When a school has pride in itself, it is able to gather as a community and everyone is able to feel welcomed. The school provides the opportunity to make everyone feel like they’re a part of something,...
What started off as a quick survey of the student body’s perspective on bullying turned into a hat full of anonymous note cards with shocking pleas to stop bullying. Our staff set out to bring awareness...
As the shouting escalates, it emits a gravitational pull towards nearby students. They come from every direction to see what the commotion is about, but most already know what is going on. Naturally, a...
Most people know that one person who does, or used to, sit down on Sunday mornings with a cup of coffee and a pen or a pencil doing the crossword in the back. Maybe those people looked forward to that...
When Jamaican Yohan Blake crossed the finish line and captured the silver medal in the 200-meter final at the London Olympics, he grabbed his nation’s flag and tied it around his neck like a cape. With...
Corral Staff Editorial
Three weeks ago, the district got its first taste of this year’s new professional learning model. While teachers prepared themselves through early morning staff meetings,...
From Facebook to Twitter, people are constantly getting news about friends and their favorite celebrities. But rarely do they concern themselves with events going on outside. It seems that students only...
The scene was Munich, in what was then called West Germany, in 1972 for the Summer Olympics. It was the first time the Olympics had been held in Germany since 1936 during Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime....
Just three months ago, Oklahoma high school senior Kaitlin Nootbaar was preparing to deliver her valedictorian speech. She spoke excitedly about possibilities of where her future could lead her.
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The documentary, “Bully,” follows the lives of students and their families across the country. It observes the students closely when they are at school and at home. It also gives background on students...
For more than 50 years, the Parkway School District has employed the traditional method of class rank to acknowledge student accomplishments at graduation. The system recognizes those who have compiled...
Many students, myself included, have experienced scoldings for “dawdling instead of studying.” However, neurologists are backing up the students. Their research has given importance to something once...
