Towards the end of every school year, many students eagerly look forward to getting their yearbooks. At the same time, many individuals have no idea of what actually happens behind the scenes of the class, led by Mrs. Handling.

“Yearbook is a class where kids get twenty first century skills that will take them throughout their career in the future. So it’s a class where we design and create the yearbook for that school year. The yearbook itself is a museum of sorts,” Handling said.

It is critical for Handling to have students who are willing to work hard and give everything their best effort.

“It records everything that takes place in the school year so it’s really important that we have students who are present and want to be part of the school community. It’s a one size fits all, I think that it really incorporates all of the media arts,” Handling said.

Based on what senior Max Hernandez has observed while in the yearbook class and past one-on-one conversations with Handling, he believes that conditions to join the department should be stricter and students should be taught to take the class more seriously.

“Yes I think there should be stricter requirements, Mrs. Handling was mentioning to me that she wants to make it more strict on the rules to take yearbook as a class because a lot of people don’t take it seriously and they think that it’s just an easy A but it’s not. I think it’s going to be great regardless of the people who don’t do great or whatever the situation is. You still have people who are going to work hard and get it done,” Hernandez said.

Handling concludes that the hardest part of the yearbook class is that everyone will always have someone depending on them.

“I think the hardest part of the course is that other people rely on you. It is definitely a team effort, as much as there is independent work there is also a lot of collaboration that goes with it and so everyone has to put in their fair share,” Handling said.