Tiger Tales Vol. 72, No. 4 June, 2008 Valencia High School PTSA

From thePrincipal…

By the time youreceive this mes-sage, it will be thelast or next to lastweek of the 2007-2008 school year.In retrospect, thisschool year was very satisfying.The multitude of improvements,achievements, and accomplish-ments during a single year may beunprecedented in Valencia’s sev-enty-four year history. A compre-hensive list of accolades in theacademic, athletic, and performingarts arenas is far too extensive togive justice to in this message;however, I do wish to provide yousome highlights since the lastnewsletter.

On the academic front, we ad-ministered well over 1300 Ad-vanced Placement (A.P.) and In-ternational Baccalaureate (I.B.)Exams during the first three weeksof May. This is an amazing statis-tic considering, just ten years ago,we administered only 229 such ex-ams. We are anxiously awaitingthe results which will arrive mid-summer. We anticipate that 45candidates will receive I.B. diplo-mas once the exams are graded.This should place Valencia in thetop three high schools in OrangeCounty, with only our third di-ploma class. In addition, we ex-pect to have 15 to 20 Val Tech Di-ploma recipients. This was indeedan impressive group of seniors.

This spring, Valencia sen-iors were accepted to suchprestigious out-of-state uni-versities as MassachusettsInstitute of Technology,Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia,Cornell, Amherst, CanegieMellon, Georgetown,George Washington, Pur-due, Rutgers, and Welles-

ley. Valencia had an amazingnumber of students accepted to theUniversity of California including17 to Berkeley, 20 to L.A., 33 toSan Diego, 24 to Santa Barbara,and 59 to Irvine. More locally,Valencia had 47 seniors earn ad-mission to Cal Poly Pomona and129 to C.S.U.F. It has yet to betabulated; but, we anticipate thatthe Class of 2008 earned over $2.5million in scholarships.

Newsweek Magazine just re-leased their annual ranking of thetop 1300 high schools in the na-tion. Last year, Valencia wasranked 498 in the nation. Thisyear, we moved up 56 points to aranking of 442. This year, Valen-cia is ranked 8th in Orange County.The only O.C. schools rankedahead of Valencia, in order, areOxford Academy, Troy, Univer-sity, Corona del Mar, Sunny Hills,Mission Viejo, and Northwood.

Athletically, spring of 2008 wasa banner season. Boys’ and Girls’Swimming both captured EmpireLeague Championships. Boys’Tennis was co-champions and oneof only seven high schools in Or-ange County to advance to theC.I.F. Quarterfinals. For the sec-

ond consecutive year, sophomoreCurtis Wu was named the EmpireLeague’s Most Valuable Player.Boys’ Baseball had one of themore successful years in recentmemory. They finished the regularseason 20-7, 2nd in the EmpireLeague, and ranked 10th in OrangeCounty. They advanced to thesecond round of the C.I.F. Play-offs. Boys’ Track and Fieldmissed a league championship byonly 12 points. The team was ledby Talal Khan’s four 1st place fin-ishes. Talal also captured the CIFChampionship in the 1600 meters.In Orange County’s most competi-tive league, Girls’ Softball finishedthird and advanced to the C.I.F.playoffs. Recently, it was an-nounced that Stephanie Hammelwas honored as the 2008C.I.F./Farmers Insurance Scholar-Athlete of the Year. In addition,she received the Empire League’sFemale Athlete of the Year.Stephanie will be attending UCIrvine on a full athletic scholarshipnext year.

At the recent Yorba LindaWomen’s Club Art Show, Valen-cia students excelled. EuniceChung took a 1st place in Paintingwhile Will Hass did the same inCeramics. Anai Puente wasawarded a 2nd place in Ceramicsand Denise Araujo a 3rd place. OnMay 9 and 10, under the directionof the new dance advisor, Court-ney Williams, the Valencia Danceteam performed in front of largecrowds in the Valencia Audito-rium. Part of the proceeds was do-

nated to the Colombo Family.Valencia student, Nick Colombo,is currently waging a gallant fightagainst cancer.

I would like to take yet anotheropportunity to thank the localelectorate for recently approvingMeasure A for school moderniza-tion. Valencia is slated for exten-sive upgrades over the next fouryears. We are hopeful that threeprojects will be completed over thesummer break. First and foremostis the renovation of Bradford Sta-dium. District officials are opti-mistic that artificial turf and newlights will be installed for the firstfootball game. In addition, one of

our chemistry labs will be up-graded in order to accommodatecollege-level instruction and labs.Lastly, the quad restroom will beremodeled and enlarged.

Over the past month, I have re-ceived numerous phone calls ande-mails regarding how the currentState fiscal crisis will impact pro-grams at Valencia. As of thiswriting, no programs will be cutfor the 2008-2009 school year.However, the fiscal crisis willlikely manifest itself at Valencia inthe form of more students in eachclassroom, rooms cleaned less of-ten, and longer grass.

In closing, I would like to thankall stakeholders for their continuedsupport. I wish you and your chil-dren a healthy, happy, and restfulsummer. I hope you share my ex-citement for the coming of the2008-2009 school year, and I lookforward to nurturing our continuedpartnership. The entire ValenciaFamily is looking forward to our75th Anniversary next year.

Sincerely,

James E. BellPrincipal

Community Service UpdateSummer is a great time to

earn community service hoursto satisfy the 40 hours forgraduation requirement. Stu-dents earning community serv-ice during the summer have un-til September 30 to completethe verification form. Pleaseread the community service es-sential information below:Community Service Essentials

• Graduation requirement is40 service hours by May 1st

of Senior year.• Plan ahead. Volunteer op-

portunities will be an-nounced in the student bul-

letin, posted on the boardoutside of the CounselingOffice and provided to all2nd period teachers. Startnow.

• Privately arranged hours(e.g. babysitting, gardening)DO NOT count.

• Volunteering time at a FOR-PROFIT business DOESNOT count.

• All CS forms are availablein VHS Counseling Office.

• Please return forms to CSbasket in the Counseling Of-fice.

• Falsified hours will result insuspension.

• All hours are subject to veri-fication.

• Please allow 2-3 weeks toprocess paperwork.

• If you have any questions,please see Ms. Watkins inthe VHS Community Serv-ice Office.

• The handbook has every-

thing you need to know! If

you need a handbook, pick

one up in the Community

Service Office.

VHS to Host Summer Basketball LeagueValencia will be running their

boy’s basketball summer leaguefor the 50th summer this year. The Tiger Basketball Leaguewas started in 1959 by BobHamblin. Coach Hamblin wasthe first Orange County College

All-American while he playedat Chapman College. CoachHamblin (14 years) followed byGary Jones (3 years), Ray Rod-riguez (14 years), John Cyrus (3years) and it is currently run byvarsity head coach Dean

Yoshimura for the past 15summers. This could be thelongest continuous runningsummer league in SouthernCalifornia.

Valencia Increases In Newsweek RankingsOf The Nation’s Top Schools Again

Newsweek Magazine has just released their annual ranking of the top 1300 schools in the nation and

Valencia made the list again. Last year, Valencia was ranked 498 in the nation. This year, the Tigers

moved up another 56 points to a ranking of 442. In addition, Valencia is ranked 8th in Orange County.

The only other schools that ranked ahead of Valencia are, in order, Oxford Academy, Troy, University,

Corona del Mar, Sunny Hills, Mission Viejo, and Northwood. This ranking is a tribute to the fantastic

staff and students Valencia is honored to have.

TOP TEN IN THE STATE AGAINScience Olympiad is an international organization devoted to

improving the quality of science education, increasing student in-

terest in science and providing recognition for outstanding

achievement in science education by both students and teachers.

Last year, there were over 14,000 K-12 schools that participated

in Science Olympiad Tournaments. These tournaments are rigor-

ous academic interscholastic events that require knowledge of

science concepts, process skills, and science applications.

This year, the Valencia High School Science Olympiad Team

took 2nd

place at the Orange County Regional Competition which

was held at Golden West College. The team then advanced to the State competition at Cal State Long

Beach and earned 10th

place in the ENTIRE STATE!

Team members are:

Jason Caffrey Kenneth Lee Bryce Yeh Jonathan Han

Angad Chadha Reuben Mathews Deep Kahlon Thomas Lee

Nathan Coulombe Albert Wang Eric Yau Timothy Zhu

Stefen Borg Felicia Hsu

Head coach: Mrs. Rita Phillips

Assistant coaches: Mr. Brady Bilhartz, Mrs. Tanya Borg, Ms. Linda Leonard

KHAN IS CIF CHAMPIONCongratulations to Senior, Talal Khan, CIF Champion in the 1600

meters for Division II! Khan did not let the 100 degree temperatures deter

him from his goal of running to win this race. He took over the race go-

ing into the 3rd lap and never looked back. The Loyola runner challenged

and briefly took the lead with 200 meters to go, but Khan responded with

a fierce kick over the final 100 meters to earn the title with a 4:18 clock-

ing. Khan came back later in the day to compete in the 3200 meters. He

was very competitive until the weather and earlier effort took its toll

leaving him in 5th place overall for Divsion II, which is still a pretty good double.

Sean Krinik finished his stellar season competing and finishing 8th in the 400 meter finals. Krinik is

only a Sophomore and had an amazing year in track!

ACADEMIC DECATHALON TEAM DOMINATES COUNTYCOMPETITON AGAIN

Congratulations to Valencia's Academic Decathlon Teams and coaches, Mrs. Kay Kerby and Mr.

Fred Jenkins on their outstanding showing in this year’s competition. Valencia's first team captured

fifth place overall in DIVISION 1 in Orange County and second place in the Super Quiz competition.

Division 1 is the highest and most difficult division in the county and Valencia is the only school in the

district to compete in this top division. The second team captured ninth overall, also in DIVISION 1,

and fifth in Super Quiz. Under the leadership of Mr. Kerby and Mr. Jenkins, Valencia's Academic De-

cathlon Team has not ever placed lower than the seventh place in Division 1 over the past ten years.

Valencia High School is proud to report the 2008 Academic Decathlon individual and team results be-

low:

First Team

Tim Dang

Salmaneh Ratanjee

Lars Ellingsen

Joy Shi

Ian Che

James Bostwick

Shaw-Ming Chen

Romin Rajan

Victoria Vu

Second Team

Arthur Xu

Yoonju Kim

Briana Vu

Jennifer Moore

Christopher Kim

Antoinette Whelan

Krystina Correa

Sarah Bartlett

Individual Awards

Essay

Ian Chen – 5th

Romin Rajan – 5th

Art

Tim Dang – 4th

Music

Ian Chen – 5th

Romin Rajan – 2nd

Interview

Yoonju Kim – 4th

Antoinette Whelan – 4th

Victoria Vu – 4th

Christopher Kim – 1st

Language & Literature

Jennifer Moore – 2nd

Romin Rajan – 2nd

Tim Dang – 1st

Joy Shi – 1st

Ian Chen – 1st

Math

Christopher Kim – 3rd

Tim Dang – 2nd

Ian Chen – 2nd

Speech

Yoonju Kim – 5th

Jennifer Moore – 4th

Super Quiz Written (Civil

War)

Arthur Xu – 5th

Jennifer Moore – 5th

Romin Rajan – 2nd

Economics

Tim Dang – 5th

Jennifer Moore – 5th

Joy Shi – 4th

James Bostwick – 3rd

Romin Rajan – 3rd

Arthur Xu – 2nd

Sarah Bartlett – 2nd

Lars Ellingsen – 1st

Individual Overall

Tim Dang – 4th

(Honors)

Romin Rajan – 1st (Varsity)

Team Awards

Super Quiz Relay

First Team – 2nd

Place, Division

1

Second Team – 5th

Place, Divi-

sion 1

Team Overall

First Team – 5th

Place, Div. 1

Second Team – 9th

Place, Div. 1

Based upon Valencia's finish in Science Olympiad and Academic Decathlon Competitions, the

Tigers are NUMBER 1 in Orange County AGAIN in combined competition.

ASB ELECTIONS YIELD NEW EXECUTIVE BOARDThe people have spoken and elected the following students to serve as the leaders of the school for

the 2008-2009 school year:

ASB President: Melanie Ramos

ASB Vice President: Avanti Kelkar

ASB Treasurer: Manny De la Cruz

ASB Secretary: Diana Pineda

Senior Class President: Lauren Brady

Junior Class President: Josh Rangel

Sophomore Class President: Dominique

Schorn

MESA MADNESSOur MESA (Math, Engineering, Science Association)

team members recently participated in a competition at

Cal State Fullerton. They had a great time AND did quite

well in several of their events.

In the math tests, Valencia placed as follows:

Kinjal Patel, Shoma Sanyal, Edmund Luong – 1st in

Team Math Algebra II/Trig.

Aditya Jani, Sarah Tasnim, Jason Caffrey – 1st in Team

Math Calculus

Areeb Aslam – 2nd

in Solo Geometry

Simona Bor – 1st Solo Trig

Pavandeep Rakhra – 2nd

Solo Trig

Alex Pham – 1st Solo Calculus

Alejandro Dos Reis – 2nd

Solo Calculus

In the other events, Valencia placed:

Jason Caffrey – 1st in Balsawood Bridge, 2

nd in Innovative Design for Bridge

Briana Vu – 3rd

in impromptu speech

Victoria Vu and Sarah Tasnim – 5th

in Egg Drop

Note: All of these students will move on to the regional competition at UC Riverside.

Also receiving recognition:

Jason Caffrey and Stanley Huang – 2nd

in Creativity for Mouse trap

Alejandro Dos Reis, Jason Caffrey, and Stanley Huang – 3rd

for Straw Tower

Aditya Jani and Alejandro Dos Reis – 3rd

in Foil Floaters

Congrats to the team and their advisor, Mrs. Heidi Krause-Nasraoui.

TIGER WEBSITE HITS MILESTONEAfter the Valencia website posted the ASB election results last Fri-

day, there was a huge number of “hits” on the site and that put us

over the THREE MILLION hit mark. The site has only been up for 2

_ years and that is an incredible amount of traffic for the site. The

teacher pages and homework pages are the biggest/most accessed

pages. The News and Daily Bulletins are also viewed a lot. A huge

TIGER thank you to our webmaster, Mrs. Sue Sawyer for all her

hard work in making our site such a success.

STUDENTS EARN ART AWARDSCongratulations to the following students who recently won awards at the

Yorba Linda Women’s Club Art Show:

Eunice Chung: 1st place painting

Will Haas: 1st place ceramics

Anai Puente: 2nd

place ceramics

Denise Araujo: 3rd

place ceramics

The students in Mrs. Pat Hadley and Mr. Brian Johnson’s classes not only

earned recognition but were also awarded cash prizes!

TIGERS HEAD TO SPANISH CAMPValencia students will be attending Spanish

Camp sponsored by the Foreign Language Asso-

ciation of Orange County. The amp has been

held every year for the last 20 years. The Tigers

began participating three years ago. FLAOC also

sponsors a German campand a French camp and

they are also held at the Presbyterian Conference

Center in Big Bear. Last year, we had 30 students attend and this year we will have 17. Spanish teachers,

Ms. Paola Ledezma, Mr. Steve Picht and staff member, Ana Avila will be chaperoning the students on

this trip where they will speak only Spanish and they will be learning dances, recipes, songs and culture

from Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.

TIGER PRIDE DAY REALLY SHINES Tiger Pride Day was a huge success! We had 150 staff and stu-

dents painting walls, doors, tables, fences, and railing through-

out the campus. We also had teams who cleaned our golf carts

and helped organized the drama storage closets. Thank you to

all who participated. ASB, NHS, PAL and Drama all made

major contributions that made TPD (Tiger Pride Day) a great experience.

Special thanks to Mr. Jim Bell, Mr. Joey Davis, Mrs. Cathy German, Mrs.

Carolyn Douglas, Mr. Jason Parker, Mr. Leonard Takahashi, Mr. Frank

Borgese, Mrs. Grace Stanton, Mrs. Michele Zaldin, and Mr. Rigo Flores for

giving of their time to work along side the kids. A special thanks to Mr. Rick

Lopez who organized the event. We could not have done it without you. As you walk through campus,

you will notice the many projects accomplished to help Valencia shine.

TIGER ALUM GOES TO THE OLYMPICS AGAIN!!!Julie Swail-Ertel, VHS Alumnus, Qualifies for Beijing Olympics

Former VHS Tiger of the Year, Julie Swail-Ertel was a member of the VHS

Swimming and Water Polo teams has again qualified for the Olympic team. To

make the Olympic team twice would be remarkable in itself but this Tiger is

way beyond remarkable! Swail-Ertel isn’t competing in the same Olympic sport,

this time she has made the team as a triathlete!

Swail-Ertel was discovered by übermaster Bill Leach (who now produces the

Pacific Coast Triathlon and the OC Triathlon in Mission Viejo). She came from

the world of big time women's water polo where she was the captain of the sil-

ver-medal-winning US Women’s Water Polo team at the 2000 Olympics in

Sydney, Australia and was captain and coached at UC Irvine. She was left off

the last Olympic water polo team and that provoked her to switch to triathlon.

She pulls out the big victory when she needs to. She's the reigning Pan Ameri-

can Triathlon Champ (2007) and she won the Cancun World Cup this past November. We are very

proud to have a VHS TIGER represent us in the Olympics twice and you can bet that the thousands of

Tigers around the U.S. will be cheering her on as she competes in Beijing.

STEPHANIE HAMMEL EARNS MORE AWARDSSenior Tennis star, Stephanie Hammel was recently named the Empire League

Athlete of the Year, the CIF Southern Section Scholar Athlete of the Year and the

California Athletic Directors Association Athlete of the Year. She has an overall

GPA of 4.48 while playing sports and being enrolled in the rigorous International

Baccalaureate Program. Way to go, Stephanie!

Dance Celebration 2008

“We Will Dance for Nick”The VHS Dance squad presented

their best show in years and raised

money for a good cause in the process.

The show titled, “Dance Celebration

2008 - "We Will Dance for Nick" was

the perfect combination of fun and

purpose. The fun part was watching

the dancers perform. Whether it was a

solo, pair, small or large team – it was

incredible. The many hours of practice really showed in their expertise and variety of dance styles in-

cluding hip hop, jazz, lyrical and many original choreographed routines. The show ran two nights, May

9th

and 10th

and played to a packed house.

The packed house helped with the purpose part of the event. The dancers raised money to assist Va-

lencia Senior, Nick Colombo and his family. Two dollars from each ticket was donated to help our

“fighting Tiger” in his battle against cancer. It was a generous gesture to the support the family and it

wasn’t the only one. Several local restaurants and families have sponsored “Nick Nights” where a por-

tion of the proceeds have been donated to the family including First Class Pizza and the Michaels

family - owners of the Farmer’s Boys Restaurant in Brea. We are thrilled to report that Nick has

been feeling well enough that he and his family have been able to attend many of these events. Con-

gratulations to the Boys Hip Hop Team, the Girls Dance Team and their advisor, Ms. Courtney Wil-

liams and coaches and choreographers on an outstanding production and for their bigheartedness.

To learn more about Nick please visit: http://www.carepage.com . You will see a place to join (free),

and then search for NICKS NOTES.

Tigers Attack The KnightsCongrats to the Tiger Varsity Baseball team who have been

ranked as high as 8th

in the county on their 7 to 2 CIF first

round playoff victory over Rialto High School last Friday,

Robby Gomez, Adam Bartczak, Martin Gilberstadt and

Kiefer Neal each had two hits to lead the Tiger attack. Gomez

scored three runs to help insure the win. Bartczak pitched five

solid innings to record his 8th

win of the season. Jamie Domin-

guez pitched the final two scoreless innings, striking out two

batters, to earn his sixth save of the season. The Tigers next

round opponent is West Torrance High School. The game will

be played at home tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20th

at 3:15pm. Good luck to Tiger team and their head

coach, Mr. Mike Scheetz.

PTSA Honors Staff, Students & ParentsA BIG CONGRATUATIONS to the 2007-08 PTSA award winners! Here are the results:

Teachers

Kay Kerby- Golden Oak Award

Sam Myovich- Honorary Service

Jamie Jauch- Continuing Service

Lenard Takahashi- Continuing Service

Staff

Victor Segovia- Continuing Service

Nancy Terrigno- Honorary Service

Kathie Sweet- Honorary Service

Mark Stanley- Honorary Service

Student

Antoinette Wheelan- Very Special Person

Parents

Laura Grace- Golden Oak

Nicki Shaw- Honorary Service

Angela Miller- Honorary Service

Dan Davis- Continuing Service

Another BIG thank you to those of you who nominated your fellow VHS family members!

VHS Drama RingsDown Curtain on

Successful SeasonCongratulations are due to the Va-

lencia High School Drama Team who

placed first in the 85th Annual Drama

Teacher's Association of Southern

California Shakespeare Festival on

Saturday, April 26th. 50 schools from

San Diego to Hemet to Paso Robles

competed in several acting and tech-

nical theatre categories on a 100%

day at John Burrough's High School

in Burbank. Team members, Lora-

lynn Battaglia, Brandi Bidd, Brendan

Han, Anthony Jacobs, Sarah Keeley,

and Rabecca Klostriech placed first in

the Group AS YOU LIKE IT cate-

gory, ensuring the first place in group

comedy streak that Valencia has been

maintaining for the past two years.

Seniors Angela Rodriguez and

Vanessa Rodrigues designed and cre-

ated a 4th place trophy-winning char-

acter costume for the play AS YOU

LIKE IT which was modeled by Ti-

ger Beth Fanning. The winning scene

was performed at an encore perform-

ance at the Madrid Theater in Canoga

Park and will be performed one last

time with other showcase VHS drama

scenes and original one-act on Thurs-

day, May 29th at 7pm in the audito-

rium.

American Cancer SocietyAugust 8-9, 2008

Relay For Life…is a unique,challenging and fun way to raise money for theAmerican Cancer Society. This year’s Relaywill be held at Yorba Linda Middle School inYorba Linda. The Relay involves forming a teamand keeping one of your team members on thetrack during the entire twenty-four hours. TheRelay begins by honoring survivors. There willbe entertainment, food, ceremonies, a kid’s cor-ner and lots of fun for all. Form a team, proudlywalk our lap of hope (as a cancer survivor orcaregiver), volunteer your time, dedicate a lumi-naria or be a sponsor! Come be a part of thisawesome event by contacting Mike Morgenson,Team Recruitment chair at (714) 469-9622 or Ju-lie Zeoli, Volunteer Coordinator at (714) 777-2873 ext. 6.

STUDENTS CAN RECEIVE COMMUNITY

SERVICE HOURS FOR VOLUNTEERING

IN THIS EVENT!!! Call Julie Zeoli for de-

tails.*NOT A SCHOOL SPONSORED EVENT

Valencia ASB Earns Nation’s Highest Student CouncilAward for Third Consecutive Year

The Tiger ASB Student Council has done it again! For its exemplary record of leadership, service, and

activities that serve to improve the school and community, Valencia High School has been awarded a

2008 Gold Council of Excellence Award by the National Association of Student Councils. Valencia

High School is one of only 133 schools nationwide to receive a 2007 Gold Council of Excellence Award.

The Tigers are also the only school in California to EVER earn this award and they have earned it

for the third year in a row.

To meet the requirements for the award, a student council must demonstrate that it meets a variety of

criteria. In addition to basic requirements such as a written constitution, regular meetings, a democratic

election process, and membership in NASC, schools that qualify for the award demonstrate such things

as leadership training for council members, teacher/staff appreciation activities, student recognition pro-

grams, school and community service projects, spirit activities, goal setting, financial planning, and ac-

tive participation in their state and national student council associations.

“Receiving an NASC Council of Excellence Award indicates a dedication on the part of the local

school to providing a strong, well-rounded student council program,” says Rocco Marano, director of

NASC. “NASC applauds the work of the Councils of Excellence and challenges them to continue their

exemplary efforts to serve their schools as the elected representatives of their student body.”

“We are extremely proud of the job that our Activities Program does on our campus and in the com-

munity,” said Jim Bell, Valencia’s Principal. “We are extremely honored to have not only been recog-

nized for with the (California Directors of Activities) CADA Outstanding High School Activities Pro-

gram of the Year for the past eight years, but also to have earned this the most prestigious award in the

nation - the Gold Council of Excellence Award for the third year in a row.”

Students’ “Extracurriculars” Hinder Academic SuccessAs teachers we are obviously not the students parents, but we see student’s actions at school that

sometimes can be easily corrected at home.

For example, many students often come into class practically falling asleep. When I talk with them

about why they are so tired, 99% of the time they say they were up until 1 or 2 in the morning or later

texting their boyfriend or girlfriend on their phone or “IM’ing” (Instant Messaging them) or using My

Space on their computers. My questions to the parents are:

• How can we work together to ensure that the students are getting enough sleep?

• Do the parents even know how to check the phone records to see the time of day their child is using the

phone or texting?

• Do the students really need to have a cell phone once they get home?

• Why are computers in the student’s room hidden from parental use?

These issues really affect the student’s ability in the classroom and they are very forthright when tell-

ing their teachers that they do this because their parents/guardians never check.

They think it is pretty funny that they can just tell their parent they won’t do it again and their parents

will believe them and not take any further action. Unfortunately, such betrayal of a parent’s trust and

faith leaves the parent in the difficult position of becoming a tyrant or abdicating responsibility alto-

gether.

This is one sided, obviously, but I am certain we could work together here to find a way to come to a

happy median so that students can perform better at school without being so dog gone tired from staying

up so late at home.

Media Production Class to Feature Short FilmsThursday, June 5

th Valencia High School Media Production’s class will be showcasing student’s short

films in the auditorium beginning at 6 pm. The films include short narrative, montage, music video and

documentary and highlight the works of two of teacher Grace Stanton’s classes.

Wildlife Club Wraps Up a Year for the AnimalsThe Wildlife Conservation Club’s goal is to help support endangered animals and their environment

by joining with the World Wildlife Fund to donate money to help out their cause. The goal for the clubis to aid at least five various animals and raise enough money to donate to the World Wildlife Fund.Each monthly meeting, the members are informed about a different endangered animal and research onthe Internet to find ways to help out. One way that the Wildlife Club fundraised money for the animalswas joining in the monthly Food Fair at lunch by making homemade goods to sell to students.This year, the Wildlife Club was able to enjoy the benefits of going to the Los Angeles Zoo due to aspecial ZOOPALS scholarship. This scholarship enabled the members to have free transportation andadmission into the zoo. On May 20th, 2008 the students enjoyed a docent guided tour teaching themvarious facts about the animals and even became aware of many more which were endangered. Over$400 will be sent this year to the animals and the members look forward to continuing on the tradition ofinforming the community how endangered animals need our help.

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