Sammamish High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Bellevue, WA)

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'6Yet l just Plain Don't Have the Time to Give Her All the Help I Should. lt's Criminal. Mrs. Radke: I have a little girl who has a great deal of difficulty with reading and con- sequently, with most of history. Yet she tries and she comes to me for extra help and I would love so much to have a period a day because here is a student who is willing to make the effort. She'll go out of her way to come for help, yet I just plain don't have the time to give her all the help I should. It's criminal. f'We'll have it as soon as the public is willingf, Interviewer: Is the problem a lack of teachers? Mrs. Radke: I think it is a problem as far as our basic philosophy is concerned. I am sure that the basic personnel is there. But the reason there aren't more positions available is that the school districts are dependent on the public for money. As soon as the public decides that it is willing to pay for this type of education, we'll have a better chance of having it. Interviewer: Comment on the student who works for grades, because of the so-called pressures put on him. Are these pressures real? Mr. Connaway: The pressures are real. We put them on the kids by giving report cards. And if a kid has a bent towards a good university, they're putting on limitations too: a minimum 2.5 to go here, a minimum 600 on the college board verbal to go there, a rank in the upper upper upper of your class to go someplace else. Should we remove these pressures? Yes. How? Get rid of all the people who establish the limitations. I can't say that the University of Washington ought to abolish any kind of standards. But on the other hand I think that a guidance counselor here at Sammamish could get any graduat- ing senior into some college across the land. Sometimes, I kind of shudder at that, but it's true. I've been a guidance counselor long enough to know that anybody can go as long as they have the money first and the brains second. Maybe it's 4th or 5th on the brains. Interviewer: Is there an emphasis on a certain area of study at Sammamish? Mr. Connaway: To my knowledge, there isn't. I've heard these little gripes here and there about the fact that it exists, but I don't have the time to get involved in depart- ment griping. Adults are much more difficult to argue with than kids, and I just argue with kids. MI can do anything I want. Interviewer: Do you get much cooperation from the administration at Sammamish? Mr. Connaway: That's one of the reasons I'm still at Sammamish, because I can do anything I want and a few times I've done a couple of things that have gotten us in trouble. With that production last year and the John Birch Society, and the film the Parable, this year, we got into a bit of dutch. It's really interesting to see how far behind us Mr. Torgerson and Mr. Knoell and Dr. Brubacher really are.

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