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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>.