How the Bears Make Their Mark
Every year during the month of January the school goes into havoc when midterms start. For students this means a half-day of school, going in late, getting out early, and studying until you can not feel your head.
For some teachers this means correcting lots of papers, and getting their second quarter grades done, but in the eyes of a student teachers do not always do what they are suppose to do.
According to Missy Melfi, 7th of January, she was wearing a hat in school. She would walk past the security guards and they did not say nothing. She said that she was talking to security, when a guy pasted by with a hat and the security guard asked him to take it off. At the same time she was in front of the security guard and he had said nothing to her. Incidents like this have lead some students to believe there is a double standard at Norwalk high. It looks like Boys get busted for wearing hats more than girls do.
“It’s sexist, it’s a rule meant to be enforced towards the entire student body as in every student in the school.” Said Christian Rivera (’11).
In the code of conduct it says “if one to be seen with a head covering the first time they are to be warned. The second time it is going to be confiscated."
On New Year’s Day, The Norwalk Hour reported a list from the Comptroller’s office of the top 100 highest paid City of Norwalk employees. Topping the list was former Norwalk High School interim principal, Mr. Daddona with a gross pay of $181,562.
Fourth period bell rings which means that lunch is next, once people get to the cafeteria, they separate themselves from each other by their social groups. Here at Norwalk High School, students decide to segregate themselves by race and grade.
Jessica Barrett (’10) explained, “Yes, students at Norwalk High segregate ourselves, everyone has there little cliques like the bookworms, preppy, and girls with a lot of makeup and their bellies showing. I do not think it is a bad thing, but the need to expand their social life with other students besides their little cliques or circles.”
Resource centers have been known for helping students with work, but with all the chaos and mash ups, students never 
seem to go somewhere to get work done. Recently it has been heard that the librarians were going to put new computers on the second floor of the library so students could have somewhere to go and do work, but that does not seem to be working out so well.
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