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Media restrictions explainedOnline entertainment is censored for student safety

More students living with grandparentsNew study shows 1/20 of students live with grandparents

According to the 2010 US census, one in every 20 of Idaho children are being raised by their grandparents. Comparatively, the amount of grandchildren be-ing raised by grandparents has increased by 64 percent, now an estimated 6.7 million people. Many Sandpoint High School students are aware of what it’s like being a part of that 6.7 million.

For whatever reason, less tra-ditional parenting is on the rise, though senior Anthony Seko-na-Coulter doesn’t notice any-thing less then ordinary about it.

“I have a strong relationship with my grandparents. We share a lot of common interests, and they’re kind of new-age, so there isn’t any culture gap.” Sekona said.

His grandparents played a very significant part in raising him, and the somewhat nontraditional parenting seemed normal to him.

Though many kids find the understanding between their grandparents and them

to be unaffected by a culture gap, some students notice a change in thinking at times.

“One time, I needed a hair-cut and my grandpa suggested using a bowl, completely seri-ous!” said sophomore Amberly Ashley, who has also had experi-ence with grandparent parenting

“I notice a difference in music. I’ll be listening to my music and my grandpa will ask what it is, and my grandma would say it’s ‘what the kids are listening to’.”

Nationally, the census has cit-ed many reasons why grandpar-ents and parents are switching roles, generally owing to mental stress, financial troubles, and substance abuse. However, many more reasons exist depending on the particular family situation.

There are programs all over the nation designed to seek out and support grandparents raising their grandchildren. One pro-gram in particular, the Grand-parents As Parents (GAP) group based in Treasure Valley, Idaho is aimed at supporting grandpar-ents all over the state of Idaho.

george WoodStaff Writer

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Facebook, YouTube, and Pan-dora are all sites blocked from the SHS server, and more are to be blocked everyday. SHS has a cat-egorizing software that automati-cally bans sites if there has been any history of unsuitable substances.

So what deems a website to be inappropriate? It ultimately comes down to the three categories of social media, games, and pornog-raphy. Students have the biggest problem with the fact that social networking and gaming sites are blocked.

According to Sandpoint High School information tech, Christian Boone, the intention of censoring the web is “mainly safety”. Students are minors; therefore the district is liable if a sexual predator ends up on the other end of a message or chat room. The school can’t moni-tor who students chat with online, which also makes cyber-bullying an issue.

The administration has also en-

countered problems with gaming sites. Students need to keep in mind that school is a learning environ-ment. Teachers don’t want students messing around on the computer while they are teaching. Registrar, Patsy Sletager agreed if we were to unblock the web, students would be “unproductive.”

Even if part of a website can be very beneficial, the school is not

able to allow students to access the site if there is any undesirable con-tent at all.

An example of one of these web-sites is youtube.com. There are a lot of educational videos on this website, but at the same time, inap-propriate content accessible there. Sophomore Kaylee Kiebert said “Although I understand where the district is coming from, I still think

we should have some rights when it comes to YouTube and other sites.”

With all restricted sites, the school district has still not blocked emails. However, students are technically not allowed to access personal emails due to unmonitored content. The reasoning behind the allowance of emails is the usefulness of emails for stu-dents and some classes. Online classes find emailing to be very useful when turning in assign-ments. Email is also a large component in classes like Ce-dar Post and Student Council.Although the district is leav-

ing those sites open at the mo-ment, they are working on de-veloping student emails through Google.com, to allow students to use emails that the district knows are safe.

Regarding online entertain-ment, Boone added “Do it on your own time, I can’t come to work and listen to music or play games ei-ther.”

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In a place as crowded and chaotic as the commons, getting a message out effectively to the hundreds of stu-dents eating lunch can be a daunting task.

Activities and athletics director Tom Albertson has been trying out a new way to reach students this year through the use of a sandwich sign hanging from his neck. The sign serves as a passive announcement to students in the commons reminding them to keep the tables clean, adver-tise an upcoming event, or give posi-tive messages about Sandpoint High School.

“I originally started wearing the sign as a way to get kids to clean up their lunch tables when they were finished eating,” said Albertson. “I saw kids notice the sign and give me

a thumbs-up, which showed that the signs were effective.”

Though the administration is posi-tive about the influence of the sand-wich signs, some students and other staff members think the sign may not be the real reason things are staying cleaner in the commons. Head cus-todian Kathy Robison feels that the signs may be helping the mess in the commons, but she is not sure of the extent of their usefulness.

“I have noticed a difference in how clean the commons is this year, but whether that is just because of Mr. Albertson’s sign is hard to tell.” said Robison “I think just the presence of administrators like Mr. Albert-son, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Miles and Dr. Meyer help to keep kids behaving in the commons. Regardless, it is a big improvement from previous years,” said Robison.

Some find the signs to be more of a joke than a helpful reminder and

doubt their effectiveness. Freshman Emily McKay believes that the signs aren’t having any impact on the be-havior of students in the commons.

“He’s wearing a funny-looking sign in a room full of high school kids. Even if people do pay at-tention to what it says, I don’t think they are really going to take it to heart,” said McKay.

Albertson plans to con-tinue wearing the sign and hopes it will continue to serve as an effective non-ver-bal announcement. He encour-ages clubs or activities to submit school-appropriate messages to Beth Dean and her assistants, and they will get the notice onto his sign.

“My colleagues might like to make fun of me for it, but I think it is an effective way to advertise. It’s nice to avoid going around talking to each table and giving reminders.” said Albertson.

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Homework Overload?Study shows too much homework can be detrimental to students

Prime-time for a sandwich signAlbertson finds new ways to reach students

‘Occupy’ movement now localStudents join national protest against corporate greed

Around the beginning of Oc-tober, home-schooled senior Josh Johnson heard about the national and international movement called Occupy Together. He grew interested and began looking into the movement and engaging his family and friends to join. De-ciding he would like to create an Occupy Sandpoint, he registered on the Occupy Together website to have a meeting at Farmin Park.

Two days later 51 people met to begin organizing for the Occupy Sandpoint community. At the sec-ond meeting there were around 150 people, showing the strength in numbers principle that the Occupy Together movement employs.

Among the wide va-riety of people to show up were four Sandpoint High School students, and several alumni.

The group introduced them-

selves and took turns voicing their opinions and what they hope to achieve, which is one of the main features of the movement: the ability for everyone to have a voice without over-powering each other or having one definite allegiance to political parties or viewpoint.

“I feel like there isn’t equality anymore, that there is too much greed in corporate America,” senior Lucas McCoy

said.Student involvement high-

lights the representation of the “99 percent”, which is the slogan of Occupy Together, pointing out the growing disparity between the wealthy one percent of people who have more money than the 99 percent combined. One major reason for the movement is a gen-eral discontentment with the fail-ing national economy and corpo-rations influencing government.

For more information check out “Occupy Sandpoint” on Face-book.

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25% 10 1/42+of parents believe excessive homework infrindges on family time

of students use their parents help on homework when overloaded

hours of homework has no impact on a student’s oerformance

minutes times your grade level is a healthy limit on homework

It’s 10 p.m. on a Tuesday night. Having just rounded off your fourth hour of homework, you look desperately at an English book

waiting to be analyzed. As you resentfully reach for it, your eyes droop-

ing and your brain throbbing in your skull, you be-gin to ask yourself, “What’s the point?”

Don’t worry — you’re not alone. This question is asked daily by students across the country who find themselves overwhelmed by the heavy work-load imposed upon them.

According to a study by the American Psycho-

logical Association, today’s students report more anxiety than child psychiatric patients did in the 1950s.

“I start on my homework when I get home at four and work until 11 at night,” junior Kaitlin Miller said. “I feel stressed out with AP History and Algebra II Honors, but the other classes aren’t too bad. Some classes just require more work, but that’s what you sign up for.”

So how do U.S. students compare to their inter-national peers? In countries with students scoring highest on achievement tests, such as Japan, Den-mark, and the Czech Republic, teachers generally assign little homework. Countries with the lowest averages, such as Thailand, Greece, and Iran, tend

to have it piled on. “In Thailand, I study much harder,” exchange

student Pin Boontara said, “I don’t have much free time. I have to work [on homework] once I get home, unless I finish it in school.”

American students do just as much homework, if not more, yet achievement scores remain around the global average.

All that hard work isn’t always for nothing, how-ever. A review of over 120 studies by Duke Univer-sity found that performance moderately improves for high school students who work on homework for up to two hours a night. But after two hours, scores actually begin to drop.

A Duke University professor recommends 10

minutes per grade level per night rule (excluding Fridays) for homework. If that was the case a fresh-man could expect 90 minutes of work; for seniors, a maximum of two hours.

With each student having a unique schedule, maintaining such a limit would be difficult. It would require a lot of inter-teacher communica-tion, and a timetable would have to be tailored in-dividually to each student.

“I’ve heard of the 10 minute rule,” teacher Mary Bird said, “I think we may have had a school policy in the past, but I’m not sure if it’s still in affect. I just try to take into consideration that other teachers assign work, too. But overall, I don’t believe that students here get too much homework.”

Kelsey AndersonCopy Editor

Statistics from University of Nebraska study

It’s about that time of year again, when the routine

of prepping us for our “futures” be-gins. (Insert fake enthusi-asm here.)

Every year we are hit with an onslaught of applications and essays with the intention of sorting us into an accept-able post-secondary path. So much time is devoted to pumping us full of ideas about what is best for our lives that almost no time is left for us to think for our-selves.

This country tells us that only immediate entry into college or the military is the right option. To do otherwise would be to condemn your-

self to a life of limited oppor-tunity. This is a load of trash. College might be the best option for someone whose goals consist of living “the American Dream” (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but others may have dif-ferent priorities. Some want to

volun-teer, travel, or at least expe-

rience part of the real world before officially entering it. The definition of success dif-fers from person to person. You shouldn’t be made out to be a failure for having an unconventional dream.

The next time opinions are being thrust at you, don’t feel pressured to please those around you. I don’t plan on letting anyone else direct my future, because it’s me alone who will have to live the life I choose, and you will have to live with yours.

People are brutal. The

reality is, no matter how friendly you may attempt to be toward others, high school will rip you to shreds. I believe

in strong class unity, but I won’t pretend like there is some utopia associated with being a senior.

Class spirit is something much differ-ent than actual camaraderie. Both males

and females alike love rumors, and being the top dog in the halls doesn’t ensure the capability to be mature.

Lots of teenagers are jealous, selfish and hypocritical. If something is said about a classmate, some people don’t question it or compare it to the victim’s actual reputation.

It’s quite a stretch to believe that a high school student can have some sort

of psychological metamorphosis and, on a whim, do something completely

against their prin-ciples.

Here’s a thought: Give your classmates the benefit of the doubt, be open to

forgive, and if you hear gossip, so what? If you don’t want negative attention glar-ing at you wherever you go, act likewise towards others. Be the mature person to rise above the vicious rumors.

What are your thouhts on the New Occupy Movement?

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The Cedar Post is governed by the same legal rights as the pro-fessional press. Under the First Amendment, we reserve the right to free expression and freedom of the press. The student newspaper of Sandpoint High School is an open public forum for the students of Sandpoint High School and the community of Sandpoint, Idaho, with its editorial board making all decisions concerning its con-tents; it is not subject to prior review by administration, faculty, or community members.

Unsigned editorials express the views of the majority of the editorial board.

Letters to the editor must be signed, although the staff may withhold the name upon request. The paper reserves the right to edit letters for grammar and clarity, and all letters are subject to law governing obscenity, libel, privacy and disruption of the school process, as are all contents for the paper.

Opinions in letters are not necessarily those of the staff, nor should an opinion expressed in a public forum be construed as opinion or policy of the administration, unless so attributed.

Editorial Policy

The CP strongly encourages you to voice your opinion through the student paper.

E-mail your letter to shscedarpost@gmail.com or bring it by room E8.

• Gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

• Violet, from the incredibles, was the first emo.

• How far would I have to go before you would get a restraining order?

• I think that is a table cloth, but you are welcome to wear it on your head.

• Nothing says love like a good woolly coat!

• Shake your Rice-A-Roni, shake your Rice-A-Roni.

• Here’s your Craison - I mean equation.

• I wish we had some chinese people on staff.

• Can we go in a dark room and do that?

• I’m making a pros and cons list of hanging up on you right now.

• If it was in Spanish it’d be Whorebaby.

• WAKA FLAKA WAKA FLAKA!

• I’m not going to be bald for long!

These are phrases Cedar Post staff members have heard from students of SHS. The views

expressed in Word for Word are not necessarily shared by the Cedar Post.

VIEW”“OURThe Cedar Post Editors dis-

cuss the relationship between upper and lower classmen

Know your rank and respect the heirarchy

We asked two students of different grades their thoughts on a political, administrative and random topic.

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My life, my decision

You shouldn’t be made out to be a failure for having an unconventional dream.“ “

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Sick and tired of administrative policies? Join the club!

When it comes to rumors, the kids don’t stand a chance

Being the top dog here doesn’t ensure the capability to be mature.“ “

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As we dip into Fall, we are nearing the

end of the first quarter and the high school mentality is in full swing. Freshman are slowly beginning to tiptoe through the Senior Hall-way, sophomores are overly confident, juniors are just bored already, and between college applications and light schedules, seniors are reap-ping the spirit of champions all through the halls.

Looking closer though, we must reflect on the aspect of class rank and what it means. The essence of rank is a living tradition. Those

of us who have been braving this battle for four long years are required a little respect.

So, to all lowerclassmen: know your rank. Everyone deserves the final bow before high school is over. The class of 2012 has never had more spirit, and any unsettling disturbances to the smooth flow of class rank will indefi-nitely be matched by some of the more passionate seniors.

And to seniors: act your age. The administra-tion counts on us to set an example of positive spirit, humility, and a fun high school career. We, through

all four years, have accumulated privileges and rights that those younger than us do not have. It is wrong to turn our back on the administration and what they do for us everyday, throwing away the respect we have earned.

The “code” of class rank applies to all: without a mutual under-standing of the gap between

grades and what the tradi-tion means, the high school mentality will die.

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Entering my senior year,

I was ecstatic at the potential that could be unleashed by the school-mandated club time for all students. However,

that very first Club Wednesday disillu-sioned me very quickly.

My high hopes faded into shock when, entering English teacher Pam Webb’s room for the very first Badmin-ton Club meeting, I saw before me a

room packed with kids. 86 to be exact. Two weeks and another unreasonably crowded club time later, my council and I annulled the Wednesday Badminton Club meetings.

Fortunately, due to the intense focus on clubs, new ones seem to be cropping up every week, so there was no lack of clubs to replace ours. But even so, as I sat in a packed Harry Potter Club, I couldn’t help but notice the muted snickers of those students who were there to “fill their quota” of clubs and weren’t there to take it seriously.

I won’t deny the amazing growth in school spirit that I have seen this year, but with the enforced attendance on Wednesdays, the alleged thefts of two $80 glass-cutting tools as well as $300 worth of camera equipment from the art room during Art Club seem to speak for themselves.

Whether or not this policy is effec-tive, there are some students the school would honestly do better to get off campus as soon as possible than to give them nearly free reign in an unfamiliar classroom.

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I really don’t even know what that is.

I honestly don’t know anything about that.

Yes. I’ll probably grow out everything. My face, legs, etc.

Good question. Probably just my legs.That is all I did last year too.

I guess so, there are still some things that need to be worked out, though.

I think that teachers are figur-ing the light system out and I really like being able to leave.

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Young crushes are the cause of many things. For Levi Marcy, it was for this reason that he began to draw anime.

Marcy, 18, first began drawing in the sixth grade, when his crush handed him an anime book and asked him to read it.

“I’d always liked anime, but because of that everything started to fall into place,” Mar-cy said.

The word “anime” is spe-cifically used to describe a comic-book-style drawing.

Marcy experiments with many different styles but pre-fers to draw portraits of himself.

“I think it’s freaky to draw pictures of someone else,” he said.

Marcy also writes stories to accompany his art. A lot of Marcy’s anime depicts him and

his friends as the main characters as they at-tempt to deal with the high school challeng-es. Many come from dealing with fights and managing relationships. Still, he tries to keep his stories fresh and imaginative by inserting

elements of fantasy.“I like to make people he-

roes,” Marcy said. “Everybody wants to be a hero anyway, so that’s how I make them.”

Marcy comments on drawing as his own personal “drug”. It gives him a feeling of control and allows him to express what he really thinks and wants.

“You get to make your own world, and if you mess up, you can just start over,” Marcy said.

Marcy hopes to get his art published so that he can get all of his hard work out to the public. He says that one of his primary goals is to be one of the first well-known American anime artists.

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Fall sports season winds down

With the sport’s season winding down teams are evaluating their performance this season.

Cross CountryThe boy’s and girl’s cross country teams had a great season. The boy’s team qualified for state with Sam Levora, Chris Jones, and James Cartwright also qualifying as individuals. Two members of the girls team, Jenny Van Ooyen and Sydney Foster also qualified. Coach Brass wants the team to train hard this offseason so that both teams can qualify next year.

VolleyballThe volleyball team won districts again this

year and they qualified for the state tourna-ment. The team played well this season with a very young group of players and they will look to come back as an even better team next season.

Football The football team has had a below average

season this year. They struggled, playing one of the toughest schedules in all of Idaho, but they turned it around and had a strong fin-ish with great performances against Lake City and Moscow.

SwimmingThis year’s swim team has worked hard to

qualify for the state competition. The team goes down to Boise this weekend to com-pete and the swimmer’s are hoping to have a strong showing.

Boys SoccerThe boys soccer team made it to the dis-

trict finals but they lost a close game to Lake-land. They will bring back a strong team next season led by a great sophomore class that features this season’s leading scorer Jeremiah Gagnon, who finished with 7 goals.

n girls soccer: Sophomore Kaylee Kiebert scores a clutch goal. The Bulldogs advanced to the state championship game.

Teams experience mixed success this fall

Girl’s Basketball

Boy’s Basketball

Wrestling

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With a record of 5-8-5, going into the state tournament, the Sandpoint High School Girl’s Soccer team might not have posed the biggest threat in the eyes of teams such as Bishop Kelly(19-0-0) and Hillcrest (15-0-0), but the Lady Bulldogs had their own plan of attack.

With a fierce 4-0 victory over Madison in the opener of the state tournament and a tight 3-2 win over Twin Falls (12-2-2.) in the semi-final game, the Bull-dogs were slated to face the heav-ily favored Bishop Kelly Knights in the state championship game.

The Bulldogs have had a fierce rivalry with Bishop Kelly due to two close games in the past two state tournaments. The bull-dogs beat BIshop Kelly in 2009, but since then, Bishop Kelly has gone undefeated including a win in last year’s championship game where they beat the Bulldogs in

a shoot out. In this year’s championship

game the intense rivalry contin-ued. Senior Ellie Engel lofted a beautiful goal in the first 8 min-utes of the game to give the Bull-dogs a 1-0 lead. After two quick goals by Bishop Kelly, Meghan Pagano finished the 80 minute regulation time with a slotted goal past the keeper to tie the game and send it into yet anoth-er overtime with Bishop Kelly.

Just four minutes into over-time, the Knights won the game with a cross into the box finished by their forward, ending the overtime with a golden goal. The Bulldogs lost 3-2 and finished second in the state.

“We went into this tourna-ment with the worst record, and we finished the season in the State Championship game,” senior captain Kendall Stratton said, “we deserved to be in that game and lost to the best team in the state, that’s nothing to be ashamed of.”

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Freshman Maddi Contor swims the freestyle for the Sandpoint High School swim team. This year she has placed first in the 50, 100, and 200 meter freestyle stroke. Her personal record for the 50 meter freestyle is 26 seconds and her record for the 500 meter free-style is 5 minutes and 5 seconds.

Q. How old were you when you first learned how to swim?

A. I started swimming when I was 2.

Q. When did you start competing?

A. My first competition was when I was 7 years old.

Q. What drives you to keep swimming during your races?

A. I would say my times because I want to beat my prior times and so I swim harder.

Q. What thoughts run through your head while you swim?

A. I like to think of different strategies to use, for example when to speed up or set a pace. I also think about where my opponents are to help me stay with their pace or have a faster pace.

Q. How often is your training during season and off season?

A. I train every day in the morning and most after-noons as well during the season. I train only in the afternoon during the off season.

Q. Do you have any future plans for swimming?

A. I plan to swim throughout high school and if I can I will probably swim in college as well but I am not posi-tive about that yet.

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As the oldest (and only) active Amtrak station of the former Northern Pacific railway, this old train depot gets the honor of the most scary place in Sandpoint. The actual building closed down so passengers wait on the platform instead. Oh, and it only boards in the middle of the night.

From 1966 to 2000, the building located on the corner of Second and Alder was used as a library. Before that, a post office, and is now currently home to a bank.

The eery building used to frighten children with the Abe Lincoln

statue out front, but even after that was moved out, his legacy haunts

the building.

The victim of many break-ins and childhood curiousity, 602 Fourth street has been haunting the neighborhood be-hind Safeway for years. It is now on the market to be sold to one lucky owner. Any takers?

Although not the official name of the landmark, Chicago Alley is not hard to recognize. It is the longest and one of the only real alleys in Sandpoint, created by the back of the First street buildings and Sec-ond street buildings. A majority of the windows are barred, not add-ing to a safe feel. It has been home to many senior pictures over the years, but this Halloween use it for something new. Take your friends here and run through in the dark. It is sure to freak you out.

There’s a reason Stephen King uses small towns for the setting of his

haunted novels. In the town of Sand-point, with merely 8,000 people, there are plenty of spooky places that will be sure to give you a fright this Hallow-een. Here are some of our favorites.

Sandpoint

Old Library

Chicago Alley602

Fourth St.

Old Train DepotBrooke rockholm | PhotograPher

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Built in the 1930’s, this building used to be an old railway freight house. It has many

rooms and three levels that make it an an-cient maze of unknown nooks and crannies.

Today the building is a multi-vendor antique store. With that many antiques, it’s no won-der that the building has a spooky feeling as

visitors explore.

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