Every time November rolls around I have mixed feelings. The weather is nice, there are plenty of short weeks, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. But there’s this ever-looming event on my mind:...
Buzz cuts
Hitting fruit-flavored vapes
Unironically using the laughing emoji
Sports betting
Being on the beacon staff (but pu next interest meeting room 205 on 3/24)
Wannabe Sound Cloud...
For those who don’t know, senioritis is a crippling condition in which second semester seniors no longer feel obligated to arrive on time, let alone attend class. They often make up excuses about being...
First off, I get it, ok? You’ve gone through eleven and a half years of school, it’s easy for the last five or six months to feel pointless. I mean, who can blame you for your missing assignments once...
After years of sports titles and academic achievements, you’d think that our school would be more spirited than it is. As a high school that dominates in pretty much every field, where is our enthusiasm?
Before...
Whenever DCPS tries to solve a problem, they always seem to go about it in the strangest ways.
The most recent example of this is the new MacArthur school, which is an attempt to reduce the student...
For those members of the Jackson-Reed community that haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing our new trailers, I’m here to paint you a picture.
After hearing so much commotion over the new trailers...
Going into junior year, I did not know what to expect from the Advanced Placement (AP) courses I had chosen to take. Before then, my experience with the College Board had been limited to the practice SAT...
The Grammys have been running for almost seven decades and still have 12.4 million viewers. They clearly need to cater to as many audiences as possible—but this year, very few viewers were left satisfied....
Jackson-Reed’s recent network change from the previous system, iBoss and Gaggle, to Lightspeed Systems frightens us.
Like Gaggle, Lightspeed filters the content that devices on the network can search...
Jackson-Reed is just one of the thousands of schools in this country that caters to white students. Its issues are not unique, but that does not mean they aren’t urgent.
Many of the spaces at these...
What a year it's been. Many of us spent our first year of high school glued to a screen. I can still recall the tiresome feeling of getting up at 9 a.m. every day, opening my laptop, clicking "Join meeting,"...
