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FFA Plant Sale

There is an upcoming FFA Sponsored Plant Sale! It will begin on April 5th, during our (also FFA sponsored) Family Fun Day. The Family Fun Day will consist of vendors, food trucks, kid games, face painting and bounce houses, and (obviously) the FFA Plant Sale. There will also be raffle ticket selections. Family Fun Day will be held in the GCHS parking lot, near the Community Center.

The plants sold through this sale are grown by Mrs. Brinkley’s Horticulture classes and will include traditional vegetables, flowers, hanging baskets, and houseplants. All proceeds from the Family Fun Day and Plant Sale will go towards funding for the FFA State Convention, which will be held from June 23rd-26th.

If you aren’t able to make it to the Family Fun Day, don’t worry! The Plant Sale will continue from 3:30-5:00 from the 7th-11th of April. You can find FFA Students helping with the sale at the greenhouses behind the Agriculture Building at GCHS. We hope to see you there!

By Courtney Unger

Baron Beat Editor

 

Baron Breakout Feature

I have been waiting for a few weeks to contemplate how to do this article justice. This kind of article takes serious time and consideration before even writing.

As many of our weekly readers know, recently, Baron Beat started featuring a teacher/Baron Breakout weekly. In order to get all of our candidates and information in one spot, I created and sent out a Google Form with questions on it to all of our teachers in the GCHS System. What I did not expect, though, was a response from Mr. Shafer, our theatre teacher.

This year, our school system started doing something new. They split our Performing/Visual Arts teachers into a new schedule, where they teach at GCHS in the morning and move to CMS (our Middle School), and vice versa. One of the teachers affected greatly by this change was Mr. Shafer. Making this change to his schedule has lessened the amount of students we are able to teach here at the High School and has increased the amount of stress put on Mr. Shafer.

In response to our Google Form, Mr. Shafer wrote about how he feels that by giving more theatre opportunities to CMS students, we are taking away more meaningful theatre opportunities from GCHS students. I believe that he is correct. I am fortunate enough to take Mr. Shafer’s theatre class, but I know plenty of students who would love to take his class that can’t because their schedule won’t allow it. I also know from personal experience that Baron Breakout is one of the only times students can participate in Playmakers with Mr. Shafer.

By moving his schedule around to fit the needs of middle school students (who will eventually come up to the High School), we have had to stop having a Playmakers Baron Breakout. This severely cuts down the amount of students participating in an organization that used to have 40+ participants. I decided to write an article about this situation because I feel that our teachers opinion should be heard before our school system makes a decision that impacts our students and teachers.

I hope you found this article informative and helpful in forming your opinion on our community issue. Go Barons!

By Courtney Unger

Baron Beat Editor

 

Spring Break

Spring break is coming soon, and then all the tests after that but we won’t get into all that right now.

We asked students what we were doing during spring break and here are what some of the students said. We got 70 responses and this is what they were.

15 students said that they will be working.12 students said they will just be staying home ( which is probably what I will be doing ). 10 students said vacation, (that sounds very fun– I wonder where those students will be going? Maybe somewhere tropical?). 6 students said they are visiting family; 3 students said digital games; 3 students said reading a book, and two said the HOSA Leadership Convention.

However, the most picked thing to do over spring break with 19 students is to hang out with friends! Hope y’all all do something fun. Go Barons!

By Stella Hofler

Baron Beat Writer

 

High School Freedom

Some things about high school are different from the lower grades. High school is an upgrade, it’s something that everybody needs to succeed and get to the next level in their lives. It can teach you many things and make you experience many new situations as well. Freedom is one of many.

Freedom is something that children only get a taste of every so often in life, it is something they want so badly and they finally get to experience it in high school (for the most part).

In high school, freedom is the thing they let everyone have and most aren’t even prepared to have it. Their choices have bigger effects and consequences than they ever have before!

You may want to know some examples of our freedom. There are many examples of freedom in high school but one of the most enjoyed is the ability to make our own decisions of how and sometimes even when they want to do something. This freedom lets us explore and venture slightly into adulthood. The way we use it can also determine how our life goes. Students are allowed to dive deeper into their academic, career, and social choices which prepare us for our life after high school.

We realize that everything we do does matter. Freedom is only one out of the surplus of things students experience in high school to get prepared to advance into adult life.

By Michael Melton