Naomi Grant, Arts & Life Editor
• October 31, 2014
When anyone finds out you’re a senior, the nearly inevitable question is, “Where do you want to go to college?” I assume most people expect to hear from a Beachwood student either a nationally-renowned...
The Smart Snacks in Schools program, the latest federal government crusade against childhood obesity, is a well-intentioned policy that may positively impact American children. However, like many educational...
The student-parent handbook for the 2014-2015 school year, as published on the Beachwood City Schools website, describes the student dress code as follows:
“Head coverings of any kind, with the exception...
Tattoos, body piercings and painting and even the very clothing we wear -- broadly speaking: “personal expression,” a concept that teenagers are overwhelmingly willing to embrace. However, how often...
The school dress code is often arbitrary, suppressive and poorly communicated with the student body. It also seems to be enforced for all of the wrong reasons.
The first problem with the dress code...
District administrators have made a series of moves in recent years to make the district more competitive with other schools: increasing AP enrollment with the result of improved national rankings, the...
Naomi Grant, Arts & Life Editor
• September 1, 2014
Dear freshmen,
I went to my sister’s eighth grade graduation ceremony. I watched adults who graduated from high school decades ago give her class the same cliche advice that every adult gives, so...
We interact with custodians, the lunch staff, bus drivers, substitute teachers and secretaries every day. Maybe not as frequently as with our peers and teachers, and they do not have the same kind of overarching...
As we race out the door to the exciting destinations that our summer will take us, the joy that comes from our new found freedom from school for ten weeks is diluted by the fact that we are not really...
It may be reasonable for students to have less policy-making power than adults, due to their relative immaturity. What is not reasonable is that students get no voice at all.
In the vast road experience I have had since I first started learning to drive two summers ago (besides the 15 years I had spent looking out the window before that) I have experienced many stupid drivers...
As student council elections and spirit week approach, students brace themselves for a torrent of appeals aimed at increasing school spirit. Pleas from sports captains to attend their games are often met...
