Inside Today’s Edition: May 1, 2019

6th Grade Teacher Making A Change To the Whole School

by: Autumn Thomas 6th grade teacher, Rebecca Ruble, at Bellmont Middle School is helping to make a change to the whole school with one club. For around three years now, Ruble has been running a club called Random Acts of kindness because she says, “...all too often, especially in middle school, kids can be cruel....” In this club, Ruble and the girls in it do small acts of kindness such as writing positive and uplifting notes and putting them around school. She also did a bake sale to raise money for a very important cause - Energized by Ebony - so she could help out Beth Ann. See 6th, p.2

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What’s With All the Ruckus!?

by: Ashley Vasil

At Bellmont, the once high school and middle school, has now turned into a construction site for students. The school board decided to add the elementary schools (Southeast and Northwest) to the campus.

After discussing the issue, the school board decided that they would embark on $35M for our school. Brent Lehman (the school’s superintendent) said that it will take 2 years to build. Lehman also said that the project will be done in July of 2019!

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Rebecca Ruble, founder of the Random Acts of Kindness

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When she sees a kid down in the dumps, she makes it her priority to cheer them up. She’ll write them a letter to help insure the person that they have people who are there for them and that everything will get better. This is just one way she is making a change. Her club also tries their hardest to cheer up anyone who is having a hard day or week. When Ruble was asked how this club makes her feel, she relied with, “Warm and fuzzy.” This shows that not only is her club making other people feel amazing, but it makes Rebecca Ruble feel even better because she knows she’s helping. The amount of kindness that has changed Bellmont is undeniably large, thanks to Ruble and her club.

BARD BAILS BELLMONT By: Alexis Evans

After 18 (and more) years of teaching students, Mrs. Bard has chosen to retire. Once the school year of 2018-2019 is over, she will no longer be working at Bellmont. I interviewed her about her time at Bellmont.

Mrs. Bard’s childhood dream job was to be a teacher. She started out by working as a teacher’s aid for kindergarten. Then, Mrs. Bard went on to teach 8th grade. “It was fun. I learned a lot from working here,” she explained. Mrs. Bard told me that the staff were a “great group of people”, which made the job more entertaining. But, the most difficult part was “knowing how to help... and communication.” She said her favorite memories about teaching is the crazy things that would happen in the classes; she would go home, laughing about some of the things that happened. She would tell family some of the things that the kids did, and no one could believe it.

But, all good things come to an end. After many years of helping, she has decided to retire. She doesn’t know what she will do after, but she hopes to “travel and relax.”

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Top 10 Teen Styles of 2019 by Autumn Thomas

1. Layering clothes

2.Guess

3. Striped undershirts

4. Blue denim jacket

5. Flannels

6. Dresses

7. Vintage clothes

8. Checkered Vans

9. Thrasher

10. Champion

Bucket List Ideas by Ashley Vasil

1. Skydiving

2. Bungee jumping

3. Swim with sharks and dolphins

4. Meet your idol

5. Go hot air ballooning

6. Travel out of the country

7. Backpack Europe

8.Scuba diving

9. Star on a show

10. Eat a 60 oz steak

6th Grade

Mrs. Bard is retiring this year.

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Nomophopia. What is that? Nomophobia is the scientific name for the fear of being out of cellular phone contact. Most teens these days are almost always on their phones, or have it within reach. Did you ever stop and wonder what your phone does to your body? Probably not.

The average teenager spends at least a total of nine hours on their phone each day. Staring at a mobile device can damage your eyes, especially for that long. After time, your eyes get used to focusing on things up close that you may start having trouble focusing on far away objects. Also, the longer you look at the screen, you can damage your retina. This can lead to not being able to see things that are close to your eyes.

Many phones can cause stress and depression. Most phones light up or beep every time a text comes through, or someone posts. Eventually, you start stressing because you feel the need to always respond immediately. When you have your phone, you may feel the pull to constantly check and see what’s new. When looking on your phone, you can start worrying if someone will respond of like your newest post. However, when someone doesn’t do those things, you become a little depressed.

All of this staring at your phone can be very entertaining right? The social media, YouTube, and games. That’s all fun, but most teens stay up late because of it. You lose track of time because you become so absorbed in the video you’re watching, trying to stay alive, or liking your crushes picture. So when you eventually go to bed at 2:30 pm, later on that day you may have trouble staying awake, especially during that one teacher’s boring assignment.

Spending too much time on your phone can also effect your social world with people. Now, when you need to ask you mom a question, you pull out your phone and text her, even if she’s on the other side of the room. That goes for when you’re spending time with your friends. The time on our phones prevent us from paying attention when people are talking to you. Studies have showed that this generation of teenagers have less empathy than others. Way back then, when we needed something, we would have to use something called paper and pencil. Crazy right?

All in all, your phones can harm your body as well as your social life. However it is ok to spend some time on your phone. Maybe the next time you’re on your mobile device, you can put it aside and go outside, or God forbid, read a book.

These Teens are not paying attention to one another

What Does Nomophobia do to You? By: Ashley Vasil

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The Bellmont Middle school dress code has frustrated female students for years. We have to either sweat or get yelled at for the smallest things. Many female students struggle trying to find clothing that fits this school’s standards. This dress code is either only enforced to some and others get by. Shorts are a main struggle for middle school girls. We often can’t find shorts long enough for the dress code. In addition to this, if we find a pair they a often uncomfortable. We care about what we look like. Even though it may not seem to matter, it does. Most girls hate the look of the knee length shorts which would lead us to feel self conscious. Tank tops are another issue with the dress code with the dress code. The supposed reason is because it is distracting. It is said that shoulders take young men’s attention from their work. Even though this could be true the girls shouldn’t be punished. Boys should learn to control themselves also. In the paragraphs above show that this dress code should be enforced or extinguished.

ENFORCE OR EXTINGUISH!

By Rachel Bonifas Representation of the dress code being broke.