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| News December 2001, Volume 5, No. 4 |
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District students help victims of terrorist attacks
By Emily W.
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| Peacock students Rebecca K. sixth grade, Ashley C., eighth grade, and Claire Z., sixth grade, assist in gift-wrapping the District 10 United We Stand CD. | |
Three teachers, one from each school, were in charge of this project. At Peacock, that teacher was sixth grade math teacher Mr. Behrendt. Mr. Behrendt says that altogether the CD production cost about $3,000. Different associations in Itasca donated that money.
The CDs are being sold for $10 each, and all the profits will go to the victims of the September 11th bombing. Mr. Behrendt would like the money to go to children affected by the tragedy so that kids in Itasca will be able to help other kids.
Jimmy A. and Ashley C., two eighth graders in Mr. Behrendt's advisory, also worked on the CD project. Both said that the idea for the CD came from Ashley.
The students and Mr. Behrendt agreed that working on the CD was difficult and took lots of time and effort.
"When the project started, I had simple ideas, but when it got further into the process, things got more complicated. An example is when Mr. Cousineau put an ad on the school website. Then we had to figure out how to get the CDs shipped all over the US," said Mr. Behrendt.
"The hardest part for me was organizing it and going to all the meetings," said Jimmy. Despite the hard work, Ashley added that she would definitely do this again.
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All the students helping with the wrapping have one goal. They would each like to be the one who writes the receipt for George W. Bush. |
Throughout December, many Peacock students have attended wrapping parties in Mr. Behrendt's classroom after school. They wrapped 1,500 CDs. Over 800 CDs have already been sold.
Students met again to write receipts for the ordered CDs.
All the students helping with the wrapping have one goal. They would each like to be the one who writes the receipt for George W. Bush. Mr. Behrendt explained that the President had been informed about Itasca's CD, and Mr. Behrendt would like to be able to send him one. He would also like to send CDs to Governor George Ryan, Governor Pataki of New York, and New York City mayor, Rudy Guiliani.
If there are extra CDs, Ashley and Jimmy would like to give them to children at schools near Ground Zero and to the New York Fire Department.
Order information: www.itascaschools.com/cd
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What happened to Mrs. Dau?
By Lyndsey M.
Features Editor
If every other week you are scratching your head because you don't know why your schedule is different, read on.
From the beginning of the year there has been a problem finding a second Spanish teacher. Since the administration couldn't find one for the first quarter, Mrs. Portincaso taught seventh and eighth grade Spanish and Mrs. Sislow taught World Cultures.
This worked out very well. So why did they need a new teacher and those confusing schedule changes?
Well, first of all, Mrs. Sislow cannot teach World Culture all year because she is a substitute teacher, and substitutes can only work for 120 days per year.
Although she would like to become a full time teacher, Mrs. Sislow doesn'tyet have the qualifications to become one. When her days are up she can no longer teach and Mrs. Portincaso cannot manage to teach both World Cultures and seventh and eighth grade Spanish.
A second Spanish teacher is needed because so many Peacock students elected to take Spanish classes. Although schedules will be greatly changed when a new teacher is hired, it will allow more people to be in Spanish.
In October, Dr. Nickisch hired a Spanish teacher, Mrs. Dau. Mrs. Dau had taught Spanish at Wheaton Middle School and Dr. Nickisch thought she would be perfect for the job.
However, she ended up quitting after only one week of teaching. Dr. Nickisch said, "She was unaware and unprepared to teach common time and world cultures."
So the search continues. Dr. Nickisch is looking for a new Spanish teacher and hopes to find one by the end of the second quarter.
If he does, it means we will be going through more schedule changes. More confusion is ahead, but hopefully for the second half of the year we will have a second Spanish teacher.
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