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Spring 2003: "Access Denied: Should Youth Access to the Internet be Restricted?"
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Ridgefield High School - Ridgefield, WA
Class: Contemporary World Problems
Our class is called Contemporary World Problems with Mr. Bob
Ford as the teacher. We are composed mostly of seniors and a few
juniors. Our school is located in Ridgefield, Washington which
is about twenty minutes north of Portland, Oregon. Our school
has a total population of a whopping 585 students, which is the
size of some graduating classes at other schools. With this number
of students our classification is a 2A school in sports. The student
body is made up mostly of Caucasian kids, about 95 %, which reflects
our city demographics. Ridgefield's population is around 4000
people in the city limits.
Ridgefield is mainly known for two things: the birthplace of
U-Haul, and the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. Lewis and
Clark actually slept twice in what is now our Refuge. We are also
fortunate to be twenty minutes from Portland to the south, two
and a half hours from Seattle to the north, ninety minutes from
Mt. Hood (skiing and snowboarding!), and ninety minutes from the
Pacific Ocean beaches. Although we live so close to the ocean,
we don't get to surf like California, we just enjoy the freezing
cold wind and rain (and it rains a lot!). Ridgefield is located
on Lake River, a tributary to the Columbia River.
Our school mascot is the Spudders, a mighty potato, which was
on David Letterman's top ten worst school mascot list. We have
some good sports teams—the state champion baseball team,
ninth for state basketball (as of now), and the state tennis champion
and national rodeo champion both attend our school. The best part
of our school is its location because from the school parking
lot we have an excellent view of Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams and
Mt. Hood.
On a corny note, there's our school and town (it can't be called
a city) in a nutshell- it's not much, but it's home.
Visit our website: www.highwired.com/ridgehs
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