In The Beginning…

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Samantha M. and Lexi F.

Do you know how old this school is? How many kids have been here before you?

The first years of Day Creek were 2004-2005. Most of the kids who attended Day Creek were originally from Summit Intermediate.

“The reason you go into teaching is to be around kids, and the energy and excitement in the everyday life of a student makes your day,” said Mr. Embleton, the former principal of Day Creek Intermediate.

Students lives then and now aren’t as different as you might think. Maybe making friends might have been a little different considering everyone was a “scrub,” not just the 6th graders.

“It was pretty easy to make friends only because the teachers had so many icebreakers to start your class with. I felt at the time everybody was just so excited to come to a new school,” said Justine Eulloqui, a past 7th grader from the first year at DCIS.

Nowadays everyone knows that students are “dating” here and there. What about the first years, was it still like that?

“Going out was pretty much two people agreeing that they liked each other and then they basically told [people] ‘oh yeah, we’re going out,’” said another former student.

Back then students didn’t have cell phones either. They had to talk to people on a home phone which usually meant talking to a parent first.

“I remember having to call my crushes on home phones and I actually had to talk to their parents first. ‘Can I speak to- [hangs up].’ I would be jealous at some of my friends though, being so cool with their crushes’ dad. You know, how are you able to connect with them?” said Jason McNichols.

“Dating on a home phone is not cool, especially to my fellas out there. Try calling your crush’s house and talking to her dad,” said Karen Bailey.

The school used to have several  extra curricular activities.

“During the Great Recession, we had to cut back on extras that were here just to conserve money,” said Mr. Embleton, the former principal of Day Creek Intermediate.

One of the activities that we no longer have is color guard. One reason this activity was started was because Mr. Embleton’s daughter took up an interest in tall flags and thought it would be a fun things kids could do at our school. Unfortunately, the color guard only lasted two years.

“I did it one year, then Mrs. Kalina did it for another year. Nobody wanted to do it [after that],” said Mrs. Rivas.  The color guard program was then discontinued.

Do you wish we still had the competition from all the extracurriculars? What is the staff’s point of view on whether we should have them or not?

“It was fun seeing other teams in the district, and how their programs developed. I coached eighth grade because I wanted to get the girls ready for high school, so they have an opportunity to make the team, and had a place to call home when they made high school,” said Mrs. Keck, a seventh grade teacher who was here during the first years of Day Creek.

Maybe this school wasn’t as different as you think it was.