Springdale High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Springdale, AR)

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Mind Expansion The outstanding curriculum feature this year centered on the opportunity for students to ' choose courses satisfying their own interests while fulfilling graduation requirements. Half semester courses, specialized topics of study and the reorganization of entire departments confused, frustrated and pleased, as reform allowed a new and broader education. Stuff Thirteen hundred teenagers to keep track of, cook for and clean up after would bean impossible nightmare for most adults, but for the secretaries, ianitors and . cooks at SHS, it's adaily challenge. Rising food costs, the energy shortage and a surprising increase in enrollment, were met with revised policies, increased lunch costs and reorganized offices. ' T The Systeml11

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The System Patterns to follow, for order and tradition. The power to guide, to control, coupled with ' responsibilities. Reaching for unity, pacifying those under i limitations with tokens of , representation. Education occasionally moving beyond the standards of duplicate textbooks, ' occasionally escaping propriety's correctness. Schedules to meet, interruptions to answer, obligations to satisfy. A way of doing things. A Eyes selecting thoughts from your eyes, cropping any edges that inhibit stacking them neatly. Minimizing private goals-invading ideas-rearranging for conformity-reaching for constructive fulfillment. Knowledge absorbed through the movements of others: the basis of life brought into focus through clear words and confused acceptance. Choosing worn dreams discarded by someone making the rules. Clutching the shirt of the one a pace ahead, leading the one behind. Feeling the ache of following someoneelseg knowing. your 'okay' is the lastof many, barely audible in the din of answers. Brushing shoulders in crowds gently, hoping to conceal the uniformity. Q A mirror reflecting I smoothly-blandly-THE SYSTEM reflecting you. 10lT he System l Chain of Command ln any effort involving people, success depends on the . organization of those in charge. fe At SHS, the policies move through six levels before ' reaching the student. At each s ' -level there is repeated '. iw E Sw' interpretation and choice, until Ry, XX .XX finally, the decisions become the X daily rules the students live by.

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Deputy Superintendent Joe Roberts Education reflects the complexity of todciy's world Gas rationing for school buses, extended vacations, course revisions, state supplied textbooks, questions of student rights-these and many more issues find their way to the desk of Superintendent Thurman Smith. The overall responsibility for the school system belongs to him. Working with fellow administrators, faculty members, and the school board, he makes policies that affect the entire student body. His most time consuming and important role is public relations. Other duties involve screening employees, answering correspondence, and trying to solve system wide difficulties. Working with Mr. Smith are Deputy Superintendent Joe Roberts and Assistant Superintendent Norman Crowder. They supervise adult education, plan individual school schedules, maintain in-service education and keep an inventory of all school equipment. Theirduties also cover federal programs providing for low income students and summer school programs for migrants. 12lT he System nun.. ....: '..z:m:..M-....... -..M-W. .ttsr - lm, ,-, I an X .Z Superintendent Assistant Superintendent Thurman Smith Norman Crowder A ,f - , ,- f ,, Tfziga Cn --ni r U T'zi,.j -., ,,.. , 2 N ,vw .,. A ,dex x l,.. ,A if f ' ' 'X .gipilv ,qu -X 0 l '- 3 -atq,1n-aan' ,,f9' , KZ, 1 J , .X f. .. S, 4- . ., -fn' ap '6 f1r-it' N, -!w2g,l'-'ij H ,217