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Show keep the student out of school other than this one day. School attendance is vital in the fast pace of school that we are now living with, and we encourage students to miss the least amount of school possible. shops such as our students have the chance to participate in, become an excellent moans of educating them to modem issues is-sues and problems. Monday, October 19th, will be the official holiday for the Deer Hunt. The Board of Education has established this day as a holiday, hoping that parents will cooperate with us and not 'ike PsiUtcifLal'd CORNER By Jesse E. Long Testing programs are now underway un-derway at the high school with the primary objective of helping help-ing us in having a more complete com-plete understanding of the students. stu-dents. On October 14th and 15th we will give the 7th grade the annual an-nual Achievement Tests. These tests have no bearing on classroom class-room grades, but they do assist us in being able to better determine de-termine the weaknesses and the strengths of the individual student, and to gearing our curriculum cur-riculum to meet the needs of the students. Last week through the cooperation coop-eration of the Employment Securities Se-curities Division we gave the entire 9th grade an Aptitude Test to assist us in determining determin-ing vocational skills of these students. During the month of November we will have the State Vocational Guidance van here in Miiford to assist us in gaining vocational information on the 9th grade group. We hope that we can better prepare them vocationally to make better bet-ter decisions through their remaining re-maining years of high school. Also during the month of November No-vember the 9th grade will have an Achievement Test Series that becomes an excellent college-predicting test. It is our desire to keep the 7th grade parents and the 9th grade parents par-ents well informed about the test results as soon as they are available. Student Body Officers attended attend-ed a one-day Student Leadership Leader-ship Workshop at Southern Utah State College campus in Cedar City on October 13th. They have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Student Body Officers from surrounding surround-ing high schools, and to bring back some new procedures that will help us grow. In this modern mod-ern age, good student leadership leader-ship is important to a High School, and we feel that work- |