Stagnant is how you might describe your classroom. Students sit, stewing in a collective cesspool of gloom. Heads sag and eyes roll as strings of stale sentences stroll off some teacher’s tongue. Often,...

It’s fall 2024 and Gregory Stevens’ Eco-Art class is a breath of fresh air for Stevens and students alike. Nature-deficit disorder, as coined by Richard Louvre in 2005, refers to the minimal amount...

You walk into class listening to your favorite song. Everything is right with the world, but then your teacher tells you to take off the headphones and turn the music off. Some Loy Norrix teachers are...

Imagine sitting in a quiet classroom, where the teacher is sitting at their desk, not engaging in conversations while you sit helplessly at your desk not knowing what to do. This is the reality in many...

Every weekday for 180 days, teenagers wake up and go to school. Most of the time the students learn the curriculum and move onto the next class, typically leaving them unimpressed and often bored.  Once...

By Kayla Adams It’s Sunday night and your basketball team has just won the most important game of the year. Plans are quickly made with the team to go to dinner and celebrate the victory. You still...

GUEST WRITER: Aiden Lane “If somebody has been kicked every time they try to get up, or they feel that way, they’ll stop trying,” said ATYP teacher, Becky Cooper before the beginning of her AP English...