Mukwonago High School - Arrow Yearbook (Mukwonago, WI)

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PEOPLE Most people think of a school as being made up of teachers and students, and no one else. In fact, the students will tell you there are more than enough teachers, and the teachers will tell you that if they see another student, they'll scream. But, it takes more than teachers and students to make up a school. Aside from the nine hundred and thirty-eight students and sixty-eight teachers, there are nine custodians, seven kitchen workers, seven secretarial and clerical workers, five re- source aides, one speech clinician, one instructional materials technician, seven dwarfs, three stooges, and a partridge in a pear tree, and the writer'll just bet you knew that last one was coming, didn't you? Even this list doesn't cover everyone. There's also the School Board and the Superintendent, who have the task of running this school district. This is tough job, and sometimes it can get to a person. Every now and then a board member needs a small vacation, and the friendly travel agents in white suits come to transport him via net to some restful retreat. With all these people an occasional flare-up of tempers can be expected. This friction seldom leads to anything more seri- ous than a loud argument, or a few light blows, or a periodic homicide, or one or two mass riots. People remain the backbone of the school system, despite such innovations as computers. A computer can never com- pletely replace a human being, just ask any student who's had his schedule mixed up by the computer. It's rather embarrass- ing to have a machine assign you pre-algebra when you're about to start trigonometry. It's sort of like the computer is thumbing its electronic nose at you. Fortunately, these mechanical Frankensteins are not given complete control over our merry little educational institute. That control remains in the hands of people, for better or worse. At least when a person fouls up, he can react to your reaction . . . it's awfully hard to exchange opinions with a machine.