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

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lege credit for taking four classes and working two classes while getting six credits per year, Mr. Don Linley said. Three different voca- tional classes afforded working students a variety of choices: VOE in which students work in an office- related fields; ICT in which students work in various kinds of trade, building and dental and doctor assistance jobs; and DE in which students work in retail field or mar- keting sales. I love being in the work program because it enables me to search out an occupation by trying different fields of jobs, junior Denise Miller said. Work related pro- grams helped some stu- dents because they got to break the monotony of school exhibiting produc- tivity on the job. The students learn the need for further edu- cation by being in voca- tional programs and work- ing with someone 40 years old with only a high school education, VOE teacher Mary Lee Moeller said. MONEY DO YOU EARN IN THE WORK PROGRAM? Average $42 Smoothie For $1.64, junior Todd Connor sells student patrons a small serving with any topping while working at Yummy Yogurt. The store employed many high school as well as junior high students. Big CHixNGE As she makes change for a customer, junior Kristi Crow- son earns money working at Thundercloud Subs. Student employees learned the re- sponsibility of being prompt and efficient Employees gain experience as they learn all importantly. Just who ' s the boss? You burned the food and got screamed at by a customer, but worst of all, here comes the boss. I don ' t think anyone cares what kind of boss they have just as long as they get paid. However, I try to stay away from my boss, senior Jason Vallier said. Avoidance of the boss proved not always possi- ble, but workers had to be nice even if it killed them. It really bothers me that I have to be so nice around my boss because he ' s so difficult. But I know he keeps me from having to go to school, junior Casey Collins said. Since students could get out of school by taking VOE, DE or ICT, student employees learned peo- ple skills to handle bosses. My boss is pretty cool. She always talks to me and asks me about personal stuff, senior Linda Jackson said. To get along with the boss and customers, em- ployees learned and re- learned that both were always right especially if the boss was DAD. I like the way my boss acts. I mean con- sidering he ' s my dad. I ' ve got a lot of freedom, se- nior Sean Hicks said. Despite the relation- ships developed on the job, one primary motiva- tion kept students punch- ing the time card in and out: THE PAYCHECK. BAGGY Safeway grocery store clerk sophomore Glen Cox, bags groceries before taking them out to the customer ' s car. Rain or shine, clerks walked in and out of doors with heavy bags . Edited by Tracy Knox Wpili ONE FOR THE MONEY l ' :

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Charge IT On the job at Scar- brough ' s in Barton Creek Mall, senior An- drea White fills out a sales slip for a cus- tomer. Students taking half-days at school were able to work the rest of the day, earning more money. On One I just agree to everything they say. They like that senior Holley Kutnin I try and be as honest as possible and just hope that the third degree will be over soon senior Lynda Jackson Work ' outs ' Skilled students find the way to earn, learn... get out by noon Quit school early! To escape the boundaries of school, student em- ployees opted for work programs in which they earned cash as well as credit. I like being in the work program because I get out early plus I get an early shift at work, junior Andy Ries- ter said. Although getting out of school early roused the interests of many freshmen and sophomores, only ju- niors and seniors could exercise the work-study option. To be able to participate in the work program, the person must be a junior or a senior, at least 16 and have a desire to work 15-20 hours per week, Distributive Education (DE) teacher Mr. Don Linley said. While many six-period-a-day stu- dents envied the out-at-nooners, employees reported to work as quickly as 15 minutes after their last class while others pulled the late night shift. For the cash, credit and the work experience high school upperclass- men chose from DE, Vocational Of- fice Education or Industrial Coopera- tive Training as an elective. I took the work program to earn money, gain experience and espe- cially to get out of school early! se- nior Alicia Krumm said. With nearly 100 high school stu- dents in the work program, the course offered a loop hole out of school for many who made cash and credit—all at the same time. Clean sprays As a bus boy at County Line on the Hill, senior Scott Newbcrger cleans dishes, trays and tables. Depending on money from the tip pool for income, bus boys earned anywhere from $2.10 an hour. HANDY MAN Helping out a customer at Westlake Hardware, senior Staush Schuster selects planting utensils. Local businesses afforded work program students as well as those who worked part-time jobs, the opportunity to learn the ropes of the labor force. »T1 Extra! voE, DE, icr offer cash, credit No money? No car? No weekend movies? The solution— get a job. Stu- dents who chose the al- ternative of the VOE, ICT and DE work programs found out just how handy a little extra spending money or saving money could be. It is beneficial in that students can get full col- How MUCH EACH WEEK Least Amount $30 Take a Number ACADEMICS

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Things Your Parents Say to Save For a College O Holiday Gifts O Spring Break OGas O Weekend Q Ferarri Check it out TGIF, so sophomore Jimmy Saxton with- draws funds from his checking account for weekend cash. Friday afternoons presented banks with rush hour business as students hurried for pocket change. What ARE THE MOST VALUABLE SKILLS YOU HAVE LEARNED IN ECONOMICS? Checkbook Balancing Investing MONEY Completing Tax Forms Economic endeavors Student analysts monitor trading Monopoly money in hand, economics seniors engaged in an entre- preneurial endeavor that hopefully expanded their knowledge of the stressful world of business in- vestment. For three weeks, seniors watched and charted stocks, avoiding pitfalls and falling values. Fate will often spare an undoomed man in the stock market if his courage and ability to pick stocks are good, se- nior Ricky Jones said. Though many seniors made a marginal profit with a serious attitude, some followed the more humorous concept of the ...it was better to purchase stocks from one company rather than many small companies senior Nisheeth Parekh project and tried losing money. I didn ' t have too many people trying to lose money; most did very well. Some earned as much as $800, economics teacher Julie Oliver said. Rebecca Parks al- lotted her class $200,000 in fake funds for purchasing Oops Counselors ' offices beseiged by unhappy students as conflicts arise from walk-through process Every semester, hundreds of students became victims of the re- vised scheduling process. Closed courses and scheduling conflicts, otherwise known as aca- demic accidents, brought students crying to counselors ' and teachers for help. I got three classes that I had no earthly intention of taking, so I went to the counselor ' s office to get rid of them, senior Ricky Jones said. Although seniors faced some problems of scheduling due in part to required senior courses, under- classmen fell most often as the un- fortunate victims of schedule mis- haps. I went in during registration thinking that everything was fine, but when I got my schedule back I dis- covered that I had none of the class- es or teachers that I wanted, sophomore Olivier Lapuente said. As students collectively com- plained of bad schedules, adminis- trators viewed academic accidents as necessary evils. In order for the majority of the schedules to work out, a minority of students must make a sacrifice with their schedules, assistant principal Lynne Rocglin said. After a bothersome visit to the counselors ' office, previously unhap- py students found classes that met their needs, if not their wants, and made themselves happy with the fi- nal results. Our ' rush season ' starts at the beginning of each semester. Most of the time we are so behind that it takes us weeks to catch up with all of the schedule changes, senior coun- selor Jonathan Ratcliff said. Although placement in a class not signed up for usually constitut- ed a legitimate excuse for a schedule change, often enough there re- mained countless other legitimate reasons . I got all of the classes that I wanted except for the lunch period that I wanted, sophomore Brian Stecg said. Unfortunate victims of circum- stance, having negotiated with members of the administration to the point of humble begging, had now exhausted all possibilities of finding a way out of unwanted cours- es. Many accepted the challenge of survival of the fittest, but the others realized they didn ' t have a choice. Take a Number ACADEMICS