By Ashley Becerra, Karla Berrueto, and Ava Lim
• September 28, 2022
This school year, Carnegie Vanguard High School and other HISD schools implemented new safety policies following the Uvalde, Texas shooting on May 24 at Robb Elementary. HISD approved a $2.3 million budget...
By Harper Barnowski and Darby Infeld
• September 28, 2022
Graffiti discovered at Pyle Middle School this summer contained antisemitic symbols and both racial and homophobic slurs, Pyle Principal Christopher Nardi wrote in an email to The Black & White.
...
On Monday Aug. 22, teachers across McCallum experienced leaks and flooding due to Austin’s heaviest rain in three years. Constructed in 1953, the school is aged and has been prone to rain leakage for...
By Shreeja Tangutur, Chantilly High School
• September 27, 2022
Controversy stirred after several Northern Virginia counties such as Prince William, Loudon and Arlington closed school on Nov. 4, 2021, for Diwali, an important cultural celebration celebrated by many...
By Carol Queiroz and Tara Phillips
• September 27, 2022
On Sept. 20, @sexualassaultatmasters, an anonymous student-run Instagram account that shared stories of sexual misconduct violations (including harrassment and assault) within the Masters community,...
After being postponed twice, NASA announced that the rocket for the Artemis 1 moon mission will launch the uncrewed Orion capsule on Sept. 27.
Though the launch will be 1,894 miles away from Colorado,...
By Brennan Eberwine, duPont Manual High School
• September 26, 2022
Employees at the largest newspaper in Kentucky filed their intent to unionize their newsroom with the National Labor Relations Council on August 30th.
The Courier-Journal Guild made its intent public...
By Gabrielle Lashley, Daniel Pearl Magnet High School
• September 26, 2022
Journalism adviser Adriana Chavira’s three-day suspension without pay has been rescinded by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) as of Sept. 16.
“I feel relieved,” Chavira said. “It’s...
By Clare Kirwan, Harrisonburg High School
• September 23, 2022
The room buzzed with anticipation and excitement, a light chatter filled the space. At approximately 4:12 p.m. Tuesday, September 13, the United States Secretary of Education walked into the library...
By Ujala Chauhan, Carlmont High School
• September 23, 2022
More than one-third of Pakistan is under water as of Sept. 9. Thirty-two million people have been displaced, and, as of Sept. 13, 1,481 people have died. Two million acres of crops have been impaired,...
By Emma Fudacz, Downers Grove South High School
• September 22, 2022
During the final week of August, the Downers Grove Public Library (DGPL) announced that it would be holding a Drag Queen Bingo event for teens on Oct. 11, 2022 to celebrate National Coming Out Day. On...
Thirteen students were suspended from Design Tech High School (d.tech) in Redwood City, California. These students, along with many others, protested the school’s new policies on Aug. 24, prompting allegations...
By Will Hagaman, Colonial Forge High School
• September 22, 2022
Governor Glenn Youngkin visited Forge today to sign his newest executive directive and announce a new system to communicate student needs with their parents.
At a roundtable with parents, teachers,...
By Leila Usanovic, Asmita Pokharel, and Olivia Rechtorik
• September 21, 2022
Several dozen students protested the dress code during homeroom today, but Principal Shaun Tomaszewski later criticized their use of obscenities while protesting.
The students said they had been wrongfully...
By Avery Cheatham, Willis High School
• September 21, 2022
When faced with a loss, families react in different ways.
Some families come together and become stronger.
Some families suffer a break in their family.
And then other families do more. They...
After four grueling days and over 275 abstruse questions, Lynbrook’s Science Bowl team emerged victorious over 64 high school regional champions in the 32nd annual National Science Bowl, hosted...
By Eliza Lampert, Latin School of Chicago
• September 20, 2022
The Latin School Union (LSU) is heading into the school year with no contract and no raise, but the collective bargaining process continues.
In its inaugural year after the June 2021 election, the LSU...
By Greta Berglund, Walt Whitman High School
• September 19, 2022
Content warning: this story contains language that pertains to sexual assault.
Former Whitman social studies teacher and crew coach Kirkland Shipley was sentenced to three years in prison at a court...
By Lillian Paugh, La Salle Catholic Preparatory High School
• September 16, 2022
With schools across America being hit hard by the current national staffing and teacher shortage, La Salle’s counseling department is not immune, beginning the new school year with only two counselors...
By Harper Barnowski, Walt Whitman High School
• September 16, 2022
Newly constructed wellness centers at 19 MCPS high schools are not on track to open until December due to staffing challenges, according to the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services...
During the Board of Education meeting on Sept. 1, the main topic of discussion was controversial comments Board member Jessica Clark made at a Real Talk Radio event on Aug. 23.
The meeting resulted...
By Elsa Dahlgren, Lake Forest High School
• September 15, 2022
Like the local Lake Bluff parade, the Highland Park Fourth of July parade is an annual family event where the community comes together to celebrate a day of patriotism and community.
That sense of community...
By Nadia Knoblauch, Hagerty High School
• September 14, 2022
“We have a first-time voter!”
Met with claps and cheers, senior Cat Bunn stepped into the Riverside Park Center with one goal in mind: filling out her first ballot, an important step into her adult...
By Lauren Chuu, Melody Cui, Avni Gandhi, Taryn Lam, Sarah Liu, Eshika Tiwari, and Sonia Verma
• September 14, 2022
FUHSD will begin providing free menstrual products in restrooms across all five high schools beginning the 2022-23 school year, in accordance with the Menstrual Equity for All Act signed into law by Gov....
By Andrew McLaughlin, North Allegheny Senior High School
• September 14, 2022
It is a popular saying that there is no such thing as a free lunch, yet for the past two years, students at North Allegheny and across the country were able to receive breakfast and lunch free of charge...
By Greta Gustafson, Jamie Marlowe, and Aran Sonnad-Joshi
• September 14, 2022
Students received an anonymous message Wednesday night detailing intentions to “shoot up” Midtown, forcing many to stay home over safety concerns.
The threat is a replication of a message that...
By Audrey Ghosh, Parkway West High School
• September 13, 2022
On account of a new Missouri law, school librarians and teachers have removed certain content from the bookshelves that was previously available to students. Passed Aug. 28, Senate Bill 775 modifies state...
After comments made by Rockwood Board of Education member Jessica Clark on Aug. 23 were widely circulated on social media and in the press, the Sept. 1 meeting at Marquette High School drew a large crowd...
As a child, Assistant Principal Natalie Jaworski said she viewed England as a “magical place.” Jaworski’s perception of the country was largely shaped by stories of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign that...
By Ingrid Smith, McCallum High School
• September 13, 2022
As a result of AISD’s budget crisis, the award-winning McCallum Fine Arts Academy Orchestra faces a challenge it hasn’t encountered in over 20 years—sharing its directors with another school.
In...
The Investigation
On Tuesday afternoon, a student reported seeing graffiti of a swastika and n-word on the wall of the C-Building boys’ bathroom.
After being notified by the student, Burlingame...
It took 78 minutes for the school district’s police force to enter the Robb Elementary classroom in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two adults were killed on May 24. The shooting exhibited flaws...
By Davis Marks, Harvard-Westlake School
• September 12, 2022
Community members celebrated the life and career of former Performing Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies and Independent Research Teacher Ted Walch at an event at the Upper School on Sunday. Walch, who...
By Gabrielle Lashley, Daniel Pearl Magnet High School
• September 12, 2022
A previous version of this article stated that Chavira was suspended over not removing an article, when in fact she was suspended over not removing information from the article. This was rectified at 2:52...
With a vision to decrease the fatalities and severe injuries on roads, the Cupertino City staff has been tackling local road safety through the Local Road Safety Plan. The LRSP is currently in its development...
For almost a century, standardized tests have been an important part of any student’s college application in the US. However, in the last two years an increasing number of colleges and universities have...
By Clara Martinez, The American School in London
• June 1, 2022
Over 1,000 students ages 5 through 18 walk onto the ASL campus every day. When doing so, students file past numerous security guards and bulletproof glass that surrounds the entrance. For 19 students and...
By Harper Barnowski, Walt Whitman High School
• May 31, 2022
Nearly 860 MCPS teachers are resigning or retiring from their positions by the end of the school year, according to the MCPS Department of Staffing and Certification. The latest figure represents approximately...
By Sonya Kulkarni, Bellaire High School
• May 31, 2022
About 2,000 students staged a walkout in protest of Bellaire principal Michael McDonough’s reassignment yesterday morning in the bus lane.
Starting at 11:10 a.m., waves of students — some hoisting...
By Nadya Chase, Wayland High School
• May 31, 2022
Over the past few years, WayCAM, a public, educational and government (PEG) channel located in Wayland, has continuously seen a decrease in cable subscriptions. Since WayCAM is a 501 nonprofit organization,...
By Megan Snyder, La Salle Catholic Preparatory High School
• May 31, 2022
Junior soccer player Clare Daudelin immediately noticed something wrong when walking through the La Salle parking lot after school this past fall. The right front passenger window of her car was shattered,...
By Caelan Jones, Dominion High School
• May 31, 2022
Today from 12:00 pm to 12:21 pm, led by Jacob Wesoky, Danielle Douglas and Nora Thimmesch, approximately 350 students walked out of school to support the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting...
By Addie Gleason, Parkway West High School
• May 27, 2022
On May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old opened fire on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen students, two adults and the gunman were confirmed dead. Hospital workers are treating multiple other students...
By Emily Short, Daniel Pearl Magnet High School
• May 26, 2022
In previous years, freshman Genesis Cuellar has not learned much about climate change in the classroom and its effects on the environment.
“When it comes from past experience, I don’t think there...
By Abbi Elliott, Tigard High School
• May 26, 2022
Tigard High School’s program for Community Experience for Career Education (CE2) turns 50 this month. Students and business participants in the CE2 alternative program are invited to the milestone...
By Sruthi Ramesh, Wentzville Liberty High School
• May 25, 2022
Hundreds gathered at Kiener Plaza in St. Louis on May 14 in support of reproductive rights, after a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court on May 2 showed its opinions on overturning Roe v. Wade....
By Aditte Parasher, Walt Whitman High School
• May 24, 2022
The MVA announced in a May 3 press release that it will end pandemic-era modifications to the driver’s test and resume administration of the open-road portion of the exam on June 6.
Since June 2020,...
By Sapir Zachary, Parkway West High School
• May 23, 2022
English teacher Angela Frye expected to pay over 70K in student loan debt to the federal government. Since Feb. 15, Frye has been forgiven of her debt by the U.S. Department of Education and the federal...
The nationwide debate over how to teach race in the classroom came to LFHS this spring when online newspaper The Daily Caller published an article April 26 headlined “Illinois Teacher Reportedly Forced...
By Cuyler Dunn and Arien Roman Rojas
• May 23, 2022
Students dropped pencils for protest signs on Tuesday, May 17, to protest a recently leaked Supreme Court draft opinion showing that the court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Nearly 400 students walked...
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![FIVE-STAR CAPTAIN: In One Night Only, the opening number of the spring show on Saturday night, Blue Brigade captain Charli Cevallos is front and center setting the mood and tempo for the number and entire show. Cevallos said the opening number of the spring show is always upbeat and fun and this year’s edition was no exception. Cevallos said she remembers the moment as one of pure adrenaline. “Since opener is the first dance, the excitement is running high and it’s such a great feeling to be performing our hard work for an audience.” As the photo suggests, the team was able to perform the number in sync even though it was a new dance choreographed exclusively for the spring show by first lieutenant Annabel Winter (left) and senior lieutenant Emily Garza. “Opener was our first spring show dance we learned,” Cevallos said, “and it came together super well. … [It was] definitely a team favorite.” Cevallos said her favorite part of the number was the very beginning when Winter (left) woke her up stage left from a deep sleep to start the show. “It’s so fun,” she said, “and the audience loved it.” For the first time in three years, that audience was in the MAC and at full capacity without pandemic restrictions.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/dsc04748_52025488192_o-900x600.jpg)
![BALLADS AND BLUES: Sophomores King Perez-Cude and Joaquín Frazier, from the student band Red River Trucking Company, play a set of country-rock tunes, including traditional bluegrass tunes, Chris Stapleton’s “Midnight Train to Memphis” and an original song called “Ballad of an Outlaw Fugitive” at the Mr. Myers send-off concert. “We’re a rock band usually, but we have a lot of old school country and blues elements, so we decided to go acoustic,” Frazier said. He describes their style as complicated. “We’re kind of all over the place, but I would say blues or southern rock with some serious country and psychedelic influences,” Frazier said. Although he never met Mr. Myers, Frazier wanted to perform in honor of him. “[I] never got to know Mr. Myers, but I’ve heard great things he had done for our friends, and we wanted to play in honor of him,” he said. “We put together a short set together the night before and decided to go for it.” Reporting by Lucy Marco.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/51931221575_ee6e3fd1a4_c_51954485537_o.jpg)
![The cardiovascular system is painted on the wall outside the biology classrooms. The nicotine in vape and e-cigarette products have been proven to negatively impact the lungs, contributing to the concern the vaping epidemic will affect the health of youth for years to come. “There is an epidemic in our school of under-aged nicotine consumption… I think that this year that they did a really great job by bringing in Breathe NH… it was much more effective: there was a lot of data, statistics, infographics and [comparisons] especially to cigarettes, said Mary Martin 20, student council president.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/vapingphoto.jpg)
![English teacher Erin Fluchel places Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” back on her bookshelf. While some staff members were concerned it might cause legal troubles because it contains a sketch of a naked woman’s chest, the district ultimately determined it was not offensive. “Some of these pieces are really powerful, important pieces of dystopian literature that deserve to stay. I think [the book] provides students with a different perspective that kids should be able to access,” Fluchel said.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/BookBansFeaturePhoto-900x600.jpg)
![WSPN producers Max Brande, Josh Schreiber and CJ Brown record an episode of Wayland Sports Chat in the WayCAM studio. WayCAM has been an important asset of the Wayland community to several people, including WHS students, allowing many to learn how to produce and edit videos. “[WayCAM is] a really great thing that Wayland has that not many other towns have,” sophomore and honors script to screen student Brendan Hines said. “Im incredibly lucky that I get to [gain experience in filmmaking through WayCAM].”](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-24-at-10.21.10-PM-900x674.png)
