The room was bustling as Middletown North’s Junior class was beginning to take their seats in the auditorium on October 4, 2013 to be updated as to what will be occurring within the next couple of weeks within the school.
As soon as the students were settled in their seats, the assembly began. Doctor Cartier opened up the program by reviewing several of the upcoming events that are happening at North. Such as the Jr. P.S.A.T.’s on October 16th and the Haunted Woods on October 16th.
She then began to ask the Junior student body several questions about the new things that have been implemented this year at North. The first question was about the population of the students in Junior year who were involved in clubs and or sports at Middletown North. The majority of the class raised their hand for this questions.
Following this, the next question was,
“What do all of you think about the new lunches this year?”
Hannah Lafargue and Jessie Scala quickly raised her hand to answer this question, stating,
“There's very little variety.” and “It's way to over priced”
Doctor Cartier wrote down their responses, stating she would take everyone's opinion into consideration.
One of the final questions asked was about the new quarterlies that are being implemented this year. Student opinions have varied about this new testing system in replace of midterms and finals. This was clear when students began to cheer and/or boo this question.
As soon as the administrators around the room calmed down the crowd, Dr. Cartier asked if anybody had any questions about the school or this year in general. One eager student, Brittany Sharkey, immediately asked a question that has been a hot topic this year.
“Why are we buying a $30,000 sign when we could be using that money to buy newer books?” stated Brittany.
Doctor Cartier responded with, “We want to be able to promote all of the upcoming school activities and clubs in an easy and efficient way. By having this new, electronic sign, it will be a lot easier to do these things.”
After an awkward silence, it was clear that the junior student body was not pleased with this answer.
Slowly shuffling out of the auditorium as soon as the program was over, the students conversed about several of the things discussed at the program, both positive comments as well as negative.
It was clear that the assembly had been a huge success at informing the populace of the school about the upcoming events, now time will tell how these events and new ideas of the school will work out.
