Dana Hills High School - Mast Yearbook (Dana Point, CA)

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some pushups. .p ja Cmelak impson Pcpers Vindictive Teachers Strike Back Well, this morning I was kidn apped by an exotic cult who took me to LAX to sell flowers. Then a mob of tourists from Japan surrounded me and kept taking my picture. They liked me so much that they made me go to Disneyland with them. On the way to Anaheim, the bus was hijacked by a terrorist who forced us to go to Zimbabwe ' s embassy to protest their insistence on selling pigs to Upper Volta. But the bus got a flat, and I was able to escape. Luckily, Goofy drove by in his jalopy and gave me a lift back to school. I ' m sorry, but I left my homework in Goofy ' s car. This, and numerous other outrageous but creative excuses, was the work of a student who had the audacity to be late to Mr. Btftera ' s class. Two-page creative excuse essays, a technique also employed by Mr. Morgan, are only one of several torturous punishments devised by vindictive teachers. Teachers with cruel penalties included Mr. Imbilli, whose treatment of tardy students led to some pulled muscles of those who had to do push-ups. Many teachers forced kids to pick up trash or sit in the corner. If you ate in certain classes, you could expect to share your food with your hungry teacher. Another favorite for all teachers was to force whoever was chewing gum to scrape old gum off the bottom of desks during lunch. Students who failed to listen to the bulletin during Ms. Evans ' second period class could expect to be shot by her high-powered water gun (confiscated from Fred Forbes). O So, the next time you think of ditching class, chewing gum or not turning in your homework, you might want to think twice. 1. Getting caught for chc ' ' ing gutn is a serious offense, and the punishment is disgusting, as Pat Borkhcim discovers. 2. Bein absent from P.E. is punishable by r 3. Having to sit in the corner may be an archaic discipline, but as Matt Glenn shows, it is siill us«4- 4. Mr. Imbilli is notorious for his practice tardy students like Bill Haounon to do ' Duncan McGraw and Kfa

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Hassels Haunt Entire School Body If students thought school was a hassle at times, they should consider the problems faced by the staff. Consider scheduling, for example: each student had one schedule to deal with, whereas Mr. Cairns and the guidance technicians faced hundreds of frustrated students who lined up in the foyer for days at the beginning of each semester to change their schedules for reasons varying from This class is too hard! to That teacher hates me! A colossal headache arose mid-year when a large fraction of the senior class was informed that, despite receiving a clean credit check over the summer, they were in fact short 5 units of physical science or lacked health credit and would not graduate. This sent many students, such as Brett Howe and Kelli Lewis, scurrying to Adult Ed. at night to fulfill the requirements. Another innovation that caused grief for guidance technicians and pushed the yearbook staff to the brink of mass suicide was reclassification. In September any student who was short units was reclassified (demoted) a grade. If he made up those units during the school year, he was again reclassified (promoted) back to his proper year, creating endless paper work for the staff. (If you have trouble finding your portrait in this yearbook, check all the grade levels that you inhabited this year.) For students and teachers make-up tests are the number one headache. However, this year the P.T.S.O. eased the teachers ' burden by giving make-up tests during seventh period in room 706 on Tuesdays; the teaching staff was, in Ms. Evans ' s words, eternally grateful. The thirty-five minute lunch was the bane of teachers and students alike: teachers handed out tardies, and students paid the consequences as fifth period struggled to get under way on time. Red tape, human error, computer error: whatever the cause, hassles were an inevitable part of this school year. But then, that ' s what it ' s like in the rest of life too, so chalk it up to good training. I. The junior class confronts the realization that another year of school is about to start. 2. Plagued by a tall stack of schedules. Ms. Zabel plunges into the chaos of registration for second semester. 3. At the make-up test center, Pat Martin concentrares on a vocabulary quiz with his eyes closed: a habit teachers prefer to wandering eyes. t VC ' J.G A 66 Learning