On a hot, stuffy evening on September 17th, people ranging from students, parents and staff gathered at Paint Branch High School to roam certain activities and meet the teachers.
This event, which occurs every year, allows many students to band together to help volunteer or just have fun in helping is known as Back-to-School Night.
The purpose of Back-to-School Night is to inform parents of how each individual students are prospering in school, the clubs and sports that are available, to meet teachers and to raise money to help fund the activities that keep Paint Branch High School alive.
Every year having old students graduate and new students come in effect the dynamic of how back-to-school night is set up and how the teachers feel about the rest of the year.
According to Ms. Kasprzak, a science teacher at Paint Branch High School, “I believe that freshmen year should be taken seriously because it truly counts. Many students may not think so now but when junior and senior year comes you’ll have want to have done better.”
By being interested in the activities and fun that can go along with school introduced at back to School Night students mostly freshmen could be persuaded to be more interested in having good grades to be able to do extracurricular activities.
Most of the clubs here at Paint Branch High School are student run, based on the opinions and ideas that different student bodies are interested in.
Edwin Alvarez and Sierra Campbell two students at Paint Branch High School, are the leaders and main ideas composers of the LGBT club. Alvarez explains, “The LGBT club is based around the factors of bringing awareness to different sexuality issues, and discovering who you are as a person and your sexuality.”
Traveling around the main floor where the main events were set up different activities of all range were set up for parents and students to ask questions about.
After gaining background info on some clubs and buying treats the movement of parents and students to go to each assigned class begin around 7:30 pm.
Each parent and student attending the event was given a copy of their child’s schedule and directed to go to each class for a short period of time to gain a background on the teacher and what the students would be learning in class provided by each teacher.
Students who volunteered in helping the event glided the hallways helping lost parents and students find their classrooms.
After attending all seven classes and everything was wrapped up, student volunteers and teachers begin cleaning and up and parents and students attending began to leave.