Westlake High School - El Paisano Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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'1. JE CONFINEMENT. Utilizinghis time constructively, senior Don Carter works on a stretch m 155 Un-School Suspensiom. When in 135, students must complete assignments prepared for them bV' teachers SQUEAKY CLEAN. Inside and out, windows get a thorough cleanv ing compliments of senior Bryan Marv berry who substitutes work during the week that seniors were out rather than time in 138 or Saturday D'hall. PAPER CHASE. Junior Paula Shaffer works after school in a history classroom tidying under the teacher's desk. Maintenance workers got much needed endofr school help from rule offenders. 143 DrHall

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744911 of 7m a Boy, A Val Nu. a WORK DUTY. To make up time owed for Dahall, senior Phil Mason and junior Kevin Gallagher assist in cleaning out lockers at the end of school. Work details helped with summer preparations ranging from books to general cleaning. '-- - Saturday moming-a time to sleep late, eat a leisurely breakfast and head outside with a basketball and some friends or to the mall for a shopping spree. Maybe so for most students, but for those who had parked illegally, been tardy to class or had committed some equally horrendous crime, Saturday morning was spent in the German or French classroom doing time in de' tention hall. ul had D'hall back when it was an hour after school. . .everyone talked and chewed gum, and you just wasted an hour, senior Lynn Hollingsworth saidt uThen I got it last year, and it was a whole different deal. As punishment for petty mis' demeanors, students had to arrive at school by 8:00 am. Saturday morning and sit through anywhere from three hours for tardies to an accumulation of nine hours for class cuts. Talking, eating and sleeping were forbidden, and later in the school year, magazines and newspapers were banned and only homework allowed in the Dvhall room. uThis school is really strict-l'm just getting used to itf'junlor Megan New; meyer said. HIt gets so boring: this one guy was staring at my shoes for the last 20 minutes.H Receiving Dahall did give students a Are You Really In Troubl t1 REALLY DIDNtT MIND HELPING. YOU CANT BELIEVE THE MESSES SOME PEOPLE MAKE? M chance to do homework or contema plate on life, but most said that the disadvantages outweighed any benefits. uYou get cramps in your back and your legs because the desks are so un' comfortable, freshman Brett Arabie said. HYou canlt put your head down on the desks because theylre too small. A large number of people never had D'hall, but not necessarily because they were saints. HI do things that could get me D hall, but I just havenlt gotten caught, sophomore Rene Gillean said. liGet' ting D'hall wouldn't make me stop but it would make me think twice. Some offenders agreed that Dvhall was a leSSathan-effective method of punishment. Hl do mind ifl get nine hours, but three hours doesn't really help? sophomore Denese Thompson said. You just wait until you do all your hours, then go back and do the same thing again. But for those who wanted to spend their Saturday mornings in other ways, the disciplinarians made their point with the enforcement of a new, revised detention hall. HIt helps keep me out of trouble. Brett said. uOnce you get it you don't want to do it again. 142 Student Life

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7Ae8alaf7m Youlll Never Get Out llMY PARENTS MAY STOP ME 9 A aln FROM SEEING MY FRIENDS, BUT MY DOGS ARE ALWAYS WITH ME fggggfiggen DOING TIME 3 e , lemi l BEST FRIENDS. For company and consolation, junior Staci Biggar plays with her puppyedoggies dur- ing her grounded time at home. Go home. Do not pass Willies. Do not collect your allowance. Day after day and weekend after weekend, someone suffered. Someone was grounded. HWhen I am grounded Pm usually sitting at home watching the rev runs, freshman Kirk Holladay said. Although watching television brought temporary relief from the boredom of being grounded, sometimes even that didnlt help. lll sat at home and pouted because all of my friends were going out, junior Bryan Kuykendall said. For others, however, being grounded was not that big of a pro blem. I went out with my parents to movies and dinner and did family fun things together, senior Kelly Medley said. Older brothers and sisters also helped when students were technically confined to the house. uI have an older sister who would take me out when I was grounded without mom knowing it, freshman Angela Middleton said. With the large number of parents who used it, being grounded was an effective form of punishment and most students took it seriously, if only because if they disobeyed they faced an extension of their original sentence. Sometimes, though, boredom in' spired radical measures. ul would sneak out to be with my friendsf' sophomore Tracy Boyer said. HAfter coming home every day after school for weeks, it got too boring and I got desperate. 144 Student life