David Crockett High School - Texan Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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CINON Left: Taking on the responsibility ofajob and school, junior Vicky Garcia works at Safeway for some extra money. Below: Party fliers are common at Crockett, and sophomore Lisa Perry and Amy Cortes look at a flier for a Christmas party coming up soon. ' ' ' 1 Q--Q.- 1' 'Q Above: Many students go off campus for lunch, and Sonic is a popular place to go. Seniors Debbie Treece and Bryan Raye order lunch at Sonic during their lunch period. Left: Hall Monitor Shirley Authenreith reports any mischievious activity with her walky-talky, while Crockett students race away after school. Tearing Away!5

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Te ' A The jagged edge between Crockett and Austin 9 Y Crockett is a place where 2,900 South Austin kids, spend seven hours a day, five days a week. Y0u'd think it was a full-time job. When the final bell rings, these students go off into the world where the rules of school are non-existant. They have full per- sonal and social lives beyond the Crockett campus, that take them to all parts of Austin. 'fThere is more to life than school, said junior Amy Smith. The truth has never been spoken so clearly. There are Crockett students that maintain jobs as well as the homework they get from their teachers at school. You have to make a trade off between a job and school work. If I don't work Illl make A's, but if I do I'll settle for B's, said senior Michael Hafner. Other students work at retail stores. All these students have responsibilities beyond the walls of Crockett. Going off campus for lunch is a way to get away from the boun- daries of Crockett for a little while. Not that eating at Crockett is that bad, but it just feels good to have some freedom during the day. Sophomore Pat Skarren said, 'KI go off campus for lunch to get away from school for a while, it makes you feel independent. Having a car is even better than walking to place to eat, because you have about 10 times as many places to choose from to go and eat. Parties are one of Crockett seems to be one every Friday and Saturday night. If there is not one planned, Crockett students are creative enough to find something to do. They either go to Mt. Bon- nell or consider Sixth Street. 'KWe go to parties so we donlt have to stay home, and do our homework. But we mainly like to have fun, said junior Bonnie Crep. Party fliers are given out at school to let everybody know where the par- ties are. When the weekends come, Crockett people fly to these parties without a trace of school on their minds. This year hall monitors and ad- ministrators patrol the school with walkie-talkies,talking to each other with a home base in the office. They are trying to catch people in the act of doing something wrong. It's like a little police force keeping an eye on their community. It intimidates us, because it makes us feel like we're in a prisonf' said junior Jackie Garza. Crockett has the largest cam- pus in Austin, and only two monitors to patrol the whole thing, so a more effective system was needed to watch over the students. The communication between students has always been faster than between the' hall monitors, and these walkie- talkies put us one step closer to this grapevinef, said Associate Principal Frances Bush. Even though school isn't as pleasant as some of us wish it students favorite things to go to on the weekends, there a l w a y s al 4!Tearmg Away were, it only lasts seven hours. When we are at school, the teachers work us, test us, and grade us to death, and when we leave, we scatter as fast as we possibly can. Testing is a familar sight at Crockett and these students are taking the PS A T a test that prepares the ground for the Scholastic Aptitude Test fthe S.A Tj

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