Pittsburg High School - Pirate Yearbook (Pittsburg, CA)

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From parties to SAT tests . . . From teenage responsibilities to teenage deaths . . . This has become . . . Ivi e As We Know t' O The life of a teenager is not ,ll fun and games, and being me in the 80's is equivalent o living in a pressure cooker. Besides juggling respon- ibilities as a family member, eens are pressured into be- ng an image ofthe family tame. Some are restricted rom having a 1 fun time inless accompanied by a zhaperon, or aren't allowed o go out at all, except for .chool or family related events. Some parents see eenagers going out fvhenever they want as en- :ouraging irresponsibility. -Iowever, many trust their :hildren to be responsible for .heir own behavior., When Jarent and child collide 'read-on, the most common :opic of argument are However, their children generally respond with hostility to what seems to be strict discipline. Some parent's decisions are based on old traditions, and teens today find it hard to handle old beliefs in a new world. Nevertheless, parents en- force their beliefs to make to- day's teens responsible to themselves and to society. For many teens, school becomes a second home. The pressure to make the grade so one could be able to attend college is unbearably high. But, all of this .is clone for a purpose. Pete Cardinale, senior, spends hours on his homework because, I want to get good grades, for per- sonal ambition, and it looks with being a teen gives them a bad name. The pressure to be recognized as a responsi- ble young adult, rather than a teenage party bum, has many setting goals and ambitions to achieve this recognition. .Kristen Burks, senior, plans to attend college and major in Pre-Med, specializing in pediatrics. In preparation for this, she has taken nursing courses offered through the Adult Education Center, and plans to become a hospital taking Honors classes. g Apart from those. by family, school, and peers, pressures society determines the fate of today's teens. The big- gest fear today is AIDS. Most teenagers today are misin- this deadly disease. This ig- norance may cause teenagers to be prime targets for this disease, and often heard jokes about AIDS makes understanding it more dif- ficult. However, efforts to educate adults, teens, and in some cases, school children about AIDS, drugs, or alcohol have been attempted with much success. As Tami Goidsmith, senior, states, I think that it's good that they're trying to educate the public. Either if we're pressurized into doing what our parents, peers, or society wants us to do, or if we're steamed by hours of homework, it is all part of being a teenager in the eighties, and it is Life As We Know lt. 'iousehold chores and esponsibilities, followed by :urfews and school work. vlost of parents' actions are :tue to fear for their children's Hves in today's society. good on my transcript. I feel I must do it to better myself. The battles with peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, teenage pregnancies, and other problems synonymous formed or do not understand - Dina Duran As teens,. we band tightly doza, Myrna Mercado, Danee togetherywith special friends-was Cattolico, Michele Kingsley and I Shonn Thompson, Todd Men- AlvinCarrillodisplay. f Life As we know in --

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We, as all teens do, have our ups and downs, and Chad Briscoe shows us Becky Nguyen and Karen Wells discuss a Calculus problem in Mr. Sullenberger's class. Them, along with many of Sullenberger's students Liberty Rasmussen finishes her art project. For students who wished to , .,..nisli-1'--as !L Q..- Q we- some of our too-frequent downs made school a second home by coming in for help at 7 a.m. and sometimes as early as 6:30 a.m. graduate, a year of fine arts or a foreign language was mandatory. 'IK' ' ff' t3 1t ' l A wsseenmqsg .- .Vu Theme --

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As Pete the Pirate, Mrs. loanie Orlando was then and is now a true Pirate at heart. From the time she was born,1oanie always had a smile on her face She often brought up the day of many people just by her company loanie shows her best during Hallo- ween as a hula girl at the age of 9. Soon she would come back from the Islands and become a proud Pitts- burg native onthe mainland.