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Wild Lights at The Living Desert

By Keera Stone

 

If you didn’t know already, the Living Desert does a special holiday time event that started November 24th and ends December 31st. The times are from 6-9 on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturday. The price per person for a ticket is $10 and $8 for children and military. For many families, it is the most exciting time of the year. It is a time to spend together and look at the beautiful lights while bundled up and drinking hot coco or eating delicious brownies, popcorn, cotton candy, or churros. There is an entertainment center where the children meet Santa while the parents take pictures of them and there are carolers and tables for people to sit and enjoy their time. There is a carousel and a train the kids and even adults can ride. You can of course go shop in the gift shop for late christmas shopping.  There is a tunnel of lights and even a little town scene that is lit up. This event has been going on for over 20 years and if you missed it this year then don’t forget to go and enjoy the fun next year during the holiday season!

 

 

 

 

2nd part of Cruel School Punishments in Florida

by Misael Magana

  Well, this stuff is back, so that means more bizarre punishments are heading your way, enjoy! Last time, if anyone even read the previous article, ha LOL no one reads our newspaper and many still don’t even know we have a newspaper here at this school. Also, if this is your first time reading the Silver Shield give yourself a pat on the back because you will be one of the only people to ever read this, minus the editors and me, the writer; well no matter back to the real topic.

  First punishment we shall talk about is something called “The Monster Closet”, where your fears and horrors come true. Here is how the punishment was conceived, a Pre-K class was reading a story about monsters that lived in closets. The teacher then thought it would be a good punishment for little four year Kelon Chaney, that means Kelon was causing some trouble, and as little Kelon’s classmates laughed at him, Kelon’s teacher then proceeded to stuff three other children in “The Monster Closet” with Kelon. He was so frightened that he ended up vomiting from all that fear.

  Next one is about some fifth-graders who were forced to eat off a dirty cafeteria floor and the only thing keeping their food from touching the cafeteria floor was not trays, but a small piece of paper. The vice principal denied everything, when asked about this issue, and said that the real reason was that there was a lack of seats. Sure, Mr. Vice Principal, that sounds legit (read that in a sarcastic tone). It was later found out that the teachers threatened the children that if they told, then they would stay longer on the floor. Don’t worry there was at least a lawsuit, in which only seven of the affected students split a $500,000 settlement. Well, next punishment, because who is not furious already?

 Third, Lamaya Cammon was playing with the beads in her newly-braided hair, her teacher then persuaded her to come to her desk where she then grabbed her scissors, grabbed the child’s braids and cut a piece off because it was “disrupting the class”. This incident happened in front of the class, so there was no hiding what that teacher did, so then her teacher was forced to apologize to the mother of Lamaya Cammon.

  Just to make this clear, none of these bizarre punishments happened at Shadow Hills High School. I say this because I scared administration last article, so sorry. However, I also write this as a warning to the teachers and administration that if you get any of these horrible ideas and think it is fine, you will pay, so think before you do or suffer some of these consequences now or later.

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