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Editorial The Eagle’s Nest • Spring Edition • April 2007
From the Principal’s pen:
Hang in there... It is hard to believe that we are now entering the last six weeks of the school year. It has certainly been a year full of activity, growth, and academic success. I want to encourage you to stay true to the course over these last few weeks and not allow your grades to slip. These last few weeks will also make the difference for some of you as far as passing or failing a class. I want to encourage you to do your absolute best these last few weeks. Many of our students will be taking Gateway Tests the first week of May. These tests will be given in Algebra I, English 10, and Biology I. Your grade on these tests will count 1/7th of your semester average in the class. The score will also become part of
your permanent record. I hope you will spend the next few weeks in review for the Gateway Exams. I encourage you to come to school on test day ready to do your absolute best. Remember, these scores will be back about a week after the test is taken. We are only a few days away from our Junior/Senior Prom. Prom night is always one of the most exciting nights during the school year. I know that many of you have spent a lot of time and money getting ready for the Prom. I want to encourage you to be very careful on Prom night. There are more high school students killed on the night of their Prom then on any other night. I cannot bear to think of us losing a student due to making a bad choice on Prom night. I hope you have a great time and that Prom night will be a time of great memories and not bitter regrets. I look forward to seeing you there.
Perspective:
Are you who you are? spend the sum of our lives behind façades and pretenses. We will never truly feel at A wise man once said, “I’d rather be ease, for we will have lost ourselves in hated for who I am, than loved for who what others expect and desire of us. Those of us who are brave enough I’m not.” And a wise class once chose this as their senior quote. That wise man to complete this step must then realize was Kurt Cobain. The wise class was the the difference between our friends and RCHS Class of 2007. As a member of this our acquaintances. The ones who laugh class, I was thrilled to learn we had picked in joy rather than mockery when we fall are our friends. Those such a bold statement. who do not draw away However, I wondered at in disgust when we shed how much truth was in If we are to live by tears are our friends. this declaration. The idea in this avowwhat we proclaim as Those for whom we wear certain clothes, listen to al is ingenious and in a a class, then we must the “right” music and sense revolutionary. By first accept ourselves watch the “right” televithis I mean were all people to take this to heart, before we expect it of sion shows are not our friends. live and breathe by it, others. After this recogniour world would be free tion, we can then begin of judgment. Free of the to surround ourselves unpopular, the “losers,” with the people who fit and also of the idolized. in this definition of a Clearly that is not the friend. world in which we live. Once we are with those people and Now if you have never felt disparaged by your peers, have never decried those peers we live expressing who we are, then we yourself, or have never strived to impress are prepared to face the pessimists and said peers, then you need not read on. cynics. We will be ready because we will However, if you are guilty of these hum know we have people who love us, and believe that who we are is all right. an tendencies then do continue. It is then that we will be able to proIf we are to live by what we proclaim as a class, then we must first accept our- fess truthfully that we would rather be selves before we expect it of others. If we hated for who we are, than loved for who aren’t satisfied with who we are, we will we are not. By ANDREA KENDALL ANDREA@RCHSEAGLESNEST.ORG
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The Eagle's Nest R H E A C O U N T Y H I G H S C H O O L’ S S T U D E N T N E W S P A P E R
Riley Brewer and Andrea Kendall Editors Courtney Jordan and Cory Smith Layout Jeff Ferrell George Hudson Adviser Adviser
Riley Brewer Courtney Jordan Andrea Kendall Senior Staff
Kelli French Jimmy Keltch Shane Walker
Bryan Boling Alex Green Kaity Kopeski Cory Smith Rachel Thurman Junior Staff
Beth Fore Alex Janow Ryan Smith Craig Williamson
The Eagle’s Nest 405 Pierce Rd. Evensville, TN 37332 Phone: (423) 775-7821 Fax: (423) 775-7889 Email: info@rchseaglesnest.org Web site: http://www.rchseaglesnest.org