Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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eaching, teachers and teachees On flunkingj You can't give people grades to I donlt have the time I should for all my kids. if theflilllp- It S,1USt thai they C1011 Y d911V9fth9 They might be able to achieve just a little bit more ifI S' Sot ey don t get paid' could help them more. The large class size is Mr. john Gunter X English frustrating to the teacher, even more than the student, because you're trying to reach all these kids and you 'Somebody's got to say no to you once in a while, no Can,t H tter how old you are. ' Mr. Floyd Rogers Mrs. Ann Swihart X Ma th CoachXBiology i t I think that in general teachers are real good. It bothers me that HOT VQFY many DBOPIG 1115011001 - I've had some that kind of bore me, and some that were to learn something, they re so concerned with getting really exciting ,, Mr. joseph Hess X Government KSUYLUWGTYX Senior 'I was influenced by Mr. Hess. At the first of Teachers aren't as bad as people are always saying ond quarter I was having a lot of trouble in there, they are, My teachers arenq, anyway. whole class was. I thought I was going to flunk I had missed two weeks of school. I went back in Homer Carrera Xjunior re, I went to talk to Mr. Hook, I did everything ing to get Mr. Hess to change his ways, you know. .. . . H any I got fed up with it and Went to talk to Mrt Every student I teach has something to contribute. ss, the whole class did. He goes, 'You know what I MTS. Ann Spivey about you, LeeAnn? and I said, What? and he d, 'you stand up for what you believe in no matter ,, at anybody thinks, even what a teacher thinks, for ITIOW do yoll get across fo, them the Concepts you feel r own welfare. Another thing, you don't care are lmpoftfint If they are T0 11V9 and Defpefllate 3 at you make in here as long as you learn something' democratic society? 911 we bI'0U8h'f UD H 10f 0fD01QtS 3b0Ut h13te3ChiI18 There's a challenge in teaching, but there's thmgs and dlscussed them. I 11 ten you' he can a horrible frustration that's built in when you take the uence anyone, anyone who s mature and wants to . b Y k , d. ,, rn, he can teach them. I-Ie's just a great teacher, 10 ' Ou never HOW how Well You re Succee mg' feat man' Mrs. Shirley Roberts X Social Studies LeeAnn Newman X Senior I v t 'Mrs. Duncan has really influenced me a lot this 5 ,,,. . r, to try harder in school. .p - I ' Lee Hill X Senior 'Until students become seniors, they don't look y far in the future. Mrs. Ann Spivey X English 'I can see that this is a year of some difficulty iscipline, for example, we've had seven runaways in sophomore class at the beginning of the school year - s, to me, is a tremendous problem. We've had other cipline problems that seem to be more severe than rage, like drugs. This is just in the sophomore Mr. Dave Lyons X Assistant Principal '. . . our enrollment has not dropped during the course he year, this year, as it has in years past . . . it adds rowded kinds of things, and the problems that are ated by crowded conditions. A lot of our teachers e to use a different classroom every period, it K. ates crowded conditions in the cafeteria, crowded ditions in the library, the breezeway is crowded after ttaiigfmegiodlsi. . . forlfhe last three or four years, and , a y or t e next t ree or four years, our attendance - - e will have the most rapid growth. Phuoc Van gets help Wlth hw MF. A1 Hookfprjncipaj Newman in Missjere Keeth 's Reading Room. Vietnamese student Nguyen English from tutor LeeAnn Overview - 75

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74 - Academics k .a 'For My People. ' With Ernest Montgomery playing the bongos in the background, Harold Mills' dramatic reading begins the drama students' presentation 'Something All Our Own' to commemorate Black History Week. Qu K? Academics: o johnny can 't read. johnny can 't write. johnny has a job till very la te at night. johnny is a good kid, johnny's not bad, Butjohnny's not the best Student Ihave had. jane wears halters. jane wears dresses down to her knees and Short short tresses. jane has a problem with chewing her gum. And painting her nails in Peach and plum. jane is smart, knows What's goin ' on down, Butjane's not the best Student lhave found. By definition, students and teachers are often on opposite sides. Actually, they fight common enemies: ignorance - misunderstandings - boredom. Some random thoughts of teachers and students reveal a surprising similarity of positions. We had difficulties in the sixties because dissent had come to the campus. It filtered down to the high school level through older brothers and sisters. Now the kids are finding that there is within the establishment the machinery for change. Our present population is responding to the type of atmosphere around them. Mrs. judith Barnett X Eng All my teachers have been good - I've never really had a bad teacher. l've been more influenced, though, by my English teachers. They were involved in the world of Shakespeare, but they still knew what was going on today. That really made me realize that you could have two viewpoints without worrying about one forcing out the other. Sandra Guerra fju There's a lot more to teaching than just teaching. We impress our students in other ways - a student sees a teacher's attitudes, morals and interest, too. You can scare them into learning, threaten 'em with grades. It seems that nowadays you have to make students want to learn. Motivation is the hardest thing. Mr. john Koepke X Marine Bio One teacher did influence me - my second grade teacher taught us Spanish and English. She didn't discriminate against us or say, 'Do you want it in Spanish?' like some of the other teachers did. Odelia Morales fju l 9

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Building esoala tes staff s morale Moving from the aged administration building on Tancahua to what used to be the Corpus Christi Bank and Trust building marked a big change for the school district administrative staff in Iuly, 1975. The new building on Leopard Street housed all of the offices under one roof, instead of scattered portables of the previous building. Some of the modern features included wall-to- wall carpet in most of the offices, with contemporary chairs and couches in the waiting areas. The new building was also the home for the Data Processing Center, where computers printed report cards. Extra rooms were converted into a library and larger room for board meetings. Among other facilities were two cafeterias, one for executives and one for employees, and the newest convenience ever in the history of the Corpus Christi Independent School District, an escalator. Also in Iuly U.S. Iudge Owen Cox issued the long-awaited order in the school desegregation case. The plan, developed by County Medical Examiner Ioseph Rupp was programmed by computer to assign as many elementary pupils as possible to schools within two miles of their home. It required busing 1,500 to 2,000 of the district's approximately 17,000 pupils in grades 1-6, fewer than previously suggested plans. In Ianuary Iudge Cox ordered a desegregation plan be studied to include seventh graders for 1976-77. He also ordered the district to draw up a building plan to further integration. A x Mrs. Catherine Roberts, Mrs. Sheri Stokley and Miss jere Keeth listen with varying reactions to Dr. Dana Williams talk in the cafeteria. The school board held meetings at various schools in 1975 to allow public discussion Q of desegregation alternatives. , i 76 Academics