Editorial: Sick students should stay home
February 9, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Print Stories, Staff Editorials
Being sick does not always equate to staying home from school. Students can be seen — or rather, heard — in their classes sniffling and sneezing all throughout the period. Even if ill students make sure to wash their hands consistently and cover their mouths when they sneeze, they still pose the threat...
Editorial: Core 24 makes students stress more
December 28, 2017
Filed under Opinion, Staff Editorials
Graduation is often the central goal of a student's high school career. Whether one plans on attending a four-year college or joining the workforce right after senior year, acquiring a high school diploma is what much of a student's schooling has amounted to. However, with the introduction of a new g...
Editorial: The importance of counselors
November 18, 2017
Filed under Opinion, Print Stories, Staff Editorials
School counselors are a fundamental part of any high school. Yet, our school counselors are expected to supervise too many students — a responsibility that diminishes the individualized attention they can provide students. With the addition of a new grade this year, the school gained another counselor...
Editorial: Taking a gap year
June 12, 2017
Filed under Opinion, Showcase, Staff Editorials
After nearly two decades of school, it can become difficult to remember that life exists beyond the classroom. Taking on a four-or-more year degree after years of study is daunting. In order to have real-world experiences, it's important to step outside of the classroom, and taking a gap year in bet...
Editorial: Homelessness
March 17, 2017
Filed under Opinion, Print Stories, Staff Editorials
Homelessness is often viewed as an unsightly problem that many would rather ignore. With homelessness rates on the rise in Seattle, the city must change the way they address it. It is the city's moral obligation to rehabilitate and provide aid to the homeless rather than punish them. Recently, Seattle...
Editorial: Trump’s Muslim Ban
February 13, 2017
Filed under Opinion, Staff Editorials
President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban is a regression to racist authoritarianism that has marred America’s past, one that we thought had been left behind. The racist rhetoric of his campaign has become racist foreign policy, and his ignorance and apathy toward voters and the media in regards to many ...
Editorial: Self-care and stress
January 13, 2017
Filed under Opinion, Print Stories, Staff Editorials
Students are all too familiar with the frequent pressures of high school. Intense workloads plague students of all grade levels, causing stress and overall unhappiness. To maintain positive mental health, it’s beneficial to prioritize self-care over schoolwork. Self-care can mean many things: taking time ...
Editorial: protests lose sight of the issues
December 2, 2016
Filed under Opinion, Print Stories, Staff Editorials
In the wake of Donald Trump's election as President of the United States, the liberal United States exploded into protest; they could not believe that we, the people, could put a man like Donald Trump in the highest office in the land. Counter-intuitively, that outcry was diluted and delegitimatized ...
Editorial: the current state of education
October 31, 2016
Filed under Opinion, Print Stories, Staff Editorials
Technology is ever-present in our modern day lives; In school, we have Activboards, projectors and the all pervasive internet. With the opportunity to lean on those technologies to satisfy our education, the need to have teachers is in some ways obsolete - however, teachers are still, if not more so t...
Editorial: We aren’t that special
November 5, 2015
Filed under Opinion, Staff Editorials
It’s so ingrained into our collective conscious as to be indistinguishable from fact: things were worse, but they get better. Too often, we believe without question that history marches down a straight line toward the optimal world. Perhaps this way of thinking is justified; it creates optimism f...
Editorial: How we need to think about depression
April 9, 2015
Filed under Opinion, Print Stories, Staff Editorials
Depression is an illness that can be just as debilitating as any other, but it isn’t always perceived that way. While we unquestioningly sympathize with those who physically suffer, the public perception of emotional disorders like depression can prevent the same kind of sympathy; we just don’t v...
Editorial: Do not let numbers define self-worth
November 6, 2014
Filed under Opinion, Print Stories, Staff Editorials
It’s November. Say hello to pumpkin spice lattes, fall leaves crunching under boots and Washington rain. But, most of all, say hello to the official season of college application chaos and midterm grades. As many of us transform into large combustible balls of anxiety, we are confronted with numbers ...
November 15, 2018
The 2017 Monitoring the Future survey was conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan and collected data from 43,703 students at 360 public and private high schools...
