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8 Recruitin Recruiting<br />

Teachers seek<br />

new talent for<br />

new school year<br />

BY KEILA GRANADOS AND JUAN<br />

OLIVARES<br />

MT STAFF WRITERS<br />

Teachers are seeking hardworking<br />

students in their recruiting trips to all<br />

the middle schools for next year’s<br />

incoming freshmen.<br />

Classes have had recruiting trips to<br />

all four LISD middle schools,<br />

Cigarroa, Christen, Memorial, and<br />

Lamar.<br />

“We look foward to hardworking,<br />

dedicated students interested in a<br />

well-rounded education in dance,”<br />

Dance department head and instructor<br />

Cheryl Kirkpatrick said.<br />

Teachers and students say the<br />

recruiting trips have been productive.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> recruiting trips have been successful.<br />

We’ve had a good turnout for<br />

students next year,” Kirkpatrick said.<br />

On the other hand, art teacher<br />

Jorge Vasquez would like more<br />

opportunities to speak to students.<br />

“I wish we had more time recruiting<br />

other than performances because it’s<br />

taking too long,” Vasquez said.<br />

TV/radio communications teacher<br />

Carrie Robaina said she has a positive<br />

attitude about the trips and the<br />

eighth graders that have signed up<br />

for her classes.<br />

“I’m looking for incoming students<br />

who have a positive attitude and love<br />

for technology,” she explained.<br />

“I feel we’ve had positive recruiting<br />

trips,” she said.<br />

Students also enjoyed their recruiting<br />

trips and felt it easy to get the<br />

eighth graders’ attention, who<br />

seemed to like what they were doing.<br />

“Just to play in front <strong>of</strong> people was<br />

fun. To make other people like it is<br />

hard, but I think <strong>this</strong> school is capable<br />

<strong>of</strong> doing that,” freshman piano<br />

student Ivan Valdez said.<br />

Another freshman, choir student<br />

Erika Sanchez, has a love for performing.<br />

“I was singing a solo and got the<br />

attention <strong>of</strong> kids because I knew most<br />

<strong>of</strong> them. I just love to perform,”<br />

Sanchez said.<br />

Both freshmen students attended<br />

Memorial Middle <strong>School</strong> as eighth<br />

graders.<br />

Dancers perform for Memorial Middle <strong>School</strong> students during a recruiting trip.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Magnet Tribune<br />

May 11, 2007<br />

MT photo by Juan Olivares<br />

MT photos: top left, center, Juan Olivares, right, Ofelia Gonzalez; bottom left, Juan Olivares, right, Keila Gradados<br />

Top: Fabiola Rivera, left and Asael Armendariz perform at Memorial. Right, Vivian Martinez plays a keyboard at Lamar<br />

Middle <strong>School</strong>.<br />

Bottom: left, Steel Drum Band members Jesus Saldaña and Manuel Castillo perform at Memorial. Right: String students<br />

perform a number at Lamar Middle <strong>School</strong>.

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