Basketball at Borman

Basketball tryouts have been going on since last week. Neither the guy's nor the girl’s team has been made yet. There are a lot of guys going for basketball this year, but not as many girls. Boy tryouts are being held at the gym. [That's not fair] for us because our tryouts are out in the courts. Our coaches are Ms.Tourtillott and Ms.Clark. Some of the eighth grade girls are Sierra, Tierra, Viviana, and Kassandra. We’ll hopefully have a good team and win all the games. Well, at least most of them.

Kassandra

Role Models

It is hard for us eighth graders to be role models. Little kids sometimes copy the bad not the good even if we tell them to be good. Some little kids look up to gangsters because of media or older family members who are in a gang. Violence in their neighborhood effects their behavior and actions in class. We can’t compete with superheroes or gangsters that kids consider role models.

By: Amy, Adrian, Belen

Opinion: Borman's Best Couple

Best Couple

Our best couple at Borman is Maritza and Nelson. They’re the cutest couple ever. You always see them together at lunch. Maritza is the loud one and Nelson is the shy one. It’s really cute. They’re the best couple on campus.

Gabby and Jasmine

Fashion at Borman

The fashion at Borman is pretty cool. The kind of shoes students wear are vans, Jordans and Nikes. They like the popular type of shoes. Many people also wear polo shoes or coach shoes which are pretty nice but Jordans, Nikes, and vans are a little bit better!

Gabby and Jasmine

Girl's Soccer Championship

A few weeks ago the girls soccer team played against Glen L. Downs for the championship. The girls soccer team played a excellent game as they out scored the other team and won against Glen L. Downs. The score was 4-1. The Borman girls coaches are Ms. Towne and Ms. Clark. They were extremely proud of every single one of the players.

Basketball Tryouts

Basketball tryouts will be on November 9, 2009. We will meet in the gym at 3:15 with Mr. Noble. Be sure to try hard and be ready to run. Mr. Noble wants people who try hard in class and have good grades. Good luck and ready to try hard.

Drama at Borman

Well here at Borman there is a lot of drama because of people disliking each other. Even though it's not easy to drop the drama you should try honestly, but then again when the other person you're fighting with keeps on going the problem just gets bigger and bigger. As knowing myself I don’t like to drop things until they drop it. I'm sure there are other people like me and I’ve seen plenty of fights this year. Fighting is another way drama is solved but it is not the best way. This is our school that we have to go every day and when there are rumors or things like that going on about you you're not going to want to go. Even if they are true those are your personal issues so why tell everyone else. So my last word is to stop putting other people down just to extend your own self-esteem.

Sierra N

Opinion: School Uniforms

Nobody likes school uniforms. Even some parents don’t like uniforms. Mostly at every school in Phoenix has this very ugly, unstylish, dull uniform. I think this school could be much better if we didn’t have to wear uniforms. It could express everybody’s original style and we wouldn’t be so bad at this school if we didn’t have uniforms. I also think that wearing uniforms holds all of our feelings inside our minds, because we have these horrible uniforms. I understand that it protects against gang violence, but since this school started have we ever had a gang related argument? No! We haven’t! Another reason why uniforms are lame is because of the colors. The colors are horrible! These principals need to put in some bright colors, not everybody likes these lame, dull, disliked colors! Put some yellow in them, put some bright orange in here!! We can even try hot pink!

-Tierra

Soccer

At Borman we had soccer. It was the coolest sport ever! Our coaches were Ms. Towne and Ms. Clark. We were undefeated! Playoffs were pretty hard, but we tried so hard to get in first place and that’s why we got in first place and to celebrate we went to Peter Piper Pizza!!

Perla