The Wolfpacket student newspaper at Claremont High School recently ran this cartoon in its Friday, May 1 issue. It seems the paper has a lot of freedom to make commentary on the powers that be within the school and District.
The image depicts Superintendent David Cash standing on top of a pile of money. Cash recently announced he will be leaving the district for a new job as Superintendent of the Clovis Unified School District. He started the job in Claremont less than 3 years ago.
The puppet in the cartoon is CHS Principal Brett O'Conner, who "is now free to be the good leader that we know he can be rather than just doing everything Dr. Cash tells him," according to Liliana Caughman, the senior at CHS who drew the cartoon.
Below are students asking what will happen to some great initiatives Cash started while he was here. "We don't know what will happen to them. Some people think Dr. Cash just used Claremont as a stepping stone in his career," Liliana said.
CHS administration and the school paper have butted heads in the past. The former adviser to the paper, Becca Feeny, was stripped of her duties with the paper following clashes with then Principal Carrie Allen.
Liliana said there hasn't been any backlash from the administration to her cartoon and actually some faculty have quietly congratulated the paper for publishing it.
Liliana plans to attend Santa Barbara City College next year to study politics and sociology and wants to continue drawing cartoons for her college paper. "When u draw a cartoon, it's something that everyone can understand," she said. "You get a serious point across in a funny and satirical way and I like that."
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