Herald & Lantern 19 September '84 , —

From The Principai By Stanley Kotzen tcipal, Lower Cape May Regional High School

Do you remember the first day of school? Most Americans have experienced at least 12 of them in their lifetime. If you are a professional person the number could climb to 16 or 20, and if you have been a teacher for 20 years you have had 36 opening days. It is always exciting and always hopeful. It is the anticipation and the opportunity to start, literally, with a clean slate that is so intriguing about the first day of school. Every student realizes that his or her name is entered into a grade book, and no marks have yet been placed beside that name. Each youngster starts the year with the knowledge that it> possible to accomplish the academic and social goals that each of them has set for the year. EVERY TEACHER faces the prospect of meeting and adjusting to the new challenge of all new youngsters even if they are teaching the same curriculum for the third or the tenth time. The pupils and their abilities are all new. The combination of youngsters, the times in which we live, the growing gap in their experience compared to ours, the changes that occur physically and emotionally in a youngster over an AVALON BRIDGE RESULTS Sept. M 1 Francis Thatcher 5430 2. Alice Buch S22C 3 Emma Fraim 5110

ll-week period — all of these factors make opening day very special. Of course, there is the ever present expression "Oh, the summer was too short". The griping and grumbling, though, is camouflage. It is posturing and hiding the fact that we are all pretty excited about starting over. Even if you are not by nature a reflective person, think about that for a minute — the chance to start again! Just recall those fust days of school: seeing friends that you have not seen all summer (for teenagers that can seem to be a lifetime), telling one another about summer adventures (real and imagined), looking for new friends, meeting teachers that you have only heard \ about by reputation, get- j ting those new books and/ preparing to attack thev" mysteries of geometry or calculus or Macbeth. AS A PARENT you must know the feeling of awe watching your youngster shop for a "back to school" wardrobe that now includes the "right" sneakers, running shoes (does anybody out there remember "ground grippers"?), "T" shirts, sweatshirts, and jeans. As a teacher, for 17 years I watched these faces that first day and knew that I was being tested, . evaluated, judged, compared, and generally checked out by my students who invariably left the classroom on opening day with an opinion, good or bad, that might take months to reverse. Every one

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