Chaparral High School - Golden Embers Yearbook (Scottsdale, AZ)

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iofA 'P 065952, 06924 Academics: Back to Basics TIME Tiiie ond formci by permission of Th Time Inc. cociemics Z

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T 'F!l . . . Chaparral BIWSYS As sTudenTs of Chaparral as well as residenTs of Arizona, we had The besT of boTh worlds. Even wiTh changes on STaTe and local levels, our school reflecTed a sarneness ThaT was sTricTly Chaparral. EveryThing from classrooms To cloThing repre- senTed The way we felT, and ThaT feeling was unique. There have been so many changes since The Birds firsT Took flighT, ThaT Those new To us rnighT have had difficulTy caTching The spiriT. We grew more every day and a single sTudenT sTrange To our ways and biways, could have goTTen losT in The crowd. BUT suddenly, in a maTTer of weeks, The newcomers, Too, were drawn inTo whaT can only be defined as Firebird Fever . Chaparral Biwaysff?

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We N ,,V, Af 1. Anne Vick and Cary Dassenbrock partici- pate in science experiment Cpage 305. 2. Tracy Egbert finishes English assignment fpage 253. 3. Yearbook photographer Ken Demski takes a break Qpage 365. A. Business student Kevin Wong runs ditto machine Cpage 231. 5. CHS chorus practices People Cpage 4153. TIME cover fopposite pagej: Pete Segal turns his trig text in all directions, but his homework answers just aren't there. Fundamentals re-emphasized High school is a time for many things, the most important being an education, and while it is true that high school is not manda- tory in Arizona, CHS students found learning a necessary part of growing. lt was the trend towards basic classes - math, reading and writ- ing - that contributed to the growth. Students found that try- ing to build on a weak founda- tion was not as beneficial as learning the fundamentals of English and math in a deliberate manner. Teachers conformed immediately to this re-birth of the basics, and students seem to be no worse for the wear. A wearing down of the non- essential and a building up of the required gave students a wellrounded background in all subjects. Through review and re-evaluation, students were able to add to their knowledge, and some became not simply Ngood students , but scholars. Education is a continuing, life- long process, but high school is the place to be taken advan- tage of for the basics. Academics ft 1