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

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so many textbooks this year, I spent my life savings replacing them! -Shawn Sadeghieh Steve Imbilti Christa Renau Reed See Joanna Spagnolini Foreign Language 6 A

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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

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