Conducting class during fourth period has become a difficult
task for teachers regardless of where their classrooms are located.
Noise that is prevalent mostly between the hours of 11 :30 and
1:00 has numerously interrupted routine class procedures.
Besides this time, fifth and sixth periods are being conducted under disturbances, too. With spring and warmer weather approaching students who have been loud, inconsiderate, and obnoxious in the halls will go outside to escape confinement within the walls. This would be all right if noise would not increase, however, the recent heat waves have proved that this noise does increase. With windows being opened for cool air, bothersome noise enters also.
It is my opinion that these disturbances are avoidable. Students who are causing the noise are a small minority of the student body. By their interruptions, the fourth period has become a most unsettled class hour for students and teachers alike.
Something can be done. Teachers with free periods, with the help of students, can patrol the halls to bring noisemakers to justice and silence, leaving those interested students a chance to study (provided they are actually interested). The administration can enforce currently weak discipline rules concerning hall behavior and freedom to roam the campus indiscriminately.
Until something constructive is done toward elimination of these unpleasant disturbances, we will have to put up with the current trend of interfered education. How long will this be? Hopefully some action will start to combat this problem TODAY!
Most of Grady's seniors were born in 1953, and very few of them can find much of anything to enjoy. The mural "features" everything from dancing maidens in a sylvan glade to working young men, all with Grady High School in the background.
Esthetically speaking, the drawing holds little beauty to much of the student body. Other wise, it is totally ignored by those who venture down to the cafeteria for lunch.
The SOUTHERNER staff believes that the mural is not in the least sense esthetically pleasing and that it should be removed. Perhaps, a student bulletin board to be used as an information post for student affairs could be placed there. There could also be other uses for the back wall of the cafeteria where the mural is now situated. However, the SOUTHERNER asks the school administration to take down the eighteen-year old mural as soon as possible.