The Official Newspaper of Marblehead High School
About 80 percent of schools in the United States start their school day before eight in the morning, including many schools here in Marblehead, but teachers and students alike agree that this is much too early. A school should open its doors no earlier than 8:30 am, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine,…
The life of a high school student is a messy combination of exams, extracurriculars, and expectations. For many students, there is a constant pressure to participate in the “authentic” high school experience, which usually includes some mixture of sports, theater, volunteering, work, parties, or just hanging out. The time that is not spent engaging in…
Since 2013, America has suffered from nearly 300 school shootings. In other words, there has been an average of at least one school shooting per week for the past five years. Quite clearly, the signs that read, “This is a Gun Free Campus,” are neither preventing nor stopping such carnage. America needs change. While stricter…
The United States houses about 25% of the world’s inmates. With mass incarceration being at a high of 2 million, the system is bound to break. With the Kalief Browder story, it truly did. The Criminal Justice system’s duty is to give someone due process; they failed to implement that for Kalief Browder, a bronx…
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The Parkland shooting has left many students distraught and fearful. Classrooms, places meant to be for education, are now considered in terms of what construction materials, location of chairs, and desks will protect students against an attack. Students around the country witnessed shooting after shooting devastate families. We all can think about the lives that…
The objective of a schooling system is to educate its students in a variety of different subjects, the most obvious being math, science, history, and English. However, children are also sent to school to learn how to communicate and work well with others, skills necessary throughout all stages of life. It would seem that group…
Our government cannot respond to the climbing death toll and irreversible loss engineered by mass shootings by honoring victims and failing to act. This is not a time for passivity, but one that demands action. In December of 2012, twenty children and six adults were killed in Newtown Connecticut at the Sandy Hook Elementary School….
If you haven’t seen the new film, The Shape of Water, I suggest that you do, but not for the reason that you think. I don’t know if I have ever seen as strange a movie as this one, and that’s saying a lot coming from me. So what really gets me is the fact…
Many people not a part of the black community wonder why Marvel’s Black Panther movie has been receiving so much attention. What is not seen and understood is that the release of this movie is a historical event. Now you may ask, ‘why is this movie so special?’ ‘There are other ‘black movies’ in Hollywood,…