Paseo High School - Paseon Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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6. 1. Westport Senior Center administrators seeing that the busses are on their way. 2. A cold day on the picket line. 3. Students crossing the line at the end of the day. 4. Pickets at Westport Senior Center. 5. Kan- sas City’s finest” watching. 6. At LAST it was over!!! Strike 19

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ON STRIKE Each individual had his or her own feelings about the strike and the effectiveness of it. Some students felt they were being influenced by parents. TV or striking teachers. Who can truly understand why the seven-week strike really took place? Some of the students were highly embarrassed to see their own school faculty being put in jail, using abusive language and showing actions that only the worst of high school students would display. Is this really a way of showing concern toward hundreds of students who wait for classes to resume and learning to begin again? different viewpoint. Contract negotiations, more money, teaching supplies and class size were all mentioned as reasons for the strike. Isn’t it possible to work out these problems without resorting to such a drastic measure as a strike where so many innocent people get hurt? Now teachers are being fired and quitting their jobs. What does this really mean? Not only did the seven-week old strike downgrade the Kan- sas City public school system but many students were denied the right to an education and were forced to stay at home or walk the streets. Many seniors who were eligible took mid-year graduation and, therefore, lost a semester of learning. What were the teachers really striking for or against? Did they get some kind of point across? Was there a victory for the striking teachers or did the non-striking teachers come out on top? There is so much confusion about the strike. In trying to answer the question of why a strike occurred, there are so many different opinions and reasons given that students have finally decided that each individual teacher had a During the Strike of 1974, 62.000 children were enrolled in the Kansas City public school system, but now the enrollment has dropped to about 43,000 children. Who is really losing? Since Paseo students had to attend school un- til July 18. most summer jobs were already taken. Many students will enroll in private schools for fear of another strike. The one issue that everyone seems to agree on is the fervent hope that there will never be another strike. 18 Strike

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HEAD SOUL-SEARCHERS 1. Gloria S. Sadler, Assistant to the Prin- cipal. 2. James C. Reneau, Principal. 3. Stephen Brown, Jr., Vice Principal. 4. Harold L. Liggins, Vice Principal. 5. Curtis C. Jones, Vice Principal. 20 Administration