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An interview with principal Arlan VandeWater YEARBOOK: What part of your job encourages you the look at this as a real highlight in cooperation, most? VANDEWATER: We have to be constantly trying to YEARBOOK: Do you think that since you have been encourage young people to achieve to the best of their here, the educational responsibilities of the high school ability. That's one of the main things that really have shifted from a position of giving a basic educa- makes me feel good when I see that young people are tion to one placing emphasis on vocations? taking advantage of their opportunities, making good VANDEWATER: Because of federal and state man- use of their time. dates, we're finding that it's necessary to provide for individualized services to meet the needs of every stu- YEARBOOK: Do you look at the student body as a dent whether he has a physical disability of some type miniature society? If so, do you treat it as such? or a learning disability. It is the responsibility of the VANDEWATER: Yes, I do look at the student body as public schools to provide services to those people. If being a small community all within one building so- there is any one trend that I have seen in the past to-speak and I think that realizing that there are that years, it's the concept that the public schools have to many different types of people all working together, it provide more individualized programs for the students, definately takes co-operation on everyone's part to make things operate. I think that in a setting like this YEARBOOK: What do you specifically see as changes with over nine-hundred people we have to look at it as In the curriculum or education objectives at Webb In a miniature society and we have to do everything pos- the future? sible to govern in a democratic manner. VANDEWATER: In the future, I believe that we're go- ing to have more emphasis placed upon career educa- YEARBOOK: What have been the highlights of this tion assisting students earlier in their educational ex- school year? periences in making intelligent career choices and VANDEWATER: Looking at programs, a lot of work has planning their educational programs in that direction. I gone into the career education center where we are think that there will be more individualized programs working with a five school project. I think that at the and we're going to need more individual programs for beginning, three years ago, I was skeptical that some- the gifted students. I think that the public is demand- thing like this would ever become a reality. After a lot Ing that high school graduates be competant in read- of work by many people, this project looks like It's go- ing, writing, and fundamental math. For this reason, I ing to go. When I look at the possibilities of a program think that along with a diploma the future high school like this and at the fact that we could get five school graduate will also receive a document which will cer- districts to agree on a program like this, and that we tify his or her competency in one field or another, could get state funding to give this concept a try, I
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