After a two-hour drive packed in a 15-passenger van with 12 students and their luggage, seniors and juniors from Brenda Gorsuch’s journalism class arrived at the Charlotte airport where they would depart for the 2013 National High School Journalism Convention in Boston Nov. 14-17. At the convention the students, including seniors Sierra Fender, Melissa White, Katie Miller, Shannon Miller, Suzanne ... Read More »
The Wingspan newspaper staff has decided, after 17 years of printing a seven issue, eight-page broadsheet style newspaper, to switch to a more reader-friendly news magazine. The first issue of the Wingspan was produced in 1982 under then adviser Mary Ellen O’Shields. The first issue was produced as a tabloid style newspaper until Martin Johnson, the 1996 editor-in-chief, decided to produce a more professional ... Read More »
In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour by 2015. In reality, such a move would ruin the chances of teenagers getting jobs and in the long run increase inflation, an unnecessary waste of time for Congress. It would ruin the U.S. economy. According to philly.com, ... Read More »
The principal’s voice sounded over the intercom alerting students and teachers that a Code Red lockdown drill was in progress. Teachers scrambled to turn out the lights in their classrooms and to follow all the required procedures as students clumped together in a corner. Since the school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, lockdown drills have become as much ... Read More »
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