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High School Senior Reflects on The Struggles of Moving While Growing Up

High School Senior Reflects on The Struggles of Moving While Growing Up

April 16, 2019

By Kayla Adams   The engine rumbles to life as you watch the house you grew up in shrinking in the back window of the car. Low mumbles from the radio register in the background, but you can’t...

Homework is Unnecessary: Students Receive Enough Direct Instruction During the Day

Homework is Unnecessary: Students Receive Enough Direct Instruction During the Day

April 8, 2019

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...

Coffee Can Contribute to Student Stress

Coffee Can Contribute to Student Stress

Cas Terrian November 15, 2018

Chances are that you drink coffee at least occasionally, and you may not be aware that there are negative side effects. I started out drinking a cup everyday. I was hyper-focused and burning through...

Are You Prepared? SAT Testing Has Too Much Weight in Schools

Are You Prepared? SAT Testing Has Too Much Weight in Schools

Bethany Dunham June 15, 2018

April is the month that every junior dreads; it’s the month of standardized testing. You can enjoy your spring break and then right when you get back testing begins. Teachers spend weeks upon weeks trying...

Pouring From an Empty Cup: Loy Norrix Students Struggle to Find Balance in Their Busy Lives

Pouring From an Empty Cup: Loy Norrix Students Struggle to Find Balance in Their Busy Lives

December 19, 2017

By Emma Fergusson, Guest Writer “You know, no one has time to just go out in the woods for a few hours,” said senior Bethany Dunham. Like many of her fellow Loy Norrix students, Dunham dreams of...

Fulfill These Tips to Gain Success in High School

Fulfill These Tips to Gain Success in High School

December 9, 2017

By Jaden Blakes, Guest Writer High school can be full of confusion and stress at times. A wide range of students struggle to maintain a good performance throughout the school year. High school, unquestionably,...

Stressful Schedules: Regretful Students Realize That they May Not be up for the Challenge of Accelerated Classes

Stressful Schedules: Regretful Students Realize That they May Not be up for the Challenge of Accelerated Classes

Audreanna Dunton, Assistant Business Manager October 20, 2017
Tiana Boyd, Junior, takes notes in AP Biology.
Schools Need to be Realistic Regarding AP Classes

Schools Need to be Realistic Regarding AP Classes

Gaia Bogan October 19, 2017

Pushing kids into the deep end of a swimming pool was once a socially acceptable method of teaching them how to swim. Today, this ‘sink or swim’ point of view is obsolete in most circles, so why does...

Homework Stresses Students

Homework Stresses Students

January 11, 2017

GUEST WRITER: Daniel Nonato-Nonato Homework is something that students do almost every day. Homework is work students are meant to do outside of school. It is assigned for extended learning and development....

The Beginning Of The End

The Beginning Of The End

hannahstempky October 10, 2014

As senior Sam Gulliver sits in the library with his hand pressing against his head, he stares at all of his work, contemplating what to even begin with.  This workload consists of assignments from KAMSC,...

Sophomore Olivia VandePol, freshman Travis Grube, and Junior Darvious Wallace all sit and wait for a delayed track meet.

A Different Kind of Delay for Spring Sports

audrapenny May 19, 2014

As the flowers blossom, the trees sprout leaves, and the grass gets greener, there’s no better time than to play in the spring sports season. Although during this season, there is a more difficult challenge....

Ben Miller
Opinion Editor

Classical Music Will Make You a Better Person

bdawsonmiller May 16, 2014

Music is a powerful thing: the beating of a drum has led revolutionary battles, a string quartet accompanied the sinking of the Titanic. However, the art of music is not only powerful when it comes to...

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