Eye on the Herd: Campus abuzz during third period
Staff reports
Student reporters for The Tower spent third period on Friday, Aug. 16, observing activity on campus. The following are excerpts from their observational writing exercises:
Salvador Paniagua, student reporter
At a school with constant noise and change, Manteca High is a place for connection. There is not a place on campus you can go without seeing pairs of friends locked in conversation, walking hip to hip in the hallway, or greeting one another as they pass by on their way to class, the office or ...
On the way to the bathroom, you see campus monitors talking to students, friends catching each other in the hall reaching for dap ups that will echo throughout the school’s main thoroughfare, and teachers waving to students on the way to class with 100-yard smiles. During lunch you can hear laughs ring out in the quad as golf carts carrying monitors, janitors and administrators zoom by.
Manteca High isn’t just a school, but a community.
Rebecca Navarro, student reporter
One of Ms. Creighton's Photo students is seen taking pictures of a wood block in the lawn outside the 60 wing. (Mary Jane Alvarez/The Tower)
It’s a sunny afternoon on the campus of Manteca High and the UV is high along with the spirits as the sun beams down. Football players stride out of classrooms and across campus to load onto the bus for their first game of the season — a scrimmage at Monterey Trail of Elk Grove.
The trees sway ever so slightly in the 5-mile-per-hour wind, offering relief from the sun’s heat, while the ambience consists of leaf blowers whirring in the hands of custodians roaming the rooftops. Neon figures chatter amongst themselves, Nikons dangling from their necks. These are Ms. Creighton’s photography students flicking up for their grades. Campus monitors stay alert for Buffs’ safety, checking IDs as their golf carts rattle against the gravel. And construction is underway, their beeping trucks surrounding the school as class is in session.
Just another day at MHS.