Field Trip

I have noticed an inflation in the number of field trips being taken lately. There was on today to some restaurant in the southern part of the state. The Economics classes went, but nobody else was invited. Lame. I remember last year, our earth science class was supposed to go to Boston and go to the iMax theatre and the aquarium. We never got to go because apparently there was no money for field trips. Im not sure how all of a sudden there is extra money. The school is paying the teachers way more than they did last year, We are getting a new principal and vice-principal next year, and those aren't cheap. hmmmm....

This has lead me to believe that the Winnisquam Regional School District is involved with the mafia. In exchange for a few "favors" (drug sales), the mafie could supply us with the money needed. And what better place to run a mob operation than that of a high school, which is located in a town where 25% of the population is addicted to meth? There are plenty of customers, plus, they work hand in hand with the police force, so this way the mob gets ahold of a few crooked cops to help pave the way to a new territory.

However, it wouldnt exactly be considered "new" territory. It is widely known that since the mid-seventies the weirs has been a popular summer getaway for mobsters from the Boston-New York area. Sometime during the late eighties there was a mob hit in Laconia, so this is by no means new territory.

I rest my case. Due to lots of new money, and having an excellent environment for their business, I believe that the mafia has in fact taken over the minds of the school board. It is very possible that they have infected superintedant Tammy Davis, but I think that some of her bogus ideas have come from a very rare disease only found in the amazon.....

Boredom

Today was wednesday the thirtieth. There is something special that happened today, can you guess it? That's right, you can't, because nothing ever happens at that godforsaken place we call a high school, or the local library, where I deal with the day to day problems that a local library would go through, which also consists of nothing. My job is boring, my classes are boring, and even my weekends are boring sometimes. But what is boredom? Is it the act of having nothing to do, or does it have to do with things being there to be done but not coming of interest for the bored individual at hand? Or it could just be that one does not have the will to make something interesting, which goes back to sheer laziness. I think that it is mostly laziness, but Im telling you, it takes a great deal of effort to make an entire Algebra 2 class exciting. As hard as I try, I only get these little bits of time where the class necomes non-boring. Lame.

Anyways, Winnisquam seems to cooking up quite alot of boredom lately, and that is no good. That means that teachers are not making class interesting, and therefore not at all productive, except for nerds and geeks, and this leads to lower test scores which eventually lead to losing creditation. Boredom also leads kids to do stupid things just to kill time, in my case that consists of filling out numerous myspace surveys, lame, i know. But in many cases it leads kids to do things like graffitiing the walls of the local elementary school, Vandalizing cars in the school parking lot, or throwing apples at the wall, which I actually did once, and the only good thing that came out of that was that i now have a claim to fame in that i was the first one to ever be caught by the new camera system. I ended up spending an hour with the janitors after school helping to clean up the english wing. I didnt get to attend the pep rally, but the time was spent in Ms. Nelson's class watching "Pimp My Ride". So much better than losing your voice to the cheering competition.

SO in conclusion, i have concluded, that my concluded conclusion has come to the conclusion that the conclusion is that nothing is happening at Winnisquam, but iI can smell something coming real soon...

Dont Ask

The band "The Breathing Method", formerly "The Scarlet Rush", formerly "Say This Sooner", consisting of former squamers Josh Lacroix and Derek Brewer, and current squamer Dan Holway, are not playing a show with Saves The Day. Please dont ask Dan if they are, eighty million people already asked him, and that's annoying.

Tuesday Mornings

This morning was extra crappy because I woke up sick. My head hurts, my throat is scratchy, my shoulder is in pain, i stubbed my toe, and I have a cronic cough that hurts my entire body. And yet, I still ended up in school this morning. However, my mother was kind enough to pick me up after English class, which is why I have found the time to write about the extended weekend.

Saturday was host to a show at the Margate, with our great friends Quick Decision headlining the show. There was another great band there from Belmont called Tuesday Mornings, how ironic. The show was great, but lasted very late into the night, with the final act not finishing up until 11:30.

Sunday night hosted Akon and Ciara at the Meadowbrook/US Cellular Pavillion. I was not planning on goin to this, considering I despise both Akon and Ciara, but my cousin offered me free tickets under the pavillion, so i couldn't argue. I ended up standing right in front of the stage and came very close to receiving the honor of touching Akon. Big Whoop.

I hope that everyone has enjoyed their long weekend, and i hope that you are all ready to get through these last few weeks of school. Finals suck, but as soon as you finish those it's home free.

Wednesdy Woes

Now that I am done summing up Tuesday, I can move onto today's problems. Ms. Nelson seems to think that it is a fun idea to make our research papers due on Friday. Although mine is already complete, after seeing the grades of my fellow compatriots who passed theirs in early, I am quite worried. I have reason to be worried about my grade in there because I only did half of my project on "The Crucible", which was the stupidest play that I haven't read for school in a long time. Yesterday, our third period english class listened to one overly angered female student go on and on about how she deserved a better grade on her paper because she didnt know what the rubrik was etc. etc., blah, blah, blah. If you are reading this right now and you know that you were this particular student please listen to this: Just because your paper sucked, doesnt mean that we have to listen to you bitch about it.

On top of all this, I left my geometry homework at home, so I didn't receive credit for it. I need to start doing my homework for math class, which is much easier said than done. I can now vision myself, the night before the end of the quarter, finishing all of my make-up work for all of my classes. I know that this will happen becausei t has every time so far this year.

And on top of all of that, I was once again forced to shelve books at the local library for minimum wage. I find this very demeaning, especially becasue I just want to have a normal teenager job. For example: bagging groceries, putting clothes back on the rack at a department store, or waiting tables at a filthy run-down diner. While I am not exactly sure ho whealthy it would be to work at one of these places, it sure as hell would be more fun than working at the library.

Tuesday and Wednesday Have Officially Merged

In last night's laziness, I found myself watching television until almost ten 'o' clock, and then getting into the shower. After taking an elongated shower, I thought to myself, "I should probably go and write about today's happenings on the blog". Of course, I didnt end up doing that because there was no blog for anyone to read yesterday. I simply decided that it was bedtime and I soon fell asleep while listening to yet another brilliant episode of loveline.

So, therefore, I have officailly decided to write about yesterday today. I woke up much later than usual because my four dollar alarm clock decided to be lame and not go off, therefore I was forced to be woken up by a stiff jabbing motion to the spine by my less-than-impressed father. Anyways, I missed the bus and that kind of screwed up my morning. The day at Winnisquam went by rather uneventfully, with our little friend, Tyler Prue, not showing up. He is an embarrasment to his family, the town of Tilton, and The Winnisquam Schoold District. Nobody likes him already, and stealing the most favored radio host in the area's cell phone is not going to help his ego.

I had to serve my detention after school with Ms. Keane, who is a nice person at heart, but seems to be having a hard time acting as a normal human being. Her moods swing back and forth like that of a woman going through menopause....

Anyway, I only had to stay for about fifteen minutes, and then went to my grandmother's house to mow her lawn. Later, I ate some of the finest pizza in the land at G.G's pizzeria and deli, located next to Cumberland Farms. It's good stuff.

Wow.

I just read a blog called Everest 2007, and it is about the journey that these people have been taking to the top of Mt. Everest. Congratulations to them, and definite props.

Just Another Manic Monday

It seems that almost every monday, I can hear that song playing in the back of my mind all throughout the day. It has come to my attention that there was an arrest made at school today, involving one of my least favorite people in the world, Tyler Prue. It appears that Tyler was the little bastard who stole Fred Caruso's cell phone. (Yes Fred Caruso from 94.1 FM, he's totally our varsity baseball coach.)

Anyways, with that being said, I will move on to news about the JV baseball team. Today, as I was forced to make the trek to Hopkinton on the bus with the rest of the team, I realized that baseball was not fun and that its is just taking up time. Lame. I hope I never play baseball for Winnisquam again, but I am sure that I'll be back playing again next spring. After making this stupidly obnoxious voyage down interstate 89, we lost 4-2. Losing just made it even more time-wasting.

The JV softball team lost as well, but that has become fairly commonplace for them, no offense intended. Our JV baseball team was equally as bad last year, with a 2-8 record. ehh.

So, for closing notes on Monday: Tyler Prue is a sneaky little bastard, Both JV baseball and softball suck, Fred Caruso is awesome, and Manic Monday is a good song.

Quick Decision

This is a video of the band Quick Decision preforming live, featuring Winnisquam's own, John Reifsnyder on drums. They are definetly a sick badn, so you all should check them out. They are performing the song, "Invasion Of A New".

Im Not Engaged

I found a blog called infinite thinking today, and it says that a student not engaged is a student not learning. That's a load of crap. I dont think I am engaged in class even half the time I am at school, but I still manage to learn stuff. I know my formulas in geometry, and I know greek gods for english class, but I am rarely ever engaged.

The only kids that are engaged in class are the ones who are seriously there to learn, and I have nothing against them, I just have this philosophy: A smart kid does their homework, A smarter kid finds a way to get on honor roll with minimal amounts of effort involved. I just want to get through high school, so I can go to college and be engaged in a class that I wanted to take in the forst place, not one that I wasa forced to take by the state of New Hampshire.

I would also like to take this time to copmment on the No child left behind act, given to us by our wonderful president George Bush. It basically states that every child gets an equal shot at education. Sounds good, but that also means no gifted classes for the smart kids, and no slower classes for the dumb kids. Everyone just gets jumbled into one class. This act forced the Winnisquam Middle School to completely cut off funds for their gifted program.

Where does this leave the kids that actually want to be at school? In a class filled with speds and stoners. On the other end of the spectrum, where does this leave the kids with special needs? In a class with kids smarter than them. They always teach us about self-esteem, now they are simply ruining the self-esteem of the retarded kids.

I think President Bush should read "Howard Bergeron", by Kurt Vonnegut. It is a short story, only sven to to ten pages at most. Actually everyone should read it, so that they can see where our world has headed.

Things That One Cannot Do In Ms. Keane's Room

For those of you that dont know, Ms. Keane is the substitute filling for Mrs. RIng while she tends for her newborn baby, which will be the rest of the year. While Mrs. Ring was far more annoying, Ms. Keane isn't a barrel of monkeys either. These are some things that you CANNOT do while present in room 227 at Winnisquam Regional High School.

1. First and foremost, DO NOT lean on the desks. Whether it is leaning back, or simply just putting weight on the desk while diligently working on your quiz, just dont do it. My suggestion is to train yourself to keep your hands below your desk, in your pockets or something, so that when she tries to yell at you, you can explain that your hands were below the desk and that it is not possible with the current desk structure to commit such acts of leaning without ones hands being on top of said desk in question.

2. Do Not Eat Saltines. I am sure that very soon, this will change to no eating at all, but that is only a guess. This rule came about when Alex Evangelo wanted to try and eat ten saltines in a minute, he began by stuffing five in his mouth at once, and then laughing histerically at our disgusted faces, spewing saltines into the far right corner of the room. Then, David Andrus wanted to try, so he took some more saltines and began eating them, but this seemed to be boring for him, so he began throwing the saltines at Alex. By the end of first period spanish 2, there was a large pile of saltines in the back of the room.

3. Do Not throw things to people that cannot catch. This will result in a detention, which i had to find out the hard way. I have mentioned this before, so as not to be repetitive, I will leave it at this. Kyle Sarber can't catch Gatorade bottles. Even when he knows they are coming.

Do Not show her someone else's homework claiming that it is your own. Especially when somebody else's name is scribbled across the top. I took note of this new rule yesterday when the ever intelligent David Andrus tried to show Ms. Keane Derick Jennes' homework. This is how it unfurled:

David: "Ms. Keane!! I found my homework!"
Keane: "Good Job David!!, just let me come and make sure you did it all"
David: "It's all done, its all here" hands teacher homework
Keane: "David, it says Derick Jennes right on the top of it"
David: "DAMMIT!!!!DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!!!!"
Keane: "Why would you lie to me David?"
David: "Go Away."
Keane: "You didnt answer my question"
David: "Nobody wants to listen to you Ms. Keane, just go away"

Poor David, and poor Ms. Keane. SHe has been blessed by an angel from hell to receive a job at beautiful WRHS.

Lets Make a Quick Decision About Friday

Alright, so I accidentally skipped Friday, because I, unlike many a student at WRHS, have a life and was out doing things with it. However, I woke up extra early to write about friday's events. Unfortunately, the only cool thing that happened yesterday was me getting a confirmation that there WAS in fact a fight during fifth period thursday. I still dont know the names of those involved, but I know that it was two white trash girls throwing glass bottles at each other, and then screaming and yelling exploitives at the top of their lungs. Rather cliche, but at least something happened last week.

I suppose my detention is worth mentioning as well. Adding to the list of things that cannot be done in Ms. Keanes room, along with leaning on the desks, are eating saltines, and giving people their water bottle back. Saltines never used to be a problem, until my good friends David Andrus and Alex Evangelo thought it would be fun to crumple them up and hurl them against the back wall. This, I can say, is an understandable rule in my first period spanish class, however, the forthcoming is not.

Apparently, when one cannot cathc his waterbottle being given back to him, the thrower of said water bottle gets a consequence. I originally thought that I had received a detention for throwing the bottle, which is a little bizarre, but i could understand. However, upon receiving the detention slip, it read: "Threw water bottle at Kyle Sarber's face" Gimme a break lady. He saw the bottle coming at him after i had picked it up off the floor for him, but he flinched or something and the bottle hit him in the head. Poor Kyle.

I would like to take this time that Kyle Sarber is one of the coolest kids in the world, and I would never have a reason to throw a water bottle at his head, unlike that of the white trash girls fighting during fifth period.

So i suppose that Friday was somewaht eventful, ending with Quick Decision, a band including our very own John Reifsnyder on drums, winning the Pembroke battle of the bands. They pretty much kicked ass, so props to those guys.

Thursday, Thursday....

Yet again, I was forced to shelve books at my dead end job at the local library. Lame-o. However, I had the opportunity to go to Dairy Queen and buy myself a misty float. Grape Misty Floats are heaven. I love them.

I also love the fact that there is an office located at room 228 that gets students set up with internships. I was able to sign up for one myself today, so that is pretty awesome.

Anways... I heard that there was a fight today during fifth period, but rumors havent been confirmed yet. I dont even know who it was that was fighting, I just heard that there was a fight and that it was pretty uneventful. We havent seen a good fight in a long time, not since Ed Hill very succesfully warded off attacks from Steven Straight, who seemed to think that there was some "shit talking" involving Ed. Probably a bad idea for Steve, who nobody likes anyway. Stupid Steve.

There was definetly alot of pictures of Winnisquam students in today's "Winnisquam Echo". Mostly in the sports section, so check it out.

The end is near

I learned today that in the near future, our school will be watched by several professionals to see if we have earned the governments certification. WE are, as I am sure you all know, screwed. Without accreditation, we receive no funding, and colleges dont have to accept our credits. No more college diploma for me.

With that through, it was yet another boring day at winnisquam. Nothing exciting has happened all week, and I am getting frustrated. I feel a definite negative energy in the hallways this week. That negative nergy ended up in me not getting a ride to work today, and being forced to walk through the terrible downpour to my dead end job putting books on the shelf of a local library. LAME!!!!!

Mrs. Rand(dont even get me started on her) had one of her famous biology tests today. One of those tests where she didnt teach the class the majority of the stuff on the test, which really pisses alot of people off. Maybe whenm those "professionals" look at our school, they will be able to tell that she is incompetant and an imbucile. Like I said, dont even get me started.

I also learned a valuable lesson in Ms. Keane's class today. DO NOT LEAN ON THE DESKS!!!!! Just lean on the desk next time you are in her class and see what happens. just trust me on this one, you wont get in that much trouble.

Tuesday, Tuesday

Tuesday is a day that seems to get lost in the mix alot. It is not as awkward as monday, and not nearly as exciting as Friday. It's just another day that lies in an unfortunate spot during the week.

Today, there was junior testing of some sort, they seem to be testing alot these days. I have heard from many a junior that these tests are not at all fun in any way, shape, or form. It is obvious why the school is using the juniors. They recently found that the juniors were the first class in almost a decade to pass the standardized tests for the year. The schoolboard knows that there was no change in the teaching styles, because at least half of our staff seems to be incompetent. The juniors appear to be a smart class overall.

Speaking of competency, very soon there should be a post up with a statistical breakdown of every department. Many people's opinions, along with lots of research, will be put into that post. If you have any opinions on the competency or uncompetency of any teacher, e-mail me at favsk8snow@yahoo.com . Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

We need more hits here at the site, so tell everyone you know about the new winnisquam blog. There should be some posters around school at some point in the near future, so be on the lookout for those.

Yet Another Monday

Today was not at all a fun day. But what the hell was i expecting?, it's friggin monday!!! I think the mutual hate for Mondays is much like that for people in our school that go by the name of Tyler Prue. Monday is that bastard child that doesnt quit talking, touching, and screwing around. I hate both Mondays and Tyler Prue.

However, usually Mondays seem to have something eventful occur partway through the day. For example, a heated argument over some random girl from a party over the weekend that two guys seem to have to "discuss" in the lunch room. Today was quite contrary. Nothing fun happened, and the day went on like a usual Thursday.

That could possibly mean that the stars have flipped and Thursday will be more like a monday. That would mean that said heated argument would be even more heated come thursday, or in this case the new monday, and make for an even bigger fight with more food throwing and name calling and face-punching action one would expect from a disney channel movie. Damn Disney Channel Movies.

I believe that class elections were posted today, and those results will be posted as soon as they are found out.

Have a happy rest of Monday, or thursday for that matter

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Saturday

It is a saturday morning and i am awake at nine o clock. Pitiful. However, the track team was up and ready to go this morning bright and early for their meet at Newfound. The meet doesnt even start until ten, but the coaches seemed to think it would be fun to arrive at around 8:30. I wonder about those track coaches sometimes. The guys coach, who is also a janitor at WRHS, seems to be an alright guy. However, the throwing coach, Powell, I believe stares at the behinds of our young women of winnisquam. Not so cool. When you're in your mid twenties and dont even have a girlfriend, something has gone wrong. Duffy, who was my english teacher in seventh grade, doesnt seem to care about anyone on the team, she just wants them to run so that they can earn points for the team.

I think it is pathetic that coaches feel so compelled to win that they put the well-being of their athletes second. It is alright to want to win, however, this is high school and it's not like Winnisquam has a reputation of being an awesome athletic school. We are proud to say that our football team is rated as the second worst in the country. GOOOOOOOOOO BEEEEEAAARRRSSSS!

Really though, our football team is a disgrace, and nobody goes to watch them because their field is a few miles away next to the Tilton Outlet Malls. They arent even allowed to play at the school, thats how disgraceful they are. Whatever, most of WRHS doesnt even care, our student body seems to made up of whores stoners for the most part. (OOPS! who said that?)

There are the occasoinal good apples though, but they are a dying breed. Just one look at downtown Tilton and Northfield, and one would instantly realize that this entire are is losing it's potential very quickly. But hey, we could be living in Franklin, official armpit of New Hampshire.

Athletics

The Winnisquam Bears JV baseball team totally demolished the Moultonborough JV team. This is a very good thing for the baseball program, which has been sluimping as of late, but the team is seeing a total lack of motivation. Nobody wants to be there. Even when the team is winning everyone just wants to go home, except for individuals named Jason McDonald that seem to have no life outside of Baseball and Sportscenter.

This leads me to another point. I was listening to the JV coach talk about how jumping on trampolines hurts his back. You know that your age has begun to catch up to you when activities that promote fitness make your body worse. Growing older is not at all something I am especially looking forward to, but I suppose that it has to hapen someday.

To hell with it, maybe I'll die an early death in some type of unnecessary and flambuoyant fashion before I grow old. That wouldnt be so bad.

In other news, I have heard through the gigantic grapevine of rumors that votes will not be counted for the class elections until tuesday. Seriously, what kind of geniouses do we have to hire with our tax money to count a few hundred votes? Come on people.

The Infamous First Post

This is the first of what I hope will be many posts on the daily squamer, a blog created to deal specifically with the daily goings-on of Winnisquam Regional High School and it's many flaws.

As i write this first post, I am sitting, incredibly bored, at the second computer on the left of our media center. I should be in fym class, but Ms. Dutton is sick and I asked the teacher if I could come to the library. Nothing exciting has happened today, so I suppose the only thing we are looking forward to is the announcement of who won for class president, and even most people dont even care about that.

The "lockdown" yesterday proved to be a large disappointment, considering nothing exciting even came of it. I think that it really is beginning to show why we have such low test scores when a student mistakes a telephone worker for a dangerous man. However, we were able to get out of class for about fifteen minutes and it killed some time for all of us, who were more than likely on the verge of falling asleep, and would have, had class continued to go along as planned.

The lunch hour is almost upon us, so i must make my way back down to the bottom floor, where I can devour the less than cooked meals provided for us by SYSCO.

That las comment reminds of a paper I read today in english class, written by an anonyomous student. I have included a quote at the bottom that somewhat reflects the on the intelligence of certain members of the school board.

"they took away the highly conventional snack corner, because they believed that certain students were over-eating the provided confections. Hey, you cant live off of the chicken patties either"
- Anonymous