The normal high school curriculum consists of a teacher standing in front of a class full of students lecturing while the students take their own notes. With such a rigid and uninteresting format of teaching, students often are bored in class and tend to dislike school...

Electives are a very popular class option when it comes to high schoolers choosing some of the courses they want to take in the upcoming school year. But one elective class in particular stands out from the rest.

Human Relationships is a semester long elective course th...

In May of 2015 my parents asked me if I thought seeing a therapist would be beneficial for me. At first, I was almost hurt that they asked this. I thought to myself, “is there something wrong with me? Do they want me to change who I am?” but I quickly realized this was...

The dynamic between an athlete and his/her coach is a special, but complicated relationship. This bond becomes even more complicated when the coach is the athlete’s parent.

A big argument in high school sports today is whether parents should be allowed to coach their ki...

Over the past few years, society’s obsession with murder-mystery podcasts, crime documentaries and thriller television shows has only increased exponentially. One in particular, Netflix’s “You”, starring actor Penn Badgley, uniquely takes the first-person perspective o...

For many, a classic childhood movie was “Wild child”. The movie is centered on the character Poppy Moore who is depicted as spoiled, selfish, narcissistic, dependent on her father’s money and bad with building relationships all because she grew up by herself in a wealt...

With the amount of stress that comes from a full five-day week, students and faculty can be greatly overwhelmed. From faculty having too many papers to even begin, and students never feeling like they have time for anything but school, a mental health day is needed for...

It started off as a method to prevent or care for different illnesses without having to go to a medical professional directly, with the sole purpose of the well-being of oneself, but the meaning of self-care has, over time, morphed into something completely different b...

During the second half of the school year, it’s easy for students to begin losing motivation and fall into a “third quarter slump”. This syndrome can be identified by fatigue and poor work ethic affecting students’ grades for the third quarter of the school year.

It’s t...

The practicality of weed by Jack Almond

In the past, marijuana has been spoken about with a very negative tone. Although many people still believe the drug is harmful and should remain illegal at the federal level, it’s widespread use among citizens has led to many seek...