It does more harm than good when students are forced to cram hundreds of facts and tidbits into their heads the night before finals. It is times like these where scheduling can have a crucial impact on...
High school students that play sports should not be required to take a Physical Education course. I run cross country in the fall, condition all winter, and run track in the spring. It’s a waste of space...
With winter weather comes different opportunities for outdoor as well as indoor activities. Whether it’s making hot chocolate and watching movies, or going ice skating with a group of friends, this...
Starting next semester, Parkway has decided to bring drug dogs into all of the district’s high schools. While drug dogs may be effective in controlling drug issues on campuses, the payoff of the detection...
Friends, family, nonexistent pets, I bid you farewell. We are fast approaching what the Mayan calendar calls the end of the world. Whether you believe this “myth” or not, it brings up a lot of good...
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...
