Puma's Tale

This semester our school introduced CORE. Which stands for Community-Minded, Own it, Respect, and Eager to learn. This has been a really cool program that has gone through our school. It really helps us be a good school and strive to be better. I think this is a really good concept and very original. Yet its not so original for Powell. Last Monday i was at Newton for a Powell Puma volleyball game and couldn't help noticing some posters on the wall. These posters stated a four letter word. NO it wasn't CORE but it was CODE. In Newton CODE stands for Caring, Open-Minded, Discipline, and Engaged. Is it something that just runs in the district? I thought that too until I asked Kelly T. and Bridget D. former students of Newton. They said it was introduced to them last year at the end of sixth grade. They also said they handed out "CODE cards" and put on a play to demonstrate the meaning of CODE. This sounds really similar to what Powell did. They put on a play with CORE man and Dr.Destructo it was a very entertaining. But we got introduced to this idea in the beginning of the second semester of this year. Did we copy Newton? Maybe there trying to get this kind of thing started in the littleton district but i know for sure that Newton had this idea before us. So again whats the difference between CODE and CORE? I don't know that's what we will have to figure out. Even though we don't know who had this idea first it is a great concept to have in our everyday curriculum at Powell Middle School! Hopefully this concept is helping both schools become better schools and helping this students become excited to exceed in school. So no matter what school copied what school lets just end this year with a great and positive attitude!

By: Meredith C.