Every six weeks is like a routine. The newspaper staff goes through our usual process. Sit down. Discuss current events. Decide what issue the students care about. Write and publish a story. And like all...
As we walk through the hallways, students sense a different setting around them. There is loud chatter among students; laughter erupts from them. There’s something distinct about this year. It’s more...
High school is the intersection of a large number of social constructs: cooperative socialization, child development and professional development, among others. Society has come to a consensus that education...
Since 2013, there have been more than 300 school shootings in America. There have been at least 17 shootings in 2018 alone, averaging more than once a week. Students don’t think it will ever happen to...
The first word is a snowflake. Seemingly harmless at first, and not cold enough for anyone to say anything about. But when one snowflake falls, hundreds are bound to follow, and soon the cold words pile...
We sit in a circle, squeezing onto couches, disregarding any sense of personal space we might have possessed. There is a chatter among us, the sound of loud laughter and people groaning overdramatically...
Story by Tyler Snell, print editor-in-chief
• December 3, 2015
The debate over students’ ownership of intellectual property started when a student in Lewisville, Texas used the school’s equipment to take pictures of a sporting event and posted them on his Flickr...
The halls of Texas High are filled with students a part of various likings. Theater, clubs, sports, dance, and, last but not least, art. The art department may not be the most popular group, but it is...
“This is not a blow off class,” a phrase frequently argued by many teachers. Their objective as the educator is to provide a path for success to every student by teaching them to integrate creative...
Every year there’s more and more of them. Teens walking around, sporting their “baby bump.” It’s become a normal part of society. The rise in teen pregnancy has overtaken America, producing more...
No teenager necessarily wants to think about creating more restrictive driving laws. To us, sometimes it feels like they’re only in place to ruin our fun or to take away our freedom. But with the recent...
EDITORIAL
Recently our neighbor school district, Pleasant Grove, added a random drug testing policy in order to separate the amount of students who use illegal substances. With this concept revolutionizing...
