A New Semester By: Ashley House

Another Christmas and New Year have gone by and we have entered the new semester here at Lake Hamilton. We have our new classes and a new beginning. For a little while, things may be a bit busy while everyone is getting re-adjusted to school again after a good two weeks out for Christmas, plus a five day weekend of snow while people get settled into their classes and teachers are planning out each day. I hope you have had a great break!

               Maybe we can make this semester much better than the last. What kind of improvements can be made to make it better though? Perhaps fewer fights, better behaving, and more respect for one another and the school staff. Imagine how much better we could improve this year if we work together instead of against one another. It would make everything a lot easier. Don’t worry about everything else that’s going on around the school. Just focus on finishing up school, because most things that happen here mean nothing. High school is just three years until your real life starts. If you’ll focus on what’s important which is finishing up school and moving on, then you’ll be out of here sooner than you think. The teen drama that goes on in school isn’t important. It’s whether or not you make it out of school with a diploma in your hand. After that you’ll never have to worry about high school again because those years will be gone and over with; never to be worried about again. So think about it. Let’s make the best of this semester and move on.

                Last semester we had trouble with fights. One way to improve this semester from the last is to stop the fights and if fighting is a problem for you, figure out a better way to settle the disagreements between you and others. There are a lot of bold people in this school and those people are going to give their opinion, but don’t get offended and upset over it.  Lake Hamilton School is a fantastic school and its students have gotten better with not fighting, but it can still be improved. Don’t use violence to settle these problems. Violence causes nothing but more trouble for you and others.

               Respect was also an issue here last semester. You should respect the people around you whether they do or don’t for you. They may be the meanest person in school, but you can still be the better person to them. Being good to them may get rid of any hard feelings they might have for you. You’d just never know what it is that you could do to help them. You create the atmosphere around you, so the way that you act is the way others are going to react. They may still not be kind to you after you’re good to them, but don’t worry. That’s not your problem, it’s theirs. All you need to do is keep a positive attitude and things will be okay.

                Students also need to behave better. The teachers already have enough to deal with while catching other students up in class and so much more. They are not here to babysit. Everyone in this building is at least sixteen to eighteen years old, so we should act like the adults that we will soon be. We just have one semester left. When things get better around here, then your days at school will be better and they may even go by faster. Let’s fix these problems and make it a better semester. We can do anything that we set our minds to.