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,...

You walk into school from the tower, heading to your first hour. You enter the silent classroom, fall into your seat, opening your notes as your teacher dives straight into the lecture. After 70 minutes...

You decide to stay up late on a school night and wake up more tired than normal in the morning. Whether you miss the bus or are tired from staying up late the night before, you find yourself tardy for...

Most people want to get out of high school as soon as they can, but some find themselves back at their home high school, teaching rather than attending. Art teacher Errin Corstange fell in love with Loy...

You’re sitting in first hour and doing your work, as usual. The room is peaceful with students working diligently. Your mind is at ease when suddenly, an eye-popping, nostril-flaring, ear-burning question...

Over the past few years, Loy Norrix has experienced the departure of many teachers such as former art teacher Cindy VanLieu, retired English teacher Anne “Bowser” Lewis and former Spanish teacher Christina...

It’s a normal Tuesday afternoon and you just got home from school and decided to get started on your homework. You open up your planner to find that you have a 20-page chapter of assigned reading from...

Rebecca Layton, psychology, sociology and women’s studies teacher, has been a really important part of the school community during her 10 years working here.  But now, with her finishing her studies...

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...

KPS students have been learning online for two trimesters now and the Board of Education has recently announced that they plan to continue virtual learning for trimester 3. Some students, however, have...

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...