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Personal Qualities Gained In student-centered high school the extra-curricular activities focus squarely on the student as person, and if the function of the high school is to build bridge between the home and the work place or college, there must be more focus on the person than in the present traditional high school. This does not mean less emphasis on the subject matter, but recognition that real success in the subject matter areas depends first and foremost on well functioning student. Two million inmates in the prisons across our nation with 80 percent of them lost in the world of alcohol and drugs must change, as is clearly depicted in a nation at risk report of our failing schools (Riley, 1983, and Wren, 1998). The real success of students who have participated heavily in extra-curricular activities in the past that have become model citizens must be shared with more and more students in the future. In the new Student-Centered high school, extra-curricular activities must be considered as must for all students, and as specific requirement for graduation not unlike math and science in the traditional curriculum if we are going to reduce the size of our prison populations even mite. Team Spirit The success of many competitive team sports depends in large degree to which each and every member executes properly the expected role that has been clearly defined for such activities. Early in such competitive settings, including intramural sports, all participants learn that no team is stronger than the weakest link, and that each person in team is as important as every other person. This, of course, is the basic principle for success in the family structure, in the community, and in the nation as whole. The precise manner in which all team members compliment each other is the single determinant for achieving success and victory in any competitive match. The JROTC program, band, intramural and competitive sports, debating teams and the like tend to build the basis for real success in competitive economic society, and where there must be full recognition and acceptance of all individuals regardless of race, religion or color. Belongingness The personal feeling of being part of some larger whole begins with feeling of belonging by being part of family and other heritage factors associated therewith. In democracy that feeling of belonging must grow, and they must learn early that personal identity includes religion, race, culture, the high school, the community, and above all the nation and the flag of our country. Later in marriage that feeling of belonging must cause individuals to be true to marriage and later family involvements in the same manner that they would to the traditional high school football team. When that true feeling of belonging emerges there will be less need to escape into the world of alcohol and drugs so characteristic of our present prison populations. Personal Pride Pride is feeling of personal gratification that derives largely from secure feelings of being member of groups largely than self and flows directly from feelings of belonging. It is typically characterized by feelings of importance of present personal involvements thereby eliminating the immediate and urgent need to seek escape through the use of marijuana, alcohol and other drugs. For too many young people during the highly emotional period of adolescence in high school with an increasing emphasis solely on scholastic and curricular activities tend to seek relief through the use of marijuana, alcohol and other drugs. The personal pride typically associated with full and flowing membership in extra-curricular activities promises personal involvements as real and meaningful substitute for escape into the world of alcohol and drugs. Our prisons are filled with more than 80 percent of inmates who only rarely have history of extra curriucular involvements in the high school during adolescent years (Wren 1998). …
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