JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL–As we settle into this new school year, many upperclassmen are wondering, \u201cDid the freshmen get smaller this year?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tSenior Alethea Shirilan-Howlett was walking into school on the first day of school when she felt a pull on her leg. She looked down and, much to her surprise, saw a short freshman girl. The girl had been following her older sister, but got confused when she got lost among the sea of legs and ended up following Shirilan-Howlett instead. \u201cI was shocked at how tiny this girl was. I mean, she looked like a fifth grader. I guess I should have seen it coming, each year they get a little bit smaller,\u201d said Shirilan-Howlett, who stands at 7\u20193\u2019\u2019. The freshman in question, Anka Chiorini, replied, \u201cUh, I feel like I\u2019m a normal height, maybe you\u2019re just freakishly tall.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tBut this isn\u2019t an isolated incident. A survey of the Jamesville-Dewitt population found that, on average, the freshman class was shorter than every other class by a statistically significant margin. The survey also showed that this isn\u2019t just an issue of short freshmen, but every grade is shorter than the one above. \u201cI\u2019m not surprised,\u201d says senior William Guisbond, who is 8\u20192\u2019\u2019. \u201cEach year, they get shorter and shorter. I\u2019m starting to worry about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tBiology teacher Keith Comfort finds a scientific reason for the shrinking freshman class. \u201cAs we saw in the Netflix film Tall Girl<\/em>, it can be really difficult to be tall. People call you names, \u2018Sasquatch\u2019, \u2018Beanstalk\u2019, it\u2019s enough that evolution has kicked in. These freshmen are short because they find it easier to get through high school that way.\u201d Senior Ayeh Hajjari agrees. \u201cBeing short has been great in high school. I get to run through the hallways like a small dog, weaving between people and just shoving them out of the way. I\u2019m never late for class. I\u2019m proud to be short.\u201d JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL–As we settle into this new school year, many upperclassmen are wondering, \u201cDid the freshmen get smaller this year?\u201d Senior Alethea Shirilan-Howlett was walking into school on the first day of school when she felt a pull on her leg. She looked down and, much to her surprise, saw a short freshman girl. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":10498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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