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of School “Anyone who wants to sign my yearbook come up here!” yelled one student today from the top of the slide at the playground at Linton Springs Elementary School. It’s that time of year again all around Carroll County. Only one half-day of school left until the freedom of summer. But until that final bell, what is there to do? The teachers were given their orders long ago about what to do. “We have to keep them busy until the last moment,” said Liberty High School’s media center specialist Dina Shein, “They had their finals this week, even today. Teachers were supposed to teach until the last moment.” That’s the attitude all over the school system: Keep teaching. Eighth graders at Oklahoma Road said that although teachers are not handing out worksheets anymore, they’re still talking to them, giving relaxed lectures, and reviewing. Otherwise, these last days are filled with structured activities, locker clean outs, and tying up all the loose ends. While most will be going back to the same schools next year, fifth and eighth graders have a whole new school to look forward to and a whole new perspective to embrace. Seniors graduated last week and are already enjoying themselves, looking forward to college, work, or the military. With these seniors gone, many high school teachers have empty classrooms. Simon Drew, an English teacher at Liberty High school, only has one class of freshmen. “They’ve been working on finals, working on poetry, and deconstructing movies,” he said. There have been mixed feelings among the rising senior class of 2008. “Juniors who were good friends with seniors got lethargic. They started to get senioritis.” Dina Shein said between taking pictures with students, “Some seem ecstatic. But mostly, they seem lost because their buddies are gone.” Two excited eighth graders knew exactly what they were doing, though. As they strolled to their buses during the final call, they told of their plans for the last day: “Par-taaay!” |
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