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s a year of a new calendar and more classes of

experimental block scheduling continued to run

its course towards June, students experienced

even more instances of GIVE & TAKE situations.

During the fall, just as the weather was mutating

into the winter cold and wind, a large sheet of

siding blew loose from the 9-10 wing. Affected

students had to sacrifice warm science class-
Losing siding from the
rooms for temporary building repairs.
9-10 wing of the building,
In addition to structural changes, students
as well as functioning in
also learned through relationships that life in-
various sorts of
volved a series of two-way streets. Whether they
relationships, forced
participated in romantic relationships or simply
students to make
friendly interactions, students made sacrifices for
adjustments from which
the benefit of others. From that which they gave
they learned and grew.
up, though, participants

reaped the benefits of

types of close friendships in high school,

students gained better-developed elements of

maturity and compromise, which would aid

them in future partnerships and other endeavors.

Having to GIVE & TAKE, although it may

have been a bitter necessity at the time, eventu-

ally allowed students to experience sweet success

in whatever situation arose. r Give & Take 24tfJ