By Madison Dymond and Milan Polk ’16 Yesterday, Montgomery County officials decided to close schools next week due to a 70-percent chance of one inch of snow. Fairfax County in Virginia canceled, making the decision to cancel classes two days earlier. In the past, MCPS has been met with opposition to its late cancellations and poor judgment in the face … Read More
By Maya Koeppen ’17 After a generation criticized for being lazy, self-absorbed and entitled, many anxiously await what a new generation, those born during the mid 2000s, will bring. Although they have yet to be officially named (at most, they’re tentatively called Generation Z), this generation is slowly beginning to define themselves through their ideologies and their dependence on technology … Read More
Millennials might appear an inherently flawed group of individuals. They are seemingly idealistic to the point where they are unrealistic, self-confident to the point of arrogance, empathetic to the point where they feel too much but think too little and optimistic to the point of narcissism. However, Millennials’ disproportionate share of negative values does not mean that they represent the … Read More
By Maya Koeppen ’17 Every high school student in MCPS is required to take a credit worth of art, but quite frankly, it should be a little more than that. The average student spends hours in a single school day listening to lectures and reading from textbooks, all the while absorbing the thoughts of others rather than cultivating their own. … Read More
By Ryan Deal ’16 Everyone knows of Twitter, the hugely successful social media site that connects people worldwide all in a “Twittersphere.” Twitter largely came to be known for its brief “tweets,” publicly displayed messages from a user that capped off at 140 characters. The character limit was unique, and these quick-hitting messages provided a speedier fix for today’s hyperactive … Read More
By Madison Dymond ’16 With exams coming up, there is one thing that is vital to ensure students’ success: motivation. It is the thing they need the most and the thing they can never seem to get. The brain capacity of a student means nothing if they are not motivated to learn and study the material. Exams are memory tests. … Read More
By Isabella Pilot ’18 If you could describe 2015 in one word, what would it be? For the staff of the Oxford dictionary, the words lumbersexual, refugee, and on fleek came to mind, but the “word” that triumphed over them all isn’t a word at all. With over 171,000 words in the English language, the ‘Face With Tears of Joy’ … Read More
By Josh Averbach ’18 With a refugee crisis in the Middle East, wealthy Persian Gulf states should accept refugees to alleviate the vast amount fleeing to other countries. Syria’s ongoing civil war has prompted more than 11 million people to flee the war-torn nation, according to the humanitarian organization Mercy Corps. Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey have received more refugees … Read More
By Megan Werden ’17 Last year for the first time Sherwood students, along with other MCPS high school students, took the PARCC assessment for Algebra 1, Algebra 2 and English 10. Sherwood test-takers did significantly worse than the MCPS average. In Algebra 1, only eight percent of the school’s test-takers received a passing or excelling score, 19.8 percent for Algebra … Read More
By Morgan Hill ’16 At the beginning of this school year, the Level 1 ESOL class had 15 students enrolled in it, following the recommendation to have 15 or fewer students in ESOL classes. Yet, by the month of December, the number of students in the class had more than doubled, and there were 37 students enrolled in the class. … Read More