Junior Year Ups and Downs - by Allie and Meagan

Meagan’s viewpoint:

Wow! This year went by fast. We’ve had a fun time as juniors, but I’m definitely not upset it’s almost over! We only have one more year of high school left, and will probably never see most of our classmates after we graduate. That’s pretty sad, but we have less than two weeks of school left until summer! It’s good to almost be done with year, even after all the highs and lows we’ve had.
Although we will soon be the oldest class in the school, it’s sad to say that we do not have the most money in our fundraising account. We were however quite successful with our cookie and crackers fundraising sale, especially after that nasty pasta we were forced to sell in the previous years. Another winning fundraising idea we had this year was to sell peppermint greetings (a.k.a. candy grams). Our class has a rep for not having any school spirit or participating in any magnet events because they’re just to cool to go to anything that has to do with Magnet, but this fundraiser really brought our class closer together. What we did was, we had the class split in two teams, and competed against each other to see what team could raise the most money. Our class really got into it and we raised a good amount of money! In the end though, B day English won, and that was all thanks to the dynamic duo: Meagan and Kristen!
One very important positive about the junior class is the fact that we are going to be seniors next year and can make fun of all the underclassmen! Thanks to this year’s senior class, we got a lot of our senior privileges taken away but we still have a huge advantage over the rest of the school. We only have one more year left and then we’re out of here! How exciting is that? All in all, I’d say this was a pretty good junior year.


Allison’s take:

The school year for the class of 2006 has been a very interesting year. We have had our ups and downs, but somehow managed to get through it altogether. This school year has not been one of our best. The tough time we had fundraising for our Senior Class Trip to the cancellation of our Washington D.C. trip to the cheating website incident, we’ve been through some bad times.
This year our class has been the most separated class. We haven’t worked together well. We needed to work together and get some fundraising done, however that didn’t work out as well as we hoped. It was looking up when the idea of a competition fundraiser came into play. We raised a lot of money because as everyone knows the class of 2006 is a very competitive class. After that our fundraisers didn’t go so well and the worst part was it was our own fault. Not many kids in the junior class cared that much about our future trip in Magnet.
Another downside to this year was how our class trip got cancelled. One of the best things we were looking forward to and the only weekend it snows was the same weekend. I know some people in our class were so excited for the trip they went out and bought about sixty dollars worth of food. That was a big upset of the year. The trip that was supposed to be a fun and interesting trip was postponed until the following year.
One of the most outrageous events that happened this year was the incident with the History Website. Mostly everyone knows about it, but if not here it is. The history tests this year was based on a public website, word got out, and soon most of the grade was getting 100’s on their tests. Now, the controversy was this cheating or not? In my opinion no. What happened? Well, Mr. Stefankiewicz and Mr. Sanservino decided to turn this into a valuable lesson, tying this incident into an event dealing with the chapter we were learning at that time. Now if that’s not considered a crazy part of a rough year, I don’t know what is!