By Stacey Wells ’15 Throughout history, summer has marked a period of growth, adventure and excitement for teens. Young adults have the power to choose their own daily schedules and do all those things they never had time for during the school year. Teenagers are ecstatic when they hear the bell ring for summer; they are ready to have adventures … Read More
By Madison Dymond ‘16 MCPS officials are planning to change the current sexual orientation curriculum taught in health classes. The topic of sexual orientation is normally taught in eighth grade, but there have been proposals to introduce the subject a year earlier. The county also wants to end scripted lessons, which became part of the curriculum in 2005 after a … Read More
By the time students graduate from an MCPS high school, they will have sat through at least five separate health courses, all of which teach them the dangers of drinking and emphasize the importance of staying sober throughout their high school and college lives. Although these health classes are put in place to keep students from drinking irresponsibly, they ultimately … Read More
By Samantha Schwartz ’16 Five seconds is the minimum amount of time a driver’s attention is taken away from the road when sending a text message while driving. When driving 55 mph, those five seconds are equivalent to driving the length of a football field without looking at the road. Distracted driving is an incredibly dangerous activity. According to the … Read More
By Leo Corman ’15 Matthew Parsons is a health teacher and track coach at Sherwood. Parsons attended college in Frostburg, Maryland. After teaching one semester at a middle school last year, Parsons entered the big leagues at the beginning of this school year. The Warrior sat down with Parsons and asked him how his first full year of teaching went. … Read More
By Leo Corman ’15 An impressive season for the girls’ lacrosse team came to an end on May 17 with an 11-8 loss to Catonsville in the state semifinal. The Warriors finished the season with a record of 13-2, going undefeated against county opponents. The Warriors fought hard against a tough Catonsville team that eventually lost to Severna Park in … Read More
By Haley Whitt ’15 Abnormal Psychology is not the first class that has been offered to students to take through Montgomery College, but it is one of the most interesting. For the first time, Abnormal Psychology will now be offered to Sherwood students. Although even the name of the course is intriguing, there are requirements students must meet in order … Read More
By Ankur Kayastha ’15 The University of Maryland at College Park became a target of a cyber-security threat on February 19 and nearly 300,000 personal student and faculty records were compromised. The records that had been breached by a sophisticated computer virus contained names, social security numbers, dates of birth and university identification numbers. To compensate for the data breach, … Read More
By Lauren Cosca ’15 Boys’ lacrosse lost 20-5 in the North Region Finals against Howard, after beating Blake 13-5 and Blair 20-7 in the first two rounds of the playoffs. The team concluded their season with an overall record of 6-8. “We started the game [against Howard] pretty well, but after the first quarter it all started to fall apart,” … Read More
By Annie Feinroth ’15 and Hunter Moore ’15 This school year, Maryland public schools implemented a new mandatory concussion procedure for every athlete who is trying out for a school sports team. All athletes had to take an online baseline concussion test to assess functioning so that there is point of comparison in case a suspected concussion occurs. The test … Read More