BACK TO SCHOOL
COMMUNITY JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL
presents
"IN G•D'S IMAGE: JUDAISM AND CARE FOR THE HUMAN BODY"
A Dynamic Session Featuring:
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Making High School Fun
PARK SYNAGOGUE, CLEVELAND, OHIO
Take the hassle out of high school with
the following helpful tips.
Workshops on Sexuality,
Self Esteem, Substance Abuse
and Other Issues Affecting Teenagers
DIANE JACOBS
Special to The Jewish News
Sunday, September 10 10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
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OPEN TO ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1989
Together,
there's so much
good we can do.
L
et's dismiss the cus-
tomary back-to-school
dialogue about how
summer ends too fast and
how school drags on too long.
Ready or not, the camp buses
will fade away like a happy
camp song echo, and reappear
in regiments to drive you
back to school. Back to school.
The phrase evokes different
feelings in each student, and
that's the way it ought to be.
Yet, there are some universal
tips to follow in order to make
the new school year really
"new" and, ideally, at least a
little bit special.
1) Define The Word "New"
Cynics, listen up: School is
not one incredibly long year
composed of dozens of terms
and semesters that blend to-
gether, indiscernable from
each other. Unless you are liv-
ing in a time warp, each
school year is different. It
takes no mental giant to see
that 12th grade is different
from first grade. However, it is
sometimes necessary to re-
mind yourself that each year
of high school is very dif-
ferent, too. It can be very easy
to say, "Hey, school is just
school. It's always the same
old stuff." But that isn't so.
Lots of new things always
happen in the chunk of time
from September to June.
Take a lesson from teachers,
who are very good at defining
"new." Teachers know that a
new year holds new possibili-
ties; frankly, that's one of the
nicest aspects of being a
teacher. There's a whole new
group to teach, a whole new
schedule, a whole new chance.
Never mind that Shakespeare
hasn't altered a line and a
predicate is still a predicate
. . . the teacher knows that
there will be a new student in
each seat and each row, and
that new groups create new
interactions. That's the point
— a new year equals new
opportunities.
Look at all the little kids
traipsing blissfully to elemen-
tary school. Weren't you a
blissful little traipser once?
Try to get that feeling back.
It's called Enthusiasm.
2) Get The Whole Menu
Whether you have been in-
credibly active in after-school
activities or have never been
involved at all, you owe it to
yourself to look into the full
range of extracurricular ac-
tivities in your high school.
Brace yourself: Your high
school may offer an activity
you would enjoy. It might
seem that calculus homework
and English term papers are
all the school activity one
could want at day's end, but
high school does not exist for
word problems and composi-
tions alone. Plenty of ac-
tivities are going on after the
last bell of the day. At least,
find out what you're missing:
Most high schools offer
clubs to suit nearly every hob-
by and interest. How do you
get into a club? You go to a
meeting. (Most meetings are
announced over the morning
announcements on the
school's public address
system.) If you feel uncomfort-
able about taking the club-
meeting plunge, consider that
no student has ever been
hoisted out of a chair and
tossed into the hallway for at-
tending a club meeting. (And
the last I heard, if you don't
like the meeting, you're free
to leave.)
3) Start Something
If you don't find an extra-
curricular activity that suits
your taste, you may very well
be able to create one. In many
schools, starting a club re-
quires filling out a couple of
forms for the Student Govern-
ment Association, getting ap-
proval from the administra-
tion and finding a teacher to
sponsor the club. The latter is
the toughest, and you may
want to recruit a friend to
help you. Chances are, you
will find a teacher willing to
donate his or her classroom
and time after school for your
club meetings.
4) Find your Sense of Humor
Let's fact it: School is often
funny. Students are often fun-
ny. Teachers are often funny.
Sometimes, all of the above
are intentional, but isn't it
even funnier when they're
not? Go ahead and indulge
yourself: List the five funniest
things you saw in school last
year. Does the recollection
bring a smile?
It's good to remember the
funny moments that can oc-
cur in a place where hundreds
of people of different ages,
abilities and interests have
come together to learn and to
grow.
5) Accept And Congratulate
This trip is the toughest. It
requires a healthy balance of
accepting who you are now
without giving up on all the
wonderful potential for the
person you have yet to be-
come.