Ms. Casillas
Ms. Cristina Casillas is an attendance school clerk at Hoover High school and is a cheerful and helpful person.
Ms. Casillas does everything that has to do with attendance, enrolling and documentation. She amazingly has been doing this for 39 years. She enjoys having the feeling of being able to help someone out and accomplishing good deeds. If you need anything, Ms. Casillas will be there. This year, she states that it is mostly nerve racking and stressful, since she has to continue checking documents to make sure students have their correct info and help with Hoover’s finance. She makes sure everything is up to date. She says she wishes she had enough time to do her work. Although, besides that, she wouldn’t change her job for anything in the world. She is grateful for working at Hoover.
Outside of school, she tends to relax at home and keep in contact with her family. She has three daughters and one son, 11 grandchildren, with one on the way, for a total of 15 family members. She enjoys going to her grandchildren’s softball games and birthdays. Her favorite holiday to celebrate with her family is Thanksgiving and Christmas. She expresses she loves to cook for her family, and enjoys having them all together in a house that holds all her kids’ memories.
Her goal in life is to retire and travel. She wants to travel inside the United States first, and the first two states being Florida and New York. If she ever has the chance to go overseas, she would love to go to Europe. Greece, Italy, and Spain are on her bucket list. She expresses she would love to see the monuments and points of interests.
Ms. Casillas believes “stay in your lane” is the most important advice in life. She expresses that it can be the most useful in life in whatever you plan to do.
“Live your life, do your thing, have your own vision and go for it,” advises Ms. Casillas.
Ms. Wiebke
Ms. Megan Wiebke works as an attendance clerk at Hoover High School and has been in this role since March 2023.
Ms. Wiebke chose to work at Hoover because she wanted to be part of the education field for children. According to her, attendance this year has been excellent, and the students are doing well, which marks a good start to the school year. She noted that many students tend to miss school most frequently during the last eight weeks. Wiebke also shared one of the funniest excuses a parent gave for their child’s absence; a parent called in with an entertaining reason.
“My daughter can’t come school today. It’s Friday the 13th.”
Another thing she mentioned was that missing school does not only affect the school but also the student’s learning academics and future activities if they plan on going to hoco, prom, and graduation.
Ms. Wiebke also mentioned that she has three daughters and has been happily married for over 14 years. She also loves the color pink. And she added that her favorite season of the year is fall because she loves Thanksgiving and enjoys spending time with family. Lastly she wanted to let Hoover Cardinals know to stay positive this year, stay in school, and stay out of trouble, and most importantly, be on time.
