As a child growing up in a multicultural environment, Lisa Goldsmith, a biology teacher at Granite Bay High School, never felt apart from those around her because of her race.
As of the 2019-2020 school year, 2.1% of the 2,073 students at Granite Bay High School identify as Black or African American. Concurrently, the staff at GBHS mirrors this minority percentage accordingly…
Everyday dread is assimilated by the creaking of my garage door opening, denoting another day of saying goodbye with the looming knowledge that my parents are venturing into hot pots of Covid-19.
My…
We’re coming back from a brief hiatus, so I’m excited to be bringing you a new episode. So, what’s the difference between ethnicity and race? I had always assumed that they were the same thing:…
Y.R. is an Iranian chemical engineer. In 2016, she stayed awake for 24 consecutive hours supervising catalysts in her laboratory, a task that most modern labs with basic funding could manage without human…
Placer County is currently administering COVID-19 vaccines to health care personnel in Phase 1a, as well as residents over the age of 65 and workers in specific employment-based sectors such as education,…
Welcome to White-Passing, where I, Ali Juell, and Jillyan McKinney, the Ethnic Studies teacher at Granite Bay High School, discuss being White and Latinx. This podcast series will focus on ethnicity,…
On December 14, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favor of five days a week of in person instruction with 70 minute class periods despite the calls from the teachers’ union to continue on a…
Welcome to White-Passing, where I, Ali Juell, and Jillyan McKinney, the Ethnic Studies teacher at Granite Bay High School, discuss being white and latinx. This podcast series will focus on ethnicity,…
Corsages, tuxes, and dresses fill Instagram feeds, paired with captions of “Shhh!” and “Best winterball ever.” As high schools have not been allowed to plan functions throughout this semester,…
While there have always been screams of social injustice relating to race in America, this summer those voices have been amplified tenfold. I’m sure you know why.
Diversify Our Narrative (DON) is a student-led organization that advocates for a more diverse curriculum and inclusive district. The RJUHSD Diversify Our Narrative chapter is now connecting with their…
Throughout the nation, thousands of 911 calls are made every day. Trained police officers are always at the ready to be at a scene of emergency, but with state and county restrictions that limit the amount…
In recent years, there has been discussion of changing the student section name from Tribe to one that is more favorable due to the concerns that the name Tribe can be viewed as insensitive towards Native…
Death to suicide has become so common that it has also almost become numbing. Mourning those who passed is often the automatic response to hearing of such tragedies. However, the strenuous battle survivors…
A place of inclusion – the student cheering section at Granite Bay High School was designed to be a place where students could gather for a common purpose in support of their peers. While the students…
Grandparents play an important role in many peoples’ lives as they are the people we go to when our own parents say “no”or when we get a bad grade on a test and need some cheering up, like ice cream…
“If anything like SARS happened again, everyone in the world knows who they would call: they would call us. And we would step up,” Tanja Popovic, the former CDC Chief Science Officer, said in 2007.
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Leading up to the district’s reopening 178 teachers who believed they would be teaching from home had the rug pulled out from underneath them and discovered they would be coming back to school in just…
As social inequalities have gained media attention over the last couple of months, advocating for racial reform has increased respectively as a result. Included within that agenda is diversifying school…
Amidst the “resurfacing” of racial tensions, many students have begun to express their voice on fragile issues through social media and other activism platforms.
For many seniors, that last spring semester is when they make their last memories of highschool. By that time many seniors are finally relaxing. College applications are over, SAT and ACT tests are done,…
With people unable to leave their homes due to the shelter-in-place mandate, many have found themselves feeling adventurous and experimental when it comes to switching up their physical appearance.
Hosts Ransom Allen and Ashley Yung interview Matthew Wilson, a senior at GBHS, about how student life is changing with social distancing, college and online classes, and the class of 2020 missing out…
Staying locked indoors indefinitely is bound to result in serious cabin fever. As California residents search for ways to ride out the state-wide self-quarantine order from Gov. Gavin Newsom, many…
In wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the senior class of 2020 has had to sacrifice countless ‘lasts’ of high school, but this global crisis could also be affecting their future.
Barely a month ago girls were frantically making arrangements for junior prom, spending weeks and typically a hefty amount of cash to find the perfect dress. As events like prom only happen once throughout…
We are living in unprecedented times in America – Covid-19 has shut the country down and triggered an astonishing economic collapse. But it’s also personal, and it’s being lived out in the homes…
As the semester drags on, the days getting longer and longer, seniors begin to wonder if everything interesting has just been drop-kicked out of existence by the California Department of Education.
Stories about victims of the life-threatening disease of cancer has become all too common throughout the world. In fact, it’s almost become too common to the extent that feeling the direct emotions…
Update: Roseville Joint Union High School District schools will be closed from March 16 to April 14 following a directive from the Placer County Department of Education to close down all schools in the…
Racing has always been a unique choice in the sporting world. In comparison to other sports and hobbies, motorsports has differentiated itself with the thrill of pushing far past the limits of the human…
Another Friday night, another typical high school party. One particular Friday afternoon in early December, however, marked a different type of get-together — a college letter-opening party.
With February comes Black History Month, a chance to honor Black Americans who changed the course of history and made the world a better, more equal place.