Coronado High School - El Viajero Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Ck wemgkwlw Stuffing his face, Joel Watton sam ples the foods in the Foreign Lan guage Taste. no play, and now three kinds of high school transcripts invaded our diploma potential. ln LISD, graduates of each high n-nf :ta ,... lia,,. ..aEa :.:::? f :-:EE-: ':': :51 SF' A 2.-r fxzii E:iiI 2 it's the Eai giA ess of survival be 9 hat's in it for you? Grades. Face it, students as well as teachers were continually put to the test. To teachers, grades were syn- V. ff,-5 onyrnous with the career ladder, ? I competency tests, administra- 0 ' Grades meant images of term tors' evaluation and in-service. ft papers, pop tests, final exams, se- Pedagogues faced tougher ' mester averages, GPSS's, and en- graduation requirements, as trance requirements. House Bill 47 mandated no pass- Poll reveals Grade views 3 V 1 A , A , 4 0. .AQ-3 l.' hat motivates one to make good grades? It isn't .V , ,. Q' . .. ,- . rewards from Montana' Dad according toa large majority . yi -5 :jeg f.jjfY .'?'.'- - ' ' -' ' ' L offforonado studentsufho were surveyed. Jill 1 ' ' ' ' 0 5291- Sixty eight percent ofthe students said they are not W 7 c 'l-in. . rewarded for making the grades. But a minority 52 r - f -' pg '. percent said they indeed do receive grade incentives. A t . .1111 . How were those 52 percent rewarded? For most of them j.'g Good Grades to Paren 5- . 1 ' I it's money. Other rewards included such things as L- ,T Q A P' 50Q,0 'AJ' I glmrnsticlgs. parental praise, gills and getting to keep .- .- f 5.6-:fo 9, en' cars 'I-.fi 2 F gsllgofn But just what are good grades? for 21.6 percent of ,Q D 'J 15.1010 ':- those parents surveyed, a 'C' will not do: 28.1 percent 'ff' d ms. jf. V- said a .'D' is a had grade and 46.8 percent said to them J L Q Good grades to Stu e . an F is a bad grade. For 5.1 percent, a 'B' is bad. - -gf. A pd 57'50f0 But what' do sttzdents think? For bad grades, 3.1 A-5.2. B '4 21.9010 by-5. percent said their parents felt a 'B' was bad, 28.9 percent 1-I :.'.- C Fd 12'5o,0 QL. sandra C , .5 7. 7 percent said a 'D' and 51.5 percent said 'V , j '.--D: PJ A1010 --.1-' 811 ' '. 1 A 5 5 D 28 when students bring Home bad grades about half said Q' y.,., . H Resuns 5 -' they are not punished. The other half said they are either g - 'U -CHS P0 j, grounded or talked to. v 2 if-jg ,-,:j:'-.1.1:f ff ' Foreign Language!Grades 20 Pages By Angie Barnett and David Payne school were awarded the same type of diploma. It was the aca- demic achievement record, -- the transcript - however, that re- corded individual accomplish- ments, activities, courses com- pleted and class ranking. In addi- tion students must pass the exit level TEAMS test initially given in the junior year. Not passing the TEAMS meant no diploma. Requirements set 21 credits as minimum for LISD grads after 1987. But the more diligent stu- dent could choose an advanced transcript or the advanced-with- honors transcript. These channels set narrowed paths of prescribed courses including 4 English, .5 math, 5 science, 1 computer sci- ence and 2 foreign language cred- its. Advanced with honors meant at least Hve honors courses. Weighted honor courses often sent GPA 's soaring to 4.6 or above on a 4-point scale. Too, some colleges accepted only those who ranked in the up- per 25 or 10 percent of their graduating class. Rank in class was determined by grades in freshman through senior years. At Coronado, one specific result of the heightened emphasis on grades was seen in the numbers of study-hall takers. What used to be two larger study halls cram- ming about 500 students per peri- od turned into one study hall half filled each period. The old Room 110 - once a huge study hall - was converted in summer into new classrooms as Mustang classes bulged. Hot a single room was vacant during the first four periods of the day. And so, the emphasis on making the grade meant some who had never cracked a book were no longer breezing along. Studying, at least occasionally, was in it for them.

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M9 Physical education tones up muscles, while health develops personal care ust ajillion more laps around the track, and my teacher will know l'm either physically fit or passed out somewhere along the way. Those Governors Youth Physical Fitness Tests each spring were the grueling rigors most students thought were for the birds, but there was a method in the legislative mad- ness - youth of the United States are deemed among the least physically fit in the world. When PE teachers Patty Jones, Jim Carter and Melvin Houston mandated all those chin-ups, the mile and a half run, so many sit-ups and who knows what other muscle torture, the standards based on height, weight and age seemed easily attainable to a few, virtually impossible for most. The credit and half, three semesters' worth, in high school made PE a transcript necessity. Marching band, cheerleading or a doctor's excuse were the only alternatives. Another requirement for graduation was a full credit of health sometime during high school. lt was in these classes taught by Ron- nie Kirk and Teri Plavrkal that students met a trio of life-saving friends - Resusci-Annie, Chokin' Charlie and Smokin' Sam - who taught the basics of CPR, the Heimlich ma- neuver, and dangers of tobacco use. Timeliness entered the curriculum another V E -f: MM 1 W ,! PEfHealth 22 Wages By Tina Marie Salazarl way this year in particular when the scare of the late 1980's occupied each days' newspapers - AIDS. Now health students must not only learn about communicable diseases, first aid, burn treatment and medical misconceptions in the form of quackery - arming oneself with the facts for prevention of AIDS was almost a mat- ter of literal survival. Guest speakerJayAdkins exhibits to Mrs. Terri Plavrkal 's class the structure ofa human skull 's teeth. Nikki Robertson, below, uses her new techniques to save every- one's all-time-favorite dummy Re- susci Annie. I