Isn't tonight just the perfect night for some good old-fashioned style boxing? In one corner we have the amazing and ambitious Mount Vernon "Majors" High School. In the other corner we have the fabulous and festive Walt Whitman "Wildcats" Middle School. This is the first time in history that something's ever been done like this. Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready to rumble!
There are a lot of differences between Mount Vernon High School and Walt Whitman Middle School. Of course, the obvious is that one is a middle school and the other one is a high school. Another difference is how they handle the debt policy and obligations. I'm sure that everybody knows about the debt policy here at Mount Vernon, right? If no, then pay close attention for the reason that you might learn a thing or two today. As you might know, or not, Mount Vernon is more than $30,000 in debt, and its all in student fees and obligations. This is resulting in withdrawal of extra-curricular activities for some students of Mount Vernon High School.
Now, $30,000 is a whole lot of hard cash. That's enough to pay for a full-equipped Honda Civic Hybrid vehicle with a GPS-navigational system. Or maybe even enough to renovate your entire room, buy a flat-screen TV, and still have some money left over to buy perhaps 10 Snickers or so. So yes, $30,000 is a bundle of money, and unfortunately, it is also the amount that Mount Vernon has in debt; while Whitman does not. Could it be that perhaps Whitman handles procedures differently than Mount Vernon?
Whitman actually does a lot of things differently than Mount Vernon. For instance, when Whitman would have locker clean-outs, librarians would be in the all the hallways with carts collecting library books. It turns out that most students that claimed their library book to be "lost" or "stolen" actually had their books in their hall lockers all along. A different example is that when students have to pay fees for their electives, typically teachers find a way to motivate students to do so. Like in Whitman, if students don't pay the required fee for the elective, that would mean fewer and fewer supplies for that course. Some students of elective courses say that in their class their supplies are very limited due to most of their classmates not turning in their fees. So this shows that this new debt policy does affect us in a hard way. So hurry up and get to turning in those debts!
