Our Newspaper

It's a shameful thing. Evidently our paper used to be pretty good, and it did actually make money. Cudos to the Advertising staff and all you hard working staff writers!
Then the Big Company decided to cut. Not just the papers in cities where they weren't making money, they decided to cut ours too.
They put a lot of people out of work. Slash that budget! We can all understand.
Ok now I am going to get more specific. Is the editor relying on spell check? Because in December 14 paper, there is a front page article with a big picture. It continues on page 5a. It then ends mid sentance "Other dances are"
Hey, wait, where's the rest? Nope, not to be found. I looked all the way through B. A victim of the computer software no doubt.
But the actual writing is so... okay, I'm blogging here but I could write better stuff for a paper. So could you, or my 7th grade daughter. Here are some excerpts from this ONE article: "There are no uniforms at ECA and male students like Elbertson and Alex Benoit relish the fact that they can wear their hair below their hair and eyebrows." Really! How do you wear your hair below your hair? No school district rule permits you from having hair in your face or over your eyebrows. It is just supposed to be a color that occurs in people's hair in nature. I used to sub and saw some boys with hair longer than mine (midback). And the hair and uniforms are sort of related. "Students begin taking dual enrollment courses as a freshman and can take classes where they're mixed in with SLCC classes staring their sophomore year." Did that make any sense? Did they say they were segregated from the rest of the campus the first part of the sentance? Nope. First they're talking how the class is counted in credits. Then the second part says the second year students can attend other campus classes. The school reporter has consistently put two unrelated thoughts in one sentance, though. It is also common to read an article most of the way through when suddenly and abruptly the topic switches to an unrelated or distantly related topic. Since our paper has tons of Associated Press articles and very few community ones, I would think they'd save the other topic for the next day with it's own headline. I liked this note too. "An administrator was hired who reviews lesson plans and enforces rules." Wow! Really? I would hope that every teacher would review lesson plans and enforce rules. But okay, I am understanding this is someone who doesn't have to teach classes? So this would be... a... don't tell me... principal? Who knows. The poor person deserves a title at least. "Some students will take physical education next year." NEWS FLASH!!! Kids required to take PE to graduate! Film at 11:00! Yes, Virginia, you have to take PE to finish High School unless you get a waiver (usually medical or religious). I would love to know if the kids will be able to sign up for College Physical Ed classes, though, like Aerobics, Weight Training, etc. What's offered? Oh, darn, the article's left me wanting more... as usual.