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

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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

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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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lld nan r KITCHEN AIDE. Confined to the kitchen, sophomore Stacy Strik- land washes the dinner diShes for hrmxnie points. 145 You're Grounded RERUNS. Unable togo 0ut,junr ior Julie Roach settles for watching uLove Boaf' reruns and talking on the phone. BORED STIFF. Locked in his room, freshman Randy LaGrange thinks of all the things he could be do ing if he hadn't been doing what he was doing that resulted in his confinement.