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BY JOE MARCHESE
St. Rose Academy plans
to adopt a Student
Assistance Program within
the next year.
Every school in the state
of Pennsylvania is required
by law to have a Student
Assistance Program.
The Student Assistance
program is a program
through which school
counselors provide support
and interventions for
students by working with
staff, community, and
county or state agencies.
This program is usually
coordinated through the
Guidance Office in most
schools.
Teachers are required to
have training in order to be
facilitators in the Student
Assistance Program.
Student AssistanceProgram
Letter To The Editor
BY ALISSA WAHLERS
I would like to state my
opposition to universal
healthcare.
I'm not stating that I'm
against people having
healthcare.
My concern is how this
plan will be funded.
Editorial
BY CANDICE TOMSKY
Brianna and Victoria
Zawacki are both eighth
grade students at Saint
Rose Academy and they
are identical twins.
These girls are not ,
however, the only set of
twins at Saint Rose
Academy.
In the same eighth grade
class there is a set of twin
boys, Jonathan and Trevor
Cobb.
Brianna and Victoria,
also known as Bria and
Tori, are starting in varsity
basketball this year and will
be playing with and against
12th graders.
Last year Bria and Tori
played on the seventh and
eighth grade basketball
team, so this will be a big
change for them.
Both twins are switching
between playing the guard,
wing, and point guard
positions on the court.
The twin's basketball
coach, Mr. Fitzgerald
claims that "although
having the twins on the
team may be an advantage
when it comes to confusing
the other team's players, it
is also a disadvantage to our
team because I , as well,
mix them up."
Fitzgerald also said that
both girls are good ball
handlers and quick learners.
Jonathan and Trevor
Cobb are also identical
twins who are students in
the eighth grade class.
Mr. Tagatac, their math
teacher, says "it's not too
difficult to tell the boys
JOHNATHAN COBB, TORI ZAWACKI, BRIA ZAWACKI, AND TREVOR COBB
BY CHRISSY YADLOSKY
I think that President
Barrack Obama’s health
care reform is important
and extremely beneficial to
our society as a whole.
Many people do not have
any form of health care in
the United States and
therefore are not able to see
any type of doctor who are
available because of the
family’s or individual’s lack
of money.
With Obama’s new health
care reform, children and
teenagers are now allowed
to be insured under their
parent’s family insurance
until the age of 27.
Obama also helped by
putting together an
independent group of
doctors and medical
professionals to help
recognize and prevent
abuse in our health care
system.
This group will work with
Congress every year to
advance ideas and
encourage more efficiency
and better quality health
insurance.
Obama has also ordered
insurance companies to
forbid any prejudice with
regard to gender, race, or
previously existing
conditions.
His reform will also
enable small businesses to
provide affordable and good
quality insurance for both
employers and employees
by giving them tax credits
and health insurance
exchange.
BY JOE MARCHESE
Every public school in
the state of Pennsylvania is
required by law to have
students take the PSSA
tests.
These tests enable the
state to monitor the
academic progress of
students by evaluating how
students are learning as
compared to other students
who take the tests.
These tests are not
required to be given at
private schools.
Students currently take
tests in the following areas:
English, reading, math,
science, and writing.
Social Studies testing is
new and is only
administered at select
schools in the state.
Standardized Testing
BY CANDICE TOMSKY
Mr. Genovese is a science
teacher at Saint Rose
Academy and is the director
of the Watershed Project.
This year Mr. Genovese
assigned his twelfth grade
Physics a project which
involved designing and
building a catapult.
The twelfth grade also
created and designed bottle
rockets.
Mr. Genovese likes to
cook and realized this
interest when he moved out
of his house and had to start
cooking for himself.
Mr. Genovese is also
interested in cars because
his grandfather was a
mechanic and he was
always
working with his
grandfather at the shop.
His brother also got into
working on cars and at 12
years old, Mr. Genovese
was already restoring cars.
He now owns a Jeep
Wrangler and a 1974 Dodge
Dart. His dream car is a
1970 Dodge Challenger.
Mr. Genovese celebrates
Christmas a little bit
differently than most
people. His
family uses a metal pole
instead of a Christmas tree.
His dad never agreed with
having a commercialized
Christmas, so they put their
presents around a metal
pole instead. They don’t
put up any decorations
either.
Another ritual that has
become a part of the
Genovese family Christmas
tradition is “Feats of
Strength.”
Two sets of twins have teachers seeing double
Question of the Month : What is one of your family's Christmas traditions?
Jacob Matthew EvansGrade 11
Emily Sheaffer Grade 8
Infinity HollandGrade 9
“I pick out all of my
Christmas presents and
then my mother wraps
them.”
“My relatives come over
for Christmas Eve and
then they come over to
have lunch on Christmas
day.”
“My family decorates
the Christmas tree
together.”
Health Care Reform one true way of making
money, and that's collecting
taxes, so it's going to cost
more for healthcare, the
only way to pay for it is
to increase taxes on the
middle and upper class. If
our family taxes go up, we
risk not being able to buy
our own healthcare, so then
we'll be looking towards the
government to supplement
ours, and it goes on and on.
In the end , there will be
more debt and less health
care, and our country would
be worse off.
Healthcare reform needs
to be addressed, but
universal healthcare is not
the answer.
President Obama says
the plan will be self-funded
by people paying for their
insurance. My question to
that is this: if they can't pay
for their insurance now,
how can they pay for it
then?
President Obama says he
will save money because
when the government runs
it there will be less “red
tape” and overhead. Every
time the government takes
over something, they have a
strong history of increasing
overhead and “red tape.”
So, again I ask: when the
government increases the
Expenses, who will pay for
this?
The government has only
This occurs when Mr.
Genovese and his brother
wrestle his dad around the
pole that they use as a
Christmas tree.
No one can begin to eat
Christmas dinner until
someone pins his father.
Nice try, Mr. Genovese
but this sounds like a
Seinfeld Christmas to me !
apart because there are
assigned to different seats.
MR. ANDREW GENOVESE