Volume 2, Number 6 CliNtoNVille, WisCoNsiN February 2014

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We Care For Kids Helps Community

anastasia HUBER | chs intern

CLINTONVILLE - There are many programs that support the local stu-dents, but not many are donations all made by the teachers. We Care for Kids is on of those programs.

We Care for Kids is a program at the middle school that supports any child in need.

The group provides children in need winter clothes like coats, hats and mittens.

We Care for Kids started at a staff Christmas party years ago by a group of great teachers such as Kim Klister, Ralph Wil-liams, David Lemmenes, Peg Johnson, Pat Schley, Jill Sharp and many other caring individuals who de-cided to make Christmas a little brighter for students who may be in need.

Teachers love to make

sure that students are cared for and protected.

The first couple years the We Care for Kids pro-gram was only during the Christmas and winter sea-sons.

The program has changed and grown over the years as the needs of the students have.

The group no longer just concentrate on giving at Christmas but through-out the school year.

If a child is in need of a winter jacket, new pair of shoes, or just clothes in general, the money from We Care is there for a staff member to purchase those necessities for the student.

If a teacher feels that a student is in need of any clothes. The teacher can use the funds to provide the student with the need-ed supplies.

Kim Klister stated “I’ve

lost count as to how many students we have helped over the years, but it has been quite a few!”

There are many unique thing about the program. One of the unique things is the program is 100% driven by monetary do-nations from teachers and staff.

For years the group has had raffles at Christmas parties and bake sales to raise money for We Care.

The last few years the program has tried some-thing different in that the staff donates $1.00 every Friday to We Care and in return that person is al-lowed to wear jeans to work!

This is a great incentive for the teachers and the students.

(Information provided by Kim Klister who is the director of We Care for Kids.)

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Downside, Dangers of Social Media Outlinedmorgan ANDERSON | chs intern

CLINTONVILLE - When people hear “So-cial Media” most people think of Facebook. How-ever there are many other forms of social media that most parents don’t realize their kids have access to. Most commonly, Face-book, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest are the fa-vored social medias, but recently there have been new ways for societies personal lives to become even more public.

Parents try to protect children from the social side of growing up, but now a days it has become very hard. New apps such as, SnapChat, Hot or Not, Vine, Kik, and Tumblr have become very popu-lar with the “tween” age

group. 350 million photos are

uploaded to Facebook a day, and over 400 mil-lion tweets are sent every day. This shows just how much time is being spent sharing the latest update in your life.

Many people say social media helps with busi-ness, which is a proven fact, however it may have some negative affects on teens. Teens who use Facebook tend to be more narcissistic, antisocial, and even aggressive. This leads to a common issue: Cyberbullying.

Cyberbullying unfor-tunately leads to an in-creased rate of Suicide. Suicide is the third lead-ing cause of death among young people and results in about 4,400 deaths per year according to the CDC. For every person that commits suicide, there are typically 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school stu-dents have considered sui-cide, and sadly, almost 7 percent have attempted it.

Bullying was around

before the Internet but cyber bullying makes it much easier to bully peo-ple. Bully victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, and according to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bul-lies or victims of bully-ing. This has resulted in 160,000 kids to stay home from school every day be-cause of a fear of bullying.

The best way to try and monitor your chil-dren’s online public social life on Facebook is to be “friends” with your child. If they won’t “friend” you, it is usually a sign that maybe something is going on. Many teens don’t think before posting things on websites. Most parents say “If Grandma wouldn’t want to hear it, don’t post it.” This works for some kids but some still don’t understand the full effect that the unnec-essary posting has on their future.

Thinking about the fu-ture and what you plan to do for the rest of your life

How do you say that in...English: Happy Valentines Day!

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is something teens don’t start thinking about until later on in high school. However, everything they do now can have an effect on future college accep-tance letters and job ap-plications. Once you post, tweet, upload, or send it, its online for EVERY-ONE to see and can never be fully removed. This includes your own school administrators, college boards, job interview-ers, and anyone else who would like to see the way you show yourself to the community.

More than 2.5 million websites have combined with Facebook meaning many adds are placed on Facebook. Some of which are inappropriate for chil-dren to see. This is the same for Twitter. There may not be as many ads on Twitter, however the content of Twitter in and of itself is not well moni-tored. Celebrities that children may look up to post things that are some-times inappropriate which in turn leads children to believe they can do the same.

Since the invention of the “smartphone,” social media has skyrocketed. 56 percent of adults in America own a smart-phone and as of March 2013, 78 percent of teens now have a cell phone. 47 percent of those teens own smartphones. 4.2 billion people use a mobile de-vice to get to social sites

which explains the incred-ible increase in the last few years.

It is understood that teens will not give up social media completely. The reccomedation is to use it wisely and in moderation. They ask that you think before you post. How would you feel about your employers see-ing what you have posted or your parents or grand-parents?

One of the most preva-lent issues found with teen girls is stalking. Never post private information like your cell phone num-ber, address, schedule, so-cial plans, etc. People can track you down, any time,

day or night. Do not give them the opportunity to know more than what you are comfortable with.

It needs to be under-stood that social media is a good benefit to our co-munities when used ap-propriately. Children need to be careful with their postings and the informa-tion on their profiles.

This is becoming a way of life for many and it will continue to be a growing trend among the entire population. All age groups are engaged in many types of social me-dia. Everyone is waiting to see what new form of social media will be the next “big thing.”

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With the blustering cold outside I love to stay inside wrapped in a warm blanket.

This weekend I finally got to relax and enjoy a weekend without homework, since semester just ended.

I watched some pretty amazing movies, “It’s Kind of A Funny Story”, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, and “Silver Linings Playbook”. They were all quirky with a dark sense of humor, that I like, but the one thing that connected these movies was mental illness.

There is a huge stigma about mental illness. I feel that people are afraid to talk about mental illness. People feel ashamed that they have a mental illness, and people feel uncomfortable talking about it.

This article is not going to change the stigma of a mental illness, but maybe it will open peoples eyes to the world of a mental illness.

In “Its Kind of a Funny Story” one of my favorites quotes is “It’s nothing to be ashamed of, [...] Depression is a medical illness. If you were diabetic, would you be embarrassed by that?”

That really hit me.

People with depression or any mental illness DO NOT choose to have a mental illness. They do not choose to be constantly harassed or judged because of something they cannot control. Please think before you speak.

People need to stop using mental illness as and adjective. They have a disease, not a description.

Mental illness is like fighting a war where the enemy’s strategy is to convince you that the war isn’t actually happening.

Mental illnesses are not taken as seriously as physical illnesses.

For example a student can call in sick for school because they are sick, with a cold or their stomach hurts, but they can not call in sick because their mind hurts.

Students can’t tell the teachers “I didn’t do my homework because I was too depressed or was having an anxiety attack.” The teacher would just think they were lying.

I feel that schools should have a class or a program about mental illness. If children are informed maybe people would be less disrespectful.

Mental illness is the huge elephant in the room and it shouldn’t be . Many

people have mental illness and they should not be ashamed of it.

Another stigma about mental illness is that adults are the only ones who can have it. Mental illness does not have an age limit. Teenagers and children can have mental illness too.

Almost one fourth of the United States population has some sort of a mental illness.

An advocate of mental health is actor Stephen Fry, who has bipolar disorder.

He has been quoted saying, “You can’t accuse a depressed person of not being depressed. You don’t know what it’s like inside their head.”

He has also stated, “You wouldn’t ask why someone got cancer or diabetes or asthma like it was their fault. You wouldn’t say: ‘What have you got to get cancerous about?’” (Alastair)

He sums it up perfectly. People with mental illness’ are just that, people.

They are not crazy. They are Human. We are all human. We have to stick together.

As Malcom X says,“When ‘I’ is replaced

with ‘we’ even illness becomes wellness.’

The Stigma

anastasia HUBER | chs intern

CLINTONVILLE - Laney Anton, a senior at Clintonville High School, has been chosen as the Trucker Times Artist of the Month for February 2014.

Anton is the daughter of Terri Strong.Anton likes art because she “likes how

you can express yourself though your art, and you can be your own person. No one can tell you that you’re doing something wrong.”

A quote she likes about art is “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

Her favorite medium is pencil.She has loved art since she was little. She painted the Blink-182 chair,

above, and even got recognized by the brother of one of the band members on twitter for the piece.

One of her inspirations is Tom De-Longe. It is her favorite musician. A quote that has inspired her was “there are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.”

She also want to thank her mom and brother for pushing her creative abilities.

“I’m extremely thankful for having them in my life.” says Anton.

Artist of the Month

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morgan ANDERSON | chs intern

CLINTONVILLE - As semester ends many stu-dents say goodbye to their classes and are excited to start new ones. However, a group of students at the high school have created many new friendships throughout the semester that they will never forget.

Mrs. Long, a teacher at the middle and high schools here in Clinton-ville, has worked in part-nership with Melissa Wait to organize a very unique experience every year.

Long’s Health Occupa-tions Class has set aside time every Tuesday for the entire last semester to walk across the street to Green Tree Health and Rehabilitation Center. There, the students met with the same resident weekly and planned fun activities to do with the residents. Some students

decorated cookies, played cards, and one group even helped their resident cre-ate a Facebook page! Sometimes the residents would have requests for things to do and students worked hard to plan the activity, while keeping the residents varying abilities in mind.

The overall goal of visiting the center is to open the student’s eyes to the many occupations in the health field. Some students have begun tak-ing CNA courses already in high school and plan to further their education to be nurses, doctors, and even surgeons. This expe-rience gives them a very small but helpful look at the geriatric age group and an idea of what they might have to do in their particular career.

Students were able to sit in on physical therapy sessions with their resi-

dents and sometimes even see the nurses administer medicine. Students are not able help with the medical side of taking care of the residents, but were able to help out physically and mentally.

Earlier in the semester, students learned about holistic health. This idea is focused on the person as a whole, and consists of psychological, physi-cal, and social health. Students were reminded to keep that idea in mind when working with the residents every week.

After a semester of weekly visits, students have become very at-tached to their residents and many are planning to continue their regular vis-its outside of school. The class would like to thank the staff at Green Tree and Mrs. Long, for giving them this great opportu-nity to learn.

Students Bond with Residents

anastasia HUBER | chs intern

C L I N T O N V I L L E - Students from Clinton-ville High School partici-pated in the second Math league of the 2013-2014 school year on January 22, 2014

Math league is a com-petition where students from around central Wis-consin compete in a math contest. Students go to UW-Stevens Point and take a test for one hour. There are three sections that participate in Math league, geometry, algebra and advanced mathemat-ics. There are four stu-dents that take the test per section. There are three competitions over the

course of the year. After the three competitions the scores from all the meets are added up and the school with the highest score is the winner.

The geometry stu-dents that participated in this meet were Shelby Keller, Emma Shreve, Cassie Hoffman, and Josh Kutchenriter. There were four alternates that also participated in this meet they were Sydney Shreve, Catherine Morse, Maddie Didier, and Ben Hohn.

The students that par-ticipated in the Algebra were Jesse Barker, Chase Jung, Jaden Doornink, and Taylor Isfan. There were also eight alternates they were Claire Crocker,

Tyler Petermann, Savanah Lapp, Matt Papendorf, Maria Wood, Tiffany Bricco, Jade Czarnicki, and Darren Carrigg.

The students that par-ticipated in the Advanced Mathematics were Ana Huber, Jarren Vanman, Sara Messner, and Chris-sy Betz. There were two alternates Devin Kestell and Dustin Didier.

Students are selected by the the teachers of the Math department.

Mathletes Compete at UWSP

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Linda Fenton presents her experience, Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ 2013, at the Clintonville Public Library on January 21st.