The Rise of “Phone Jails” in Classrooms
By Annabella Saccaro, A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts
November 18, 2019
Cold sweat dripped from her forehead as she sat in her chair, shaking. Each time the unnamed student heard a notification ring from the phone that was on her teacher’s desk, English teacher Peggy Mellon described her as “exhibiting withdrawal symptoms like you would expect from a junkie.” This...
On the Spot: California school shooting hits close to home for Bowden
By Karen Lu, Coppell High School
November 18, 2019
A quick search on Twitter reveals “two killed, three injured”. On Thursday morning, a school shooting occurred at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Calif. Coppell High School English teacher Matthew Bowden attended Saugus High School his freshman and sophomore year in 1985-87. Thursday’s...
Hate Crime on the Rise
By Prerna Mukherjee, Beachwood High School
November 18, 2019
David Johnson went back-to-school shopping with his wife and granddaughter on Aug. 3 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Arturo Benavides, a war veteran, was checking out at the cash register. Jordan Anchondo was shopping with her husband with their two-month-old son. These innocent people were among t...
Live Coverage: Spray paint graffiti appears in school parking lot
By Gabby Mathis and Julia Golovey
November 18, 2019
The asphalt in Granite Bay High School’s parking lot, as well as the concrete block walls shared with a housing development at the end of the main parking lot and the Grizzly bear statue were vandalized sometime Saturday, Nov. 9 or early Sunday, Nov. 10. Using spray paint, the unknown perpetrators...
Alarm over Carnegie Minute requirements halted as questions resolved
By Hayden Cottrell, Lafayette High School
November 15, 2019
According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a Carnegie Minute is a unit developed in 1906 as a measure of the amount of time a student spends studying a subject in the actual classroom. These units are what determine the credit a high school student receives for a class. In...
Goodbye: Several NHS teachers are searching for opportunities elsewhere, leaving students unsettled
By Kendall Reynolds, Hope Lynas, and Jon Page
November 15, 2019
The discrepancy between the paychecks of Noblesville employees’ and those of their colleagues in neighboring districts has played a major role in the loss of several popular teachers. These educators were some of the most beloved teachers in the building, instructors who genuinely cared about their...
Autonomous cars in Austin fuel concerns for driver safety
By Samantha Thompson, James Bowie High School
November 15, 2019
Austin: a city overflowing with live music, bats, and “Keep Austin Weird” stickers, can soon add self-driving cars to its growing list of unique sights. Austin is the third city to be announced by Ford in their Autonomous 2021 plan, following Miami and Washington, D.C. In their plan, Ford has ai...
Forgotten Youth: when college is not your first choice
By Aaliyah Rapping, Kelly Tran, Kamryn Harty, and George Lefkowicz
November 15, 2019
When 2018 graduate Peter Bowden began Grady in 2014, he lived next to a crackhouse that was undergoing renovation on Boulevard. Growing up, he saw friends jailed and even killed. Bowden said kids around him engaged in illegal activities to make money for their families at an early age. “They’re...
Same School, Different Levels
By Carrington Peavy, Beachwood High School
November 15, 2019
Beachwood City Schools is a thriving and diverse school district home to a population of over 1,500 students. The district is ranked #6 in Ohio, according to the most recent school report card data. BHS earned four A’s and two B’s on the state’s indicators. 72% of BHS students took one o...
Protecting Lives or Protecting Guns?
By Amy Chen, Beachwood High School
November 15, 2019
Only 13 hours after the Aug. 3 shooting in El Paso, Texas, a 24-year old opened fire on a crowded street in Dayton, Ohio. Within 32 seconds, 27 were wounded, including 10 now reported dead. This is one more tragic episode in a long string of mass shootings in recent years. In spite of these many tragedies,...
From Classroom to Courtroom
By Mia Capretta, North Allegheny Senior High School
November 14, 2019
When murder trials are the subject of lessons in social studies class, the learning typically takes place with a textbook in hand. But yesterday, the Law and Justice classes witnessed such a trial firsthand. On Wednesday, Mr. Greenleaf’s Law and Justice students took a field trip to the Allegheny...
Portage Northern campus shuts down after shooting threat
By The Staff, Portage Northern High School
November 14, 2019
This story was originally published on The Northern Light on November 14, 2019....
The high cost of Bay Area living forces some teachers to find second jobs
By Andrew Ghazouli, Carlmont High School
November 14, 2019
Teachers in the Bay Area have the unfortunate burden of dealing with high costs of living coupled with not enough pay. This forces some teachers to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. "I've seen some staff members working at restaurants, driving for Uber, and other second jobs," said Principal...
U.S. will officially withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement
By Elizabeth Trevathan, St. Paul Academy and Summit School
November 13, 2019
President Trump officially began the year-long process of removing the United States from the Paris Agreement on Nov. 4. He announced his plan and stopped making efforts to meet the United State’s Paris Agreement pledge two years prior. The Paris Agreement was signed by over 190 countries in 2015...
County thins part of Laurel Hill County Park forest
By Marissa Coll, Wando High School
November 13, 2019
It was all nature. It was a break from the urban sprawl that Wando alumnus Michael Evans was used to in Mount Pleasant. Laurel Hill County Park was his escape. But he went back one day. Running. He came across several cleared, barren stretches of land on the north side and stopped in his tracks. He...
The CROWN Act: How SCHS Students Feel About Their Natural Hair
By Madeline Mack, Sage Creek High School
November 13, 2019
The CROWN Act was signed into law in CA just under four months ago. It states that no person can be discriminated against at school or in the workplace for wearing their natural hair. The oppression of wearing natural hair, in particular natural black hair has been forever present throughout U.S....
WCA Journalism Students Gain Insight into their Rights at the Heroes of the First Amendment Conference
By Isabella Francois, Westminster Christian Academy
November 13, 2019
On Thursday, Nov. 7, students from the 800 News staff visited the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse to learn about how the First Amendment is interpreted in different cases and how it applies to students today. At the Heroes of the First Amendment conference, students heard from Mary Beth Tinker, ...
The Truth Behind Chick-fil-A
By Mei Lamison, Academy of the Holy Names
November 13, 2019
Chick-fil-A, the third largest grossing restaurant chain in America, has once again sparked attention in the media for their anti-LGBTQ history. Two critical tweets accusing the company of ties to anti-gay legislation in Uganda and to President Donald Trump's re-election campaign have resulted in public...
Hats off to Olivia: PV community rallies behind one of its own
By Maria Vaaler, Pleasant Valley High School
November 12, 2019
The Pleasant Valley School District is no stranger to coming together to support members of the community facing immense hardships. And the recent cancer diagnosis of high school English teacher Tracy Lux’s 11-month-old daughter, Olivia, is no exception. Olivia Lux was diagnosed with an incredibly...
Light of hope: Addressing the foster care system through local adoption day
By Caitlin Crome, Pleasant Valley High School
November 12, 2019
On any given day, almost half a million American children are in foster care hoping for the day they will see a brighter future and the local Scott County District Court is working to ensure every kid will find a loving home. The month of November is known as National Adoption Month and aims to raise a...
Massachusetts on the “Ban” Bandwagon
By Nick Pagliarulo, Triton High School
November 12, 2019
Massachusetts has been starting to follow the modern way of policing the public, by simply creating bans. What seems like a radical idea to some in republican states is nothing out of the ordinary when living within a predominantly democratic state. Over the last couple years, Massachusetts seems...
“Are we prepared to fight for one another?” South students attend Bernie Sanders rally
By Erika Peterson, South High School
November 11, 2019
On Sunday, November 3, Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders held a rally with Ilhan Omar in the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota. Several South students were in attendance to see their representative stand with Sanders, a frontrunner in the 2020 presidential race for the democratic nomination. One...
Aftermath of the CPS strike after a week back in school
By Olivia Ostrowski, Saba Ali, Editor-In-Chief, and Lia Riechmann, Editor-In-Chief
November 11, 2019
On Friday, Oct. 31, the Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU) struck a deal with the city of Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), bringing an end to a 15-day strike by the CTU. CPS agreed to a five-year, $1.5 billion deal that will include the addition of hundreds of nurses and social workers, a new committee to ...
Social media posts camouflaged as news
By Talia Lissauer, St. Louis Park High School
November 11, 2019
Evolution of news Communications and journalism professor at the University of Minnesota Chris Ison said the modernized media has replaced reliable news from trained journalists with posts from online bloggers. “Journalists used to be the gatekeepers. Those were the folks who d...
The Vision editors report from the Trump rally
By Caroline Boltz, The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
November 8, 2019
Over 10,000 Mississippians flooded the BancorpSouth Arena for the Trump rally, vying for the chance to see the president last Friday Nov. 1. Five editors from "The Vision" were able to secure a spot in the news and media section--being the only high schoolers there with official passes. Trump held the...
‘We had to live with the unknown’: Students reflect on Getty fire impacts
By Anna Brodsky, Jessica Jimenez, and Vaughan Anoa'i
November 8, 2019
When senior Stella Gregg's mother shook her awake at 3:00 a.m. on Monday morning, she glimpsed her bedside clock and thought she had slept through the school day. Instead, her mother said she had to evacuate because of the Getty fire. She grabbed some of her favorite clothes and childhood stuffed animals....
Federal government defunds public health care’s Planned Parenthood
By Dylan Rowe, Granite Bay High School
November 8, 2019
Abortion, a word that for most evokes strong emotions, has been a topic of controversy within the political world and the general public. Planned Parenthood, one of the leading institutions for women’s reproductive health services, including abortion, has officially begun to lose funding from the...
10-Year-Old Santa Ana Girl Dies by Suicide
By Wendy Rodriguez, Godinez Fundamental High School
November 7, 2019
Allison Ruth Wendel, 10, from Santa Ana committed suicide on Sunday, October 13, 2019. She attended Hazard Elementary School as a fifth-grader in neighboring Garden Grove Unified School District. The Santa Ana Police Department confirms Wendel was found dead in the bathroom by her 9-year-old sister....
Brebeuf resists Archdiocese’s requests prompting decree and appeal: How it all went down
By Natanya Katz, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School
November 7, 2019
Sometime before October 2017, the Office of the Archbishop of Indianapolis, also known as the Chancery Office, became aware that a teacher at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School was in a same-sex marriage under civil law. In October 2017, the Chancery Office notified the Brebeuf administration of the Archdiocese’...
When a Tower Falls
By Zachary Khouri, Brianna Cheng, Auva Soheili, Maddy Ting, and Miki Nguyen
November 7, 2019
The Kincade Fire If you took an image of any of the 15 fires that have afflicted California in the last week, it would look like a snapshot from hell. Here in the Belmont-San Carlos area, the air pollutant PM 2.5 lingers in the air, a cautious reminder of the fires that burn not so far ...