STAFF EDITORIAL:
It was “our now” last year… how long will our now be this year? Prom is probably one of the ple came up with ideas to just have a biggest events during the school year party, or get all dressed up with a bunch for upperclassmen. Well, what if of your friends and go out to dinner. prom was only until 11p.m.? Would Staying up all night with your anyone go? friends and going out to dinner is all Some students say that they good but you can do that any time you wouldn‟t, because it's not worth it to want. waste all that money on expensive Prom is supposed to be something tickets and a girl's prom special, the time of your dress or a guy's tux that life, the big sha-bang to end “Prom is you only where for a the school year. supposed to be You‟re with your friends few hours anyway. Would you rather having fun, all dressed up, something pay all that money on dancing, watching enterspecial, the time tainment, and taking pictickets and go to the prom until 5a.m. or for the duration of the of your life, tures spend less money on night. It sounds like a magithe big tickets and only go to cal time. Wouldn‟t you prom until 11? Either to have something sha-bang…” want way it‟s a hard decispecial like that? sion. To have it you must fundraise, and To have the perfect prom to end there are many ways to do so this year. your year, it takes fundraising. That‟s You can attend the Mr. FHS conwhat makes it your prom: you fund- test, Battle of the bands, Xbox tournaraise. ment, and the Dodge ball tournament. If Money goes into the hotel where you want to have the prom of your the prom is held, the grand march, the dreams this is the way to do it. entertainment, the food, and so on Help raise money for prom. If not, and so forth. you will either end up paying a lot for So what is there to do if you your tickets or the prom will be shortdon‟t want to attend prom? Some peo- ened: the call is yours.
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AMBRIDGE GOES OVERBOARD Confiscating cell phones till the end of the year? They should have more important things to worry about Meagen Finnerty, Editor-in-Chief Admit it: we‟ve all, at one point or another, been the kid hiding our phones under the desk, in a purse or in a pocket in order to answer a text message. A good majority of students just might sell their souls in exchange for their phones. Here at Freedom, teachers are, for the most part, lenient with cell phones. We can usually have them out when we are working independently or have down time once all of our work is done. At Ambridge, though, things are different. This year, cell phones at Ambridge are banned. Imagine being suspended because you felt the need to pull out your cell phone. Of course, every student would use the trusty old “I was texting my parents” excuse. Honestly though, how often do high school students really text their mothers? I can‟t imagine Freedom ever banning cell phones. It seems as though that
is one battle that just really isn‟t worth fighting. Personally, I know I never leave my house without my phone. I would imagine ninety nine percent of my school is the same way. How would the school successfully collect every phone entering through the doors every morning? Yes, students are going to continually sneak texts in class. Teachers everywhere should take the approach of keeping students too busy to even think about texting than giving us time to be bored enough to. This may seem too simple, but I know that in some of my classes, no one has time to worry about their phones because we are kept busy. Ambridge is going to have its hands full with dealing with every student‟s cell phone every day. Banning cell phones really just is not worth the time or effort it will take to continually enforce that; there have to be other things that need taken care of besides something that trivial.