Picture yourself at school. Raising your hand when you have a question, writing down the homework in your planner, and taking notes on the lesson. The usual, right? Not so much. You look around and see all your classmates are male, and you are too. Your school is a single-sex school. These types of schools […]

High School. That mystical place where as rumor had it, there was no dress code, parties every weekend, and the lunches are better. Theses rumors need to be dispelled. They are not true. Awkward, and other teen shows like them have us to believe that there is a set of popular kids, smart Asians, druggies, […]

This class sucks. It’s pointless. “Why do we have it as a class, I don’t even pay attention.” Everyone often hear these comments in the hallway or in the actual class of health. Most kids don’t need health class when they are young because they don’t even know what half of the words mean. But […]

Academic dishonesty happens everywhere. Whenever there is a glimpse of chance a student will want to take it and even when it is hopeless one will still try to think of ways to cheat. Humans are meant to always find the shortcut the easiest way and the quickest way. For these reasons we are using […]

Spend one day in Mr. Hessler’s class, and you will forget how much you hate math. Because let’s be honest, you hate math. You wouldn’t take it if colleges didn’t require it and/or prefer it. He’s an intimidating guy at first glance, a big scary football coach, but once you take a seat in his […]

?You get home from school, open up your backpack and look at all the homework you have. You have a worksheet for Math, a lab for Science, read for History, an essay for English and a project due in the next couple days for Spanish. On top of that, you had to stay after for […]

All around the United States, many hungry students have been taking their anger onto social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook to “dish out” their anger about the “new” school lunch policy that went into effect in September of 2012, as the Washington Post reported on. This issue has been controversial over the past […]

FOR PREVENTING THE ESCALATION AND THE LONG TERM PERPETUATION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION It is a melancholy object to bring up such a topic as sensitive as illegal immigration. Illegal Immigration in the United states is when people trespass into the United States without a visa, or overstays the period of time aloud. If this continues […]

I declare that the National Honor Society is an ineffective means of motivating students and therefore should be removed from high schools. The National Honor Society (NHS) discourages students and decreases their self-esteem, among many other negative influences. The NHS is a nationwide program in high schools.Students are inducted into the NHS based on the […]

Disclaimer: The following is a satirical piece. It may or may not be exactly the opposite of what one should do in school, so please do not actually take any advice from it. PLEASE. How to Establish a Dictatorship in School I get it. You’re a shy, slightly terrified incoming freshman, and you’re not ready […]

Have you ever been sitting listening to music and get lost into the beat of the song? Or ever got amazed with a painting that moves your feelings, your soul? Have you ever went to a play of which makes you go deep into a imaginary fantasy world of which anything is possible? Then you […]

No matter what the local slang for it is, all good so-called nerds know of the bloody race for valedictorian—the clash of good grades, better grades, and the best grades all for the honor of being the student with the best GPA. Here, we call it the “GPA game.” Some may believe that this is […]

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Albert Einstein The discrepancy in our modern system of education is the lack of questioning. Today teachers consider delivering the lecture as their greatest priority, and questioning is usually given tertiary importance in the methodical hierarchy. Modern education has destroyed the wonderful ability to question, to […]

Students all around the world dread doing homework and would do anything just to have one day with no homework. But, I think we all know that this possibility is really rare. Parents and teachers just don’t know the pain we go through each night after school. And, sometimes this pain can continue through the […]

Okay, if you came here to see who my crush is don’t bother wasting your time, I’m here to go on my rant about homework since for once in my life I have free time. If anyone in my school reads this I want you to show this to our teachers Kay? Okay rant begin. […]

Today across America several thousand children and adolescents of all ages are constantly being harassed and bullied for simply what they choose to wear. School uniforms being enforced would be beneficial to everyone. It has proven to not only reduce violence, but also has lead to fewer distractions in the classrooms making it easier for […]

To be real with you I don’t know much besides the research I was able to do and the genuine feelings I have today’s education, experiences and ideas from what I’ ve felt during my years here as a student and things I had questions to but never had a real answer to. I hope […]

Education is certainly the hot button issue of the moment. At the heart of the debate over the future of education is the question – are academic subjects, such as mathematics and history, more worthy of students’ time than life skills, such as critical thinking , ethics and self-expression ? many refuse to let go […]

In my first philosophy club meeting I was introduced to the intriguing argument against charity; piloted by a man named Slavoj Zizek he envisions a society where poverty is impossible. He is confused by the United States’ decision to make charity a constituent of our government. He believes that by giving a man handouts you […]

In high school, the students who take on a lot of extracurriculars and other activities are often labeled as “try-hards” and “overachievers.”I’ve even heard teachers say “You’re just doing that so you can put it on your college application. “And while many make this fact seem evil or derogatory, I beg to differ.Is there really […]

As a senior who is graduating in a very short amount of time, I have gathered up a strong four years of advice to get you through, or hopefully help you get through, the crazy world that is high school. For starters, EVERY year matters, freshman year counts as much as sophomore year, sophomore year […]

An amazing teacher is hard to find, none the less when you find one they stay in your heart forever. Teachers are so much more than just our personal homework suppliers, but so much more than that. Seventh-Eighth grade Palm Desert Charter Middle School P.E teacher David Murphy is not just a teacher, but an […]

Yes you can, because if you are determined to do some thing so much then I think you would do it well enough to the point were you would want it. In other words if you valued sports a lot. You wanted to become the best hockey player in the world. Would you side down […]

Right now schools across New York are taking the Common Core state tests. Our teachers are getting graded based on what our scores on these tests are. This seems to be an unfair system of teacher evaluation. The way the evaluation process works, each teacher gets a number from 0 to 100 based on student […]

School seems to follow you all over the world. Aside from school itself, it appears at home, pops up in conversations between friends, and even interferes with your vacation. After being labored 100% at school, students are required to bring home this workload to the very small amount of freedom they possess. Some may argue […]

A would have been 2016 graduate of now called West Catholic Preparatory High School, was expelled for making a columbine reference while rapping during his free period. Being known for his generosity,humanity, intelligence,and sportsmanship; his peers did not think of it as a threat but just as having fun and showing off his “bars”. everyone […]

Fast Food. Burger place. Minimum wage. Illegally below minimum wage. Regrets. No money, no job, no degree. What could this be with a college degree? It would mean qualification for higher jobs. A higher job would benefit you. A more educated society is better for the economy. However, there are bars. Bars in getting the […]

The world of high school, the prison where one is contained for hours, never seeing sunlight until the bell rings, signaling the end of the day. Inside the walls, one is never safe, the fear of being odd is close to the heart. The classes are like lectures, never ending, pushing themselves into the mind, […]

I am afraid of going to school. I am also afraid of being shot. These two fears of schools and guns should not correlate, but they do. Every morning I wake up and wonder if today will be the day our school will get shot up. Is this something we can change? Where have we […]

Here at school, we have our own coffee shop! You can go to the coffee shop from anytime before school through 9th hour. Everyone who may work at the coffee shop are trained to make you coffee! All the kids who work in the coffee shop want to be there, because they get 1 business […]