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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1998-11-11, Page 22f.A.:.04%ft MDL DOORS 887-6974 Keep the Doors to the Future Open Beautiful Styles to Make your House a Home Available through your local MDL Dealer Gas Bar & Take-Out Ltd. • Chesterfried Chicken • Subs • Pizza vNe • Burgers • Fries • Soft & Hard Ice Cream • Confectionery • Movies to Rent • Propane • Gas Eat-In or Take-out 4887-6951)— Sorry for the inconvenience - No delivery Fridays & Saturdays until further notice Corner Turnberry & Mill Streets, Brussels WESTWARD TOOLS & EQUIPMENT Blyth 523-9681 Brussels 887-9661 5 piece Reversible Ratchet Set Metric or Standard PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1998. For Teens, By Teens What do teens like to spend their cash on? By Mark Nonkes Money may make the world go round, but the question one asks themselves is where did it all go? It seems after a weekend, the paycheque has disappeared, and you are left scrabbling your brain on where the money went. Going out and surveying several different teens, from all high school grades, I found that around 70 per cent of them had some type of part- time job. The only people who did not were in Grades nine and 10. Also, about 60 per cent of people asked, had a savings account to use later on in life. Teenagers do not have many expenses, and have a considerable amount of money for extra items. Many companies are aware of this fact and target teenagers in ad campaigns. The top five actual results of the survey prove to be a bit of a surprise to me. A total of 55 students were asked. 5. A tie — alcohol and music. Each category received five votes. Music was not surprising, however, I was not aware teens spend as much money on alcohol as they do. A range of $30 - $90 a month was spent by the individuals who spent most of their money on alcohol. 4. Car stuff — as I expected, gasoline and car care is very expensive. One estimated price for gasoline a month was $60 . Seven students chose this category as their number one money grabber. 3. A surprise to me, cigarettes. It seems that those who choose to smoke usually spend most of their money on cigarettes, before any other item. Eleven people chose this category, and a considerable percentage of those who smoke do not have a savings account. One teen, who smokes two packs a day, estimated her expenses to exceed $300 a month. Upon hearing this amount, another student commented, "Seems like a (heck) of a lot of money to kill yourself." 2. Food. A total of 14 youths chose this as their number one category. Prices ranged from $50 to $150 a month. 1. Clothing is the winner of what students spend most of their money on. Most students don't have to buy food, they choose to. Many parents choose to make their children pay for their own clothing. However, clothing only got one more vote than food. The average amount students spent on clothing is $60 a month. Grade 9s go to work When adults stereotype teens By Becky Nethery Last year I turned 13, my first year as an official teen. At the time I thought it was so cool, and as it comes the time for me to turn 14 1 realize that it is still pretty cool. But a year later I see things differently. Throughout the year there have been several times that my friends and I have been negatively stereotyped by older adults. There have been times when I have gone into a store and the employee or manager have left paying customers to follow me around and make sure that I don't steal anything. Another example of this would By Rachel de Boer I've heard it said that the hardest thing in life is going through high school, because of fights and peer pressure. Already at the high school where I go there have been several fights in gym class, during lunch, and while waiting for the bus. Many students have even been expelled. Then there is peer pressure. You always hear parents talking about drugs, alcohol and smoking. Don't get into the bad habit. I was so nervous about going to high school. Everyone was talking about it. It seemed like a big step. Once you got there it was nothing. Just longer classes, more freedom and a lot more people. be if there is a group of teenage students standing out-side a store, the adult automatically decides that the reason they needed to go into the store is really not that important. I find this very negative and degrading. I'm sure that many students can relate or have similar stories to tell. This topic came up in my Grade 9 English class and my teacher had some helpful hints for teens on how to deal with being negatively stereotyped. The first thing that she said was that often the adults do this because they are afraid that we will in some Everyone that you talk to in Grade 9 says that it is a lot better than public school. I went from a school with about 200 students to a school with about 600. Now my only worry is school closures. As a student, I wish that the schools could just stay the same. I understand that there is a major cut back and that the schools are not as full as they used to be. For example Central Huron Secondary School used to have 1,600 students in the school, now they only have about 600. So, yes, something has to be done. Putting the JK to OAC all in one school would not be as bad as they say. With that difference in age way harm them or make rude comments about them. She also said that they just do it because they don't understand us. Okay, I realize that they might not understand us or the things that we do but couldn't they at least try to give us a fair chance. All people between the ages of 12 to 20 arc not bad. I'm also not trying to put a label on adults by saying that they all stereotype teens in a negative way, I'm just saying that it has happened. To the adults who do stereotype teens negatively please don't or at least try not to. And I know that I will try my best not to stereotype adults. they would probally divide the school into two sections. You live with different ages at home, why is it so different at school? I do not think that they should close CHSS and send them to dif- ferent schools because when you go to high school you meet stu- dents from different areas. If they close the school then I will be split up from new friends, even from friends that I have gone to school with all of my life. Also closing the school means longer bus rides. Students who live in Clinton would then have to ride the bus to Goderich. I would probally end up going to Seaforth or Wingham. Something has to be done. By Becky Nethery and Rachel de Boer On Wednesday Nov 4, throughout Canada students in Grade 9 went to work. "Take Your Kids to Work Day", is a nation-wide program where students in Grade 9 accompany their parents, relatives or friends to their job site. We had the chance to job shadow Bonnie Gropp (editor of The Citizen), Janice Becker (repor- ter/photographer)and Jeannette McNeil (advertising manager). While there we learned many things about what goes on to publish a small newspaper. First we learned about the camera and how to operate it. Then we went out into Blyth and practised taking pictures along the Greenway Trail. Then we learned how to develop the pictures that we took by using the developing equipment in the darkroom. For the remainder of the day we took notice of the many other jobs that may often go unnoticed. We also had a chance to do some writing on our own that could possibly be published in -the paper. While students help their parents at the job site they learn important job skills that will help them in the work force, when it's their time. Over all the day was a pretty cool day. We learned a lot about what working at a small-town newspaper such as The Citizen means. 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