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<\/a>After the sudden retirement of registrar Ms. Marina Ordo\u00f1ez last summer, a new Warrior comes to the rescue to fill that position: Ms. Rachel Apalategui\u2014who actually knew Ordo\u00f1ez for many years prior to coming to Pueblo.<\/p>\nApalategui is no stranger to Tucson Unified School District. She has worked at multiple schools, including Grijalva Elementary School, Pistor Middle School, Tucson High Magnet School and now at Pueblo.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far, I really do enjoy being here,\u201d Apalategui said. \u201cPueblo people are very sweet, and our students are very, very kind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coming to Pueblo has been somewhat of a bittersweet transition, Apalategui admitted. She spent 14 years at Tucson High, which she said kept her \u201cgrounded\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I was really homesick [for Tucson High] in my first few weeks of being at Pueblo,\u201d Apalategui said. \u201cHowever, I have no regrets at all at this time, but coming here was a really huge change. I was used to more than 3,200 students compared to half of that number at Pueblo.\u201d She paused and said, \u201cI do love the smaller numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n
To be a high school registrar requires a great deal of communication and diplomacy, Apalategui explained. For example, this spring, she has to ensure that seniors have sufficient credits to graduate, and that can be very frustrating. She added that she has to have a frequent dialogue with counselors to make sure every senior is on track to graduate\u2014and how to help every senior graduate in May.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy advice to students\u2014and especially to seniors this semester\u2014is to make an appointment with their counselors to make a plan to best suit their chances of graduating on time,\u201d she said. \u201cNothing is more tragic than seniors waiting until the last few weeks before graduation only to realize that they are missing one credit or even one-half credit\u2014and not graduating until summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although her office walls are a bit bare, they won\u2019t be for long, Apalategui insisted.<\/p>\n
\u201cPueblo is home now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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