By Michael Crooks ’14 MCPS require students to acquire 75 SSL hours to graduate high school. Seventy-five hours of community service is attainable, especially considering that students have roughly seven years to complete the community service. However, for many high school students, especially athletes, community service becomes more of a burden than a rewarding experience. During their respective sport’s season, … Read More
By Kyle Melnick ‘14 and Whitney-Marie Halaby ‘14 Sports Benefit Students On and Off the Field Amanda Ripley of The Atlantic magazine wants to deemphasize the role of sports in high school so less money and time are spent on them and presumably so fewer students participate in sports. She claims they are a distraction and negatively affect both student-athletes’ and … Read More
In recent years, it has become routine for students to memorize facts and be assessed immediately. Students memorize events for history courses, equations for math courses and vocabulary for English and foreign language courses in order to maintain their grades. Students likely are divided on this approach to learning. While some credit their strong memories for allowing them to memorize … Read More
By Stacey Wells ‘15 When I walk down Sherwood hallways, I see cheating everywhere. Students copying each other’s papers, students looking up answers on their smartphones, students making cheat sheets. I can’t help but think that nearly everyone is cheating. Actually, almost everyone is cheating. In a study performed in February 2011, 43,000 public and private school students were surveyed … Read More
By Kelsey Morison ’14
By Joy Zhang ’14 From the beginning of the school year to October 23, 21 teachers have confiscated 49 phones at Sherwood. According to a log that is kept in the main office, this number is comparable to last year’s 54 phone confiscations in the same timeframe. If the pattern continues, there may be as many as 222 phone confiscations … Read More
By Meagan Barrett ’15 Ever since the GT programs in elementary school, there’s always been this push to make students take advanced courses. But eventually, it stops being special, and starts being expected. Being in “on grade level”courses labels students as stupid compared to everyone else, because they’re not ahead of where you’re supposed to be. Once you reach high … Read More
By Michael Natelli ’14 Last Monday, leaders from nearly 200 countries met in Warsaw, Poland, to being the 19th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 19). There’s no question it’s the most important one yet, and you don’t need to be a “tree-hugger” to realize so. The catastrophic typhoon in the … Read More
By Vicky Florian ’14 In Washington State, two Gonzaga University students were living in an off-campus apartment, owned by the school, when one night a man came to their door demanding money. The man was a convicted felon and became frustrated as the students refused to pay. Feeling threatened as the man attempted to enter the apartment, one student retrieved … Read More
By Joy Zhang ’14 On September 25, the Center for Biological Diversity gave the public a chilling message, “Montana only has 625 wolves left after last year’s killing season. Not satisfied with the massacre, the state has lined up 10 times as many rifles as there are wolves to finish the job.” The hunting season began September 7 and is … Read More