Pinellas Park High School - Occurrences Yearbook (Largo, FL)

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?qg,.1tr is BEING SICK WAS NO EXCUSE: Students discovered that the sniffles or flu had to be followed by a written note from a parent in order for the absence to be excused and work to be made up. Joy Bruner turned in her note, which Dean Koutney scrutinized and signed. JUNIORS CUT RED TAPE by taking the re- quired state assessment test In October. Passing the test was mandatory for high school promotion. 'EYES xox, LENDING A HAND to the community even Involved red tape. Vital statistics such as age, blood pressure, history of diseases, and blood type had to be known before students could give blood. Bill Powell was able to donate blood during the bionnual NHS blood drlve. RED TAPE f 39

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38 X RED TAPE PAY IT OR LOSE IT was the message. Students either purchased a S5113 park- ing decal or watched their car be tow- ed away. The admlnlstratlon dld warn before tow day arrived by placing notices on each car. Nevertheless, a few neglected to purchase the decals and suffered the consequences. Red Tape r ou can't get something for nothing' This familiar cliche describes the problems students faced when it came to cutting through the school's policy, better known as red tape. For every right, privilege, or responsibility offered to a student, there was an attached string. If students wanted to be ab- sent from class for a field trip or student activity, a request-to- be-absent form had to be sign- ed by each of the students' teachers. The accomplishment of this task was often difficult, especially if a student was behind or working below capacity in a class. Posters needing to be hung in the concourse to announce dances or welcome our new principal, required assistant principal's Mr. Glenn I3ailey's signature in the corner of each banner before it was permitted to be put up. This prevented the presence of misspelled words or derogatory com- ments on a poster. In addition to these red tape stipulations, students found themselves: suspended if a faculty or security member caught them attempting to leave campus, faced with a five percent decrease in their grade if three absences were discovered to be unexcused, and left without transportation as they watched a tow truck haul away their car, which was, by the way, bearing no 55.00 parking decal. Seniors, looking forward to the day when PPHS red .tape would bind them no longer, were restrained until they had most assuredly successfully completed the state assesment test and collected all their man- datory Twenty-TWO credits. After the academic red tape kan, b ,ce I ,... , ..... , .,.. ,.,,.... 22-1-.4 - A . . K i, CHECKING THE WRITING ON THE WALL. Mr. Glenn Bailey looked at and signed all posters that were hung in the concourse. had seemingly been cut, the obligation of getting measured for caps and gowns, ordering graduation announcements, and paying for various other graduation expenses presented itself. Much to their dismay, the burden of filling out college applications and applying for scholarships revealed to seniors that one is never free from red tape. Un- fortunately, it gets worse. These situations conveyed the difficulties students were confronted with while trying to achieve everyday tasks that red tape had made more troublesome. The statement 'You can't get something for nothing' certain- ly rang true at PPHS and sometimes that's what students settled for - nothing. NOTHING WAS EXEMPT: even grai tion was bound by the ever pre red tape. Like every other se Robert Hope was measured b Balfour representative for his cap gown.

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40 I LINES One After The ther tudentsjommed the holls ond molls stonding in long, endless lines. Describing the crowded hollwoys sounded like o Wheot Thin Crocker com- merciol, One ofter the other. Lunch lines were os slow os molosses. Woiting with growling stomoches, students indulged in idle gossip with their friends. The pushing, shoving, ond cutting in line never seem- ed to ceose while everyone wonted to hurry to be woited on. The lines or lock of lines oround the concession oreo creoted 0 pottern similor to thot of o freewoy during rush hour. Woiting to buy o beot rib- bon, gome ticket, student pic- ture pocket, school supplies, or even o yeorbook, students stood in line in front of the bookstore for on endless 15 when it got students in trouble. Restless students hod to woit in line with o reterrol in their hond to tolk to their deon. The deons' office wos o congestion of dif- ferent Iines, one to look in the 'Lost ond Found' for cm poir of tennis shoes, onother to get o Iote poss, ond yet onother to turn in o note to excuse cz re- cent obsence. To get out of closs for five or ten minutes, students glodly sot down in the holls for tornodo drills ond morched single-file out to the porking lot for mon- thly fire drills. Lines or the teochers' desks were sometimes port of o doily schedule. Some teochers moy hove orronged them different- ly but nevertheless rows of desks ore rows of desks. Eventuolly, being first in line ROLL CALL wos even done in o lit: formot during most gym closses. Th students in Cooch Bill Burrow's c were ossigned o number on wl lj stond for ortendonce. T minutes. wos the consolotion to oll these Hoving fun never poid off deloys. --32:6-'fm-Q-i Nf--k--' 1 'TT 'Q 2' SE