By Julia Gajewski-Nemes ‘15 Over the past couple of years, anxiety disorders and depression have presumably impacted more teenagers nationwide than ever before. While these mental illnesses need to be taken seriously and awareness of them has spread rapidly, social media websites such as Twitter, with pages such as “@cuttingquotes” and “@depressingthoughts,” and Tumblr, with blogs such as “depressingquotesforyou,” have … Read More
By Malkaiah Mehlek ’15 There you are in the doctor’s office. The doctor stares gravely at his clipboard, unable to make eye contact with you. What the hell is going on? You think. The doctor usually says by now that you’re healthy and to continue your habits of eating plenty of vegetables and participating in the marathons that you train … Read More
By Maya Koeppen ’17 In a society where nearly every teenager has a cellphone glued to his or her hip, the high school graduation requirement of a technology credit can easily be viewed as unnecessary. To satisfy the Maryland State Department of Education requirement, all MCPS students must obtain one technology credit. MCPS offers select state-approved courses consisting of, Foundations … Read More
Cartoon by Sidney Brown ‘17
The current MCPS agenda is designed to steer students towards college life. This curriculum’s emphasis on college-readiness is believed to help create efficient and productive students who will be well-prepared for a higher education. However, not all students are fit for a life on a college campus, and MCPS’s curriculum may not be preparing them for the real world. Should … Read More
Why do the majority of students join NHS? Do tutoring hour policies need to be changed? Should it make more of a difference in the Community? Students in the National Honor Society (NHS) are certainly academically talented students. To be considered for admittance into Sherwood’s NHS, students must have a 3.7 unweighted or 4.0 weighted GPA and provide evidence of … Read More
By Meagan Barrett ’15 For 13 straight years of American schooling, whether you truly understand and retain the content or not, you are pushed through classes that you may or may not excel at in order to keep up with the ever-competitive “standard.” As the United States education system has progressed, it has developed this obsession with encouraging—or pushing, really—students … Read More
By Jack Armstrong ’15 San Francisco based startup Uber, a taxi service which offers luxury sedans to riders from an app on their smartphone, has been under attack by major cities around the world, most recently Toronto, for operating ‘illegally’ by offering non-licensed taxi drivers in unmarked cars to riders. Since its founding in 2012, the San Francisco based company … Read More
By Steven Witkin ’16 Recently, global resource sustainability has evolved from a casual consideration to an urgently relevant issue, spawning government agencies and studies dedicated to finding out how to delay the exhaustion of resources. There have been numerous efforts to reduce resource consumption, yet most of these developments and attitudes have not reached schools, especially involving the consumption of … Read More
By Zachary Stubblefield ’15 Do not be afraid to use black as a descriptor. Far too often people tip-toe over someone’s skin color like it is sacrilege to point it out. They fear that if they refer to someone by their skin tone and ethnicity, they’ll be labeled as racist. That is such as unnecessary taboo; all it does is … Read More