Log onto Facebook and you’re likely to observe the train wreck that is teenage grammar. Misused homonyms run rampant and apostrophes are strewn about. What if we offered a course that would teach students...
The school’s recent late start and early release days create opposing viewpoints among students. Some favor late start days because they receive additional sleep. The most common praise students...
When you stop and think about it, the purpose of high school and college is to prepare young people for their lives in the work world. But how can we actually prepare ourselves for work life sitting in...
Those five inches of plastic hanging from the rear-view mirror of a car is a right of passage for juniors and seniors. Being able to drive yourself to and from school gives one a great sense of freedom...
Early morning, musty locker rooms and physical movement. Sounds like a delightful recipe for a wonderful day, right? Not to mention confusing rules of sports never played and just a slight pinch of sexism...
A typical student comes home on a Monday afternoon after taking all seven classes, which only occurs once in the usual school week.The weekend, a tedious C day, and now homework from all classes contributes...
Walking in the hallway, a passerby could see students all dressed in black or wearing pajamas this week. Different themes that are set to wear for each grade level throughout the week. Students don't...
Since my freshman year the water fountain in the ESOL hallway's water pressure is so low that no one can even drink from it.
This is a real inconvenience for many kids including the newspaper staff,...
12 years has past since the world changing attack on September 11, 2001, yet the events on that historic day are still not forgotten.
The nation grieves together every year on this special day, a rare...
Attention! An internet streaming device has invaded our planet and has begun to brainwash the minds of terrestrials all around the world. Netflix, a site that offers DVD rentals via mail, has in the...
More than a month removed from Miley Cyrus’s “twerkathon” at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, it’s hard to get the painful image out of my mind.
What’s even worse is that a wholesome Disney...
The qualifications for tenure in the state of Missouri are as follows, according to the Missouri State Teachers Association: “Teachers who have been employed full time as teachers in the same school...
