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Freshman sees North’s rival on the home front
Everyone knows that
Kimberly and North are big
rivals. When Kimberly and
North are facing off on the
football field, there is al-
ways a big turn out.
For most Appleton North
students, the rivalry only af-
fects them in school. In my
family, the Kimberly and
Appleton North rivalry is
everywhere.
My sister and I both
live in the Appleton North
school zone. She has since
graduated while I am just
starting my high school
journey.
On the other side of my
family, are four children
who have graduated from
Kimberly. My cousin, Jack,
has an older sister who
graduated from Kimberly
last year. Like me, Jack is
also a freshman, except he
goes to Kimberly, Appleton
North’s rival high school.
Jack and I will have the
most different high school
experiences possible. For
a start, he joined the fresh-
men football team, whereas
I am extremely unathletic.
For the sake of high school
experiences, I joined tennis
and curling, both non-cut
sports.
However, that’s not the
only thing that makes our
high school experiences
different. Kimberly doesn’t
have 48-minute-ish classes,
they have 90-minute class-
es.
Kimberly uses a system
called block scheduling,
so instead of periods, they
have blocks 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Block 3 is split up into 3
mini blocks that last 45
minutes long, called blocks
A, B, and C. During those
mini blocks, you would
have a lunch period, band
or choir, or another class.
In between the blocks,
Kimberly students have 10
entire minutes of passing
time, and every Wednesday
is a late start day.
Olivia Mungie, a sopho-
more, spent her freshman
year at Kimberly, so I asked
her what she thought of
block scheduling. “I prefer
North's class schedule to
Kimberly's block schedul-
ing,” said Mungie, “It can
be very exhausting and bor-
By Sarah Fleming
Sarah Fleming currently attends Appleton North
while her cousin Jack is a freshman at Kimberly.
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Because of their block
scheduling, Kimberly stu-
dents get more homework.
“Instead of one lesson a day,
there were three lessons a
day and three days of home-
work due the next. I found
that the block schedule in-
creases the intensity of the
class,” Mungie said.
Kimberly doesn’t have
an IE time either, which
means that they have to do
clubs or talk to teachers af-
ter school instead of during
school.
Another difference is that
Kimberly does not have any
finals week no matter what
year in school you are.
Kimberly is most known
for their football and has
many “football traditions.”
These traditions include
“wearing jerseys that have
never known a loss,” and
“winning state champion-
ships,” according to my
uncle.
Kimberlymay have a bet-
ter football team, but North
has better school spirit.
According to Jack, Kim-
berly’s homecoming week
was “kinda disappointing.”
North’s homecoming week
was anything but, especially
during Senior Citizen Day.
As a freshman who had not
experienced Senior Citizen
Day until this year, it was
insane how much effort the
seniors put into it. In case
you missed it, they dressed
up in ugly sweaters, drew
wrinkles on their faces, used
canes, walkers, and wheel-
chairs, heckled students at
passing time, formed a hu-
man wall in the hallways
and walked as slow as pos-
sible, making everyone late
to their classes, and to top
it off, formed a “riot” in the
main stairway, causing all
hallway flow to stop com-
pletely so they could chant
and fall down at the same
time.
Kimberly’s Senior Citi-
zen Day only had people
dressed like seniors, but
none of them acted like a
real senior citizen.
North apparently also has
a cleaner cafeteria and bath-
rooms and more of a variety
of academic choices than
at Kimberly, according to
Mungie. “At Kimberly, you
do not go in the rest room!”
A big difference between
Kimberly and North is that
Kimberly does not have
Chromebooks, but they do
use Apple and Dell technol-
ogy.
Being a freshman this
year, I could not imagine
going through high school
without
my trusty-ish
Chromebook at my side.
However, according to Ol-
ivia Mungie,
Kimberly
does not block websites like
Facebook, Pinterest, or oth-
er social media types.
Mungie also thinks Kim-
berly has a better overall at-
mosphere. “The people (at
Kimberly) are so welcoming
and accepting, they make
you feel like you have been
there your entire life, where-
as here I have noticed peo-
ple are very clique- oriented
and not as quick to make
new friends or accept you as
you are.” One similarity be-
tween North and Kimberly
is the live announcements at
Kimberly happen every Fri-
day just like here at North.
But unlike North, Kimberly
doesn’t have everyone’s fa-
vorite janitor, Rodney, en-
couraging them to fly with
the eagles even if they are
hooting with the owls over
the weekends.
I couldn’t imagine going
to high school without Rod-
ney to give me solids and
to alert me when the school
store is selling cookies, or
to loudly sing me Happy
Birthday during lunch so
that everyone knows it’s my
birthday.
Another addition to
the live announcements
that Kimberly lacks is Mr.
Lightning. Although it’s
not a traditional mascot,
Mr. Lightning, aka, Mitch
Widule, helps with the pep
rallies and attends sporting
events like football games
to lead chants.
In conclusion, Kimberly
and North are very dif-
ferent. I had no idea what
block scheduling was or
that it was still used before
I asked Jack what Kimber-
ly was like. I just assumed
that all high schools had the
same scheduling as North.
Both my cousin and I
will have different high
school experiences, but in
some ways, they will be
very similar. I will be look-
ing forward to the day when
I can rub it in my cousin's
face that Appleton North
defeated Kimberly on our
new turf field.
FEATURES
Appleton, Wisconsin June 2016 Vol. XXI
Issue III
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