Opinion

Dear Senior Class, I am tired of hearing about your top school — which you probably won’t get into — or seeing your maroon red hydro flask with an obnoxious Harvard sticker because someone in your extended family went there a decade ago. And quite frankly, no one wants to talk to walking LinkedIn profiles […]

If you tell a group of kindergarteners returning from recess to sit down for a math lesson, the results will obviously vary. Some may ignore you and others may listen, but overall, your instructions are probably not enough to force each child into their seats.  I predict something similar will happen with Making Our School […]

This year, students have begun to see the effects of the district’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy, which encourages students to bring their personal devices, such as laptops and tablets, to school with the expectation that they will use them daily in classes. The old model relied on providing MacBook and Chromebook carts to […]

Fearful, crushed and remorseful, Brittney Griner, one of the WNBA’s greatest talents, spoke through the bars of her prison cell. As she apologized for her illegal possession of four vape cartridges containing hash oil in Russia, her eyes repeatedly drooped to the ground, her voice monotone with utter defeat. Tightly clutching the bars of the […]

Classrooms’ temperatures are never in the Goldilocks zone; too often, they’re cold. Stupidly cold.  When the heatwave reached its height at around 110 degrees Farenheit in the days following Labor Day, I’d gone to school wearing shorts and a T-shirt, preparing for the days of pain in the heat. Instead, I found myself in freezing […]

On Aug. 31, the FDA approved updated booster shots in an effort to mitigate threats posed by new Omicron variants. Despite this, many Americans aren’t scheduling their boosters and seem to have dismissed COVID-19 as no longer a threat. This past summer was filled with travel and social get-togethers — after two years of COVID-19 […]

In 2017, more than half of eligible need-based aid applicants in 10 states, including Illinois and Delaware, did not receive any financial support for college. The students in those states are not alone: In the same year, more than 900,000 qualified financial aid applicants in the U.S. were turned away due to a lack of […]

Depression is fake. Women are powerless. They bear responsibility for rape, and most importantly, they belong to men.  These are all opinions viral influencer Andrew Tate shares. To say his takes are controversial (and wrong) is a blatant understatement, but controversy is precisely what he aims for — and what has made him rich. Tate […]

As someone who lives on a street right by the school, I was fuming when I found cars blocking nearly half my driveway not once, not twice, but five times in the past week. People took their sweet time with three-point turns, parents stayed for over half an hour while waiting to pick up their […]

Most of us don’t ever think of California as a state rife with poverty, but in reality, it has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation. According to a Census Bureau Report, that number hovered around 15.4% between 2018 and 2020, close to 6 million people.  This astoundingly high number of impoverished people […]