On the first day of my freshmen year, my expectations for high school had been crafted by stories from my older sister, John Hughes’s movies, and bad television shows. I thought that high school would...
Nationwide, legislation restricting how schools teach racism and the history of the United States has made teachers’ jobs more difficult while devaluing students’ education, Jeannie Logan, Social Studies...
I remember the exact moment I thought we had finally made it to the end of the pandemic.
Newly vaccinated and unmasked, I was seeing A Quiet Place II in theaters. It felt freeing, that life would return...
District 225 is expanding its communication department in an effort to better interact with the community and to provide information to parents more easily, Interim Principal Dr. Rosanne Williamson said.
One...
As South looks to the future and prepares for school years to come, a newly released report forecasts a drop in the student population of several hundred students in the next 10 years, Associate Superintendent...
South students will once again test their math skills next week in the American Mathematics Competition (AMC), competing against students across the country, Phillip Gartner, Math Department instructional...
South students will once again test their math skills next week in the American Mathematics Competition (AMC), competing against students across the country, Phillip Gartner, Math Department instructional...
As the calendar transitioned to Nov. 12, music services updated to show 30 new songs, marking the official return of Taylor Swift’s Red era. While fans have counted down the days until Red (Taylor’s...
After weeks of planning and building, South students presented their innovative science projects at South’s seventh STEM Maker Faire on May 19, Michael Sinde, career and technology education teacher...
Ever since I was little, I’ve had a deadly fear of needles. Visits to the doctor’s office were traumatizing, with memories of my fingers being pricked haunting me. Flu season was my own personal nightmare...
At the start of the second semester, South introduced a new weekly Covid-19 testing program capable of quickly processing the whole school, according to associate superintendent Dr. R.J. Gravel.
The process...
On Feb. 25, the House of Representatives passed monumental legislation while the Senate debated the possible confirmation of the highest ranking transgender American in government, demonstrating the social...
Trigger Warning: This column contains mention of suicide and depression
On Jan. 7th, the Glenbrook North administration informed students of the passing of senior Dylan Buckner. The news rocked our...
With 2020 crawling to an end, we are finishing a year that has left us no shortage of memories. From the relatively few highs to the litany of lows, these moments will be with us for a very long time.
As...
The start of the 2020 school year has felt like one everlasting finals week: high stakes, stressful, and all-consuming. A feeling of being overwhelmed has taken hold of my mind and it is called burnout.
As...
A new course option in the automotives department called Small Engines 161 was approved by the school board at a Jan. 27 meeting and will soon be available to students at South, according to Dawn Hall,...
Glenbrook South has implemented several changes to improve security on campus, such as bollards that provide a protective barrier, electronic locks, an ID scanning system, new paraprofessionals and the...
In late March, Tim Monahan, a physical education teacher, became the first South recipient of the High School Teacher of the Year Award given by the Northeastern District of the Illinois Association for...
On April 6, Glenbrook South’s Model United Nations (MUN) team hosted its fifth GBSMUN conference, which brought over 500 students from all over Chicago, as well as Brad Schneider, the U.S. representative...
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