the freedom to stay out late with friends and sleep until noon the next day.
Summer is a season that seems specifically designated for savoring the precious years of youth.
The Montgomery County Board of Education, after long and fruitless searching, has pinpointed the origin of our disappointing performance on reading and math standardized tests. Once believed to be the result of years of rewarding unprepared students, it now appears that the problem of academic underachievement has been traced back to what might appear to be an unlikely source. Don t let their innocence fool you. The ignominy of our county's scores falls squarely on the shoulders of lazy pre-school and kindergarten students. I enter my freezing car and race off with the rest of the morning commuters.