Our school’s SGA has been wildly successful. In 2015-2016, the SGA raised $12,171. In the area of community service, the SGA holds blood drives, toy drives, and raises awareness for cancer.
However,...
Computer Science Education Week was December 4-10. This is when the Hour of Code takes place. Anybody can do the Hour of Code at any time, and it is not limited to just that week. The Hour of Code is...
With a school that has a demographic of 86.3% students that identify as Caucasian, 6.1% Hispanic, 2.2% Asian, 2.7% African American, and 2.2% of students who identify as multiple races. However, these...
by Hannah Haught, Co-Editor-In-Chief
• November 9, 2017
Once again, a school has banned Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. In fact, the entire school district of Biloxi, Mississippi has removed the novel from their eighth grade curriculum due to language...
Juliette Gordon Lowe, the founder of Girl Scouts, once said, “Right is right even if no one else does it.”
Lowe, known as “Crazy Daisy,” would be turning over in her grave if she knew what was...
by Emily Reed, Co-editor-in-chief
• October 26, 2017
A few years ago, whether students liked it or not, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was a huge part of their future. Seniors busied themselves applying to colleges and taking the SAT for the last time...
Ever since 1:1 Chromebooks were introduced a year ago, they have taken over classrooms. Most students said "goodbye" to paper assignments and big clunky textbooks, and "hello" to Google Classroom and Google...
I have always had sympathy for the Haitians living in the indescribable poverty of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, but I never took it upon myself to actually do something about it, until...
by Hannah Haught, Co-Editor-In-Chief
• October 10, 2017
Due to a mandate for schools created last year by Governor Larry Hogan, The 2017-2018 school year started after Labor Day and ended by June 15 for all Maryland public schools. This, in addition with the...
Our values and history as a school have been thrown into the spotlight in these last couple months. Ever since the “Tribe” leader was banned from wearing a Native American headdress, the student body...
