Notre Dame burns, affects SJS French community
By SJ Lasley, St. John's School
May 17, 2019
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Following the unexpected burning of Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral on April 15, members of the SJS community reflected on their own connections to the famous building. French teacher Jacqueline Vest grew up in France and took regular trips to Paris with her parents. As an adult, she often took...
Students, parents and faculty express concern over sample elementary schedule
By Lauren Teller and Slater Dixon
May 17, 2019
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The Sioux Falls School District (SFSD) is facing widespread community backlash over a sample elementary school schedule that would cut fine arts and P.E. instructional time by 25 percent. The plan has caused considerable resistance among parents and students who see the fine arts as one of the most...
South High brushes up on an old mural
By Mia Swanson, South High School
May 17, 2019
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The mural along the practice field at South High will be replaced by the end of this school year. Over the past 18 years the mural has been there, the paint has begun to chip away from the wall and the mural has been tagged multiple times as well. It wasn’t until a few months ago that South High Principal,...
Broken glass fuels focused fundraiser
By Cade Spencer, James Bowie High School
May 16, 2019
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Glass lay broken on the ground as an estimated 75 windows were shattered around the Bowie facility. This vandalism that struck campus on Dec. 13, 2018 caused the school community to call for increased security. In response to such demands, the PTSA decided to focus their Build Up Bowie fundraiser on necessary s...
2019 Love Awards promotes female empowerment and unity
By Sarah Danielson, Pleasant Valley High School
May 16, 2019
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When Jasmine Babers was 15 years old, she started a nonprofit magazine that had one main message: every girl has a story. After seeing how a friend was callously bullied by her classmates, Babers knew she needed to make a space for girls everywhere to feel safe. To Babers, every girl, no matter what...
Career fair news anchor’s Instagram video about hating high school causes unrest within SDA student body
By Joice He, San Dieguito Academy
May 16, 2019
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KUSI news anchor and reporter Ashlie Rodriguez posted a video on her Instagram story about San Dieguito Academy’s career fair last Wednesday that some students criticized as disrespectful. The video was of herself at the career fair with the caption, “Just remembering why I hated high school....
Behind ‘Brave’: Music video promotes new Academic Center
By Allie Worchell, The Archer School for Girls
May 15, 2019
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"Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out" echoed through the halls of the new Academic Center at the Grand Opening on April 13. Upper School students saw a music video celebrating the opening of the new Academic Center at the Upper School meeting on April 10. The video, made by Archer Comm...
Petaluma Youth Join International Climate Strike
By Alejandro Paredes, Casa Grande High School
May 15, 2019
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On March 15, students all over the world skipped or walked out of school to demand radical action to stop climate change and demonstrate their dedication to the fight for environmental justice. The school was one of the thousands to participate in the strike. "These strikes will raise awarene...
Grady’s print shop cut after 25 years
By Tyler Jones, Henry W. Grady High School
May 15, 2019
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What is Grady High School? How do you sum up all of the efforts of one place into a single word, picture, or phrase? For graphic design teacher Paul Nicolson, it is easy. Nicholson’s graphic design pathway has been responsible for the creation of Grady’s t-shirts, branding and multitudes of proj...
Beyond ArtFest: How the art department supports students year-round
By Victoria Gardey '20, Grosse Pointe South High School
May 15, 2019
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Although ArtFest has come and gone, the opportunities for art students to showcase and share their work are only just beginning. According to art teachers Thomas Szmrecsanyi and Emily Wolfe, the art department works hard to provide students with chances to share their art through things like the Legacy...
Elementary students say “hola” to a new after school program
By Kaitlyn Ryan, Pleasant Valley High School
May 15, 2019
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This year, Cody Elementary School began implementing a language program after school. The participants will begin learning a foreign language long before their peers, giving them an advantage in the future. The idea emerged when a pioneering parent contacted Laurie Brasche, the principal at Cody,...
Students sing their way to upcoming chorus concert
By Destiny Montgomery, Altoona Area Junior High School
May 14, 2019
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On May 3, eighth and ninth grade varsity chorus members will be performing for their spring concert. Choral director and teacher Jessica Connell has been preparing the students for their concert. Students have a period of chorus everyday. Eighth grade has it first o...
Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests get closer
By Zakary Hicks, Altoona Area Junior High School
May 14, 2019
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The seventh and eighth grade PSSA's are here. These standardized tests include reading and mathematics for seventh and eighth grade, writing for eighth grade and science for eighth grade. These tests require early planning. “There just never seems to be enough time to get in all the different...
Camp Jojo to honor former student
By Katie Hanson, Walt Whitman High School
May 14, 2019
Content warning: This article contains language that pertains to suicide. Camp Jojo, an outdoor summer camp designed to help support teens affected by suicide, will be held this July in honor of former student Jojo Greenberg. Her mother, Sonya Spielberg, and her former camp director, Joel Van Egbe...
Becoming a community
By Josselin Ramirez and Stephanie Rosas
May 14, 2019
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Lewisville Soup is a new community event created by art teacher Nicole Franczvai. The main idea of Lewisville Soup is to bring people together to share their ideas on how to create a better environment throughout the community. Though it is not an original idea, Franczvai was inspired by another organizatio...
Celebrating the cultures of students, SCHS introduces first-ever Diversity Rally
By Melina Kritikopoulos, Santa Clara High School
May 9, 2019
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This year, Santa Clara High School’s annual second semester renaissance rally was replaced by a Diversity Rally, on Friday Apr. 12, preceded by a week-long celebration of the many cultures at SCHS. The week and rally come with a theme – “Here, I am at home” – that is presented in the style...
Girl power
By Sydney Wong, Lovejoy High School
May 9, 2019
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Powerful performances are nothing new to senior Ally Carraway. Last year, she broke a school record by becoming the first girl from the district to qualify for the 5A state powerlifting meet. This year, she surpassed her own record by becoming the first girl to qualify twice. Then, at this year’s...
Update: Controversy around Tom Ricks grows as Kirkwood responds to pastoral letter
By Thomas Birmingham, Maisie Bradley, Izzy Colón, and Logan Crews
May 9, 2019
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Grant Trokey, 2016 KHS graduate, had attended Greentree Community Church for as long as he could remember. For two years during high school, he played with the worship band a few times a month and attended camps with the church. Then, at age 18, he came out as gay. Within a month, he found he was no...
Color guard goes global for world competition in China
By Avery Shelton, James Bowie High School
May 5, 2019
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Right around the time when students start preparing themselves for AP tests and spring finals, the color guard team is getting ready for a trip to Beijing, China to compete at Winter Guard International (WGI). After receiving an invitation, the color guard team is set to be the first All-American team to a...
Child Development Inspires Students to Pursue Careers in Teaching
By Anna Stewart, Rockville High School
May 4, 2019
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It appears to be the typical high school classroom, but walk past the desks and promethean board, and watch as the room suddenly transforms. It becomes filled with cubbies, bright bulletin boards with a letter and theme of the week, puzzles, blocks and even a class pet rabbit. This is the child...
Sophomore Andres Cancel’s Family Recovers From the Devastating Hurricane Puerto Rico
By Sarah Zimmerman, Francis Howell North High School
May 4, 2019
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Wind howling outside, Andres Cancel’s grandmother pushes against the pressure on the other side of the door with all her strength. All she remembers is the water rising. Then she blacked out. That was all the stress she could handle. They had enough water for two weeks. Enough food for two weeks. Enough g...
New charging stations expands electric vehicle access
By Rito Pineda, Akins High School
May 2, 2019
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In November, Austin Energy celebrated the “EVs for Schools” initiative with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Akins new electric vehicle charging station. The event featured speakers like Jackie Sargent, Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen as well as various Austin ISD administrators. They spo...
Beloved Principal Ray Aponte will leave South on a high note
By Kinsley Wilcox-McBride, South High School
May 1, 2019
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On March 19, beloved Principal Ray Aponte made a huge announcement: with the end of the 2018-19 school year, he will officially end his time as principal of South High. Aponte has served as South’s Principal for the past five years. “I was really struggling with it all the way up until December o...
Principal Responds to Allegations of Cover-Up
By Emily Lu, Westwood High School
May 1, 2019
After website 71 Republic published a story titled Exclusive: Westwood High School Covers Up Shooting Incident on Monday, April 15, Principal Mario Acosta responded with a statement emailed to the Westwood community, maintaining that the story “contains inaccurate and misleading information.” The arti...
A Fallen Hero
By Alexa Fisher, Dallastown Area High School
May 1, 2019
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Benjamin Hines, Dallastown graduate 2006, was killed in Afghanistan on Monday April 8. He was one of three marines who died in a Taliban attack near the American base. Hines was just 31 at the time a roadside bomb hit near the Bagram Airfield. A member of the reserve unit out of Harrisburg-CO E...
Life on hold
By Nick Einig, De Smet Jesuit High School
April 30, 2019
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The diagnosis He was hurting, he had a lump in his neck, chest pains, night sweats, and felt so uneasy that he couldn’t hold down a meal. He went to see a doctor but he already knew what it was. “We came home from the hospital that day and I got a call and I knew there was something ...
Standing in the wake of devastation (Part 1)
By Kelly Wei, Coppell High School
April 29, 2019
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Fifty are dead. Fifty more wounded. On March 16, a pair of mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand suffered what might have once been considered unimaginable, but is now rapidly becoming the new norm. In the wake of the Christchurch shootings, perpetuated by Australian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed white su...
Biology teacher Tina Gaser places in physique competition
By Devon Schroeder, Baldwin High School
April 29, 2019
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A lot of teachers at Baldwin take advantage of the weight room or enjoy working out to maintain physical fitness. Biology teacher Tina Gaser, however, is on a whole different level. Last week Gaser competed in the figure portion of the Organization of Competition Bodies Physique Competition at...
Students, Teachers Protest MCAS Question
By Laura Dupuis, Mount Greylock Regional School
April 28, 2019
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During the English Language Arts MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) exam this spring, sophomores encountered a narrative essay prompt based on a passage from the novel The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, and students were asked to write a journal entry from the perspective of an ...
ASL to be introduced at Mason
By Megan Clinton and Emma McDonald
April 26, 2019
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On January 15, 2018, the school board unanimously approved the American Sign Language (ASL) I course for the 2019-2020 school year. The course itself was taken out of the Program of Studies at Mason due to the lack of student interest and enrollment over time. 2011 was the last year that the course was...