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LEARNING TO LISTEN: Fourth graders from Mvita Primary School in Mombasa, Kenya, build math and public speaking skills through interactive games and a debate.

Forming connections in Kenya

Zoha Suteria, co-opinions editor
October 4, 2024

In a lively classroom, where the chatter of eager fourth graders echoes off the faded yellow walls, and the scent of chalk lingers in the warm air, I learned a lesson that no textbook could ever teach;...

Illustration by Rhanda Halawah

Changes to curriculum have “chilling effect” on teachers

Connor Fondrevay-Bedell, asst. news editor
March 18, 2022

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...

District 225 starts search for new principal

Hafsa Rahman, asst. news editor
November 12, 2021

A new South principal will be selected by February 2022 with the help of the newly recruited search firm Ray and Associates, Inc., District 225 Superintendent Dr. Charles Johns said. Interim Principal...

Avid Adventurer: Bryan Scheffler hikes through the Porcupine Mountains.

“We are abandoning the noble pursuit of seeking out genuine, natural experience”

Bryan Scheffler, Guest Columnist
June 3, 2021

It had been several days since we started trekking into the Porcupine Mountains. The unrelenting rain and crashing thunder made us weary. Every tired step in our water-logged boots, our heavy packs exacerbating...

Oracle After Hours: District 34 Looks to Enhance Educational Experience Through Building Renovations

Oracle After Hours: District 34 Looks to Enhance Educational Experience Through Building Renovations

Noah Walch, web editor
October 30, 2019

We’re all in high school now. From seniors in their fourth year to freshmen still making their way through their first semester, we are all learning in the same building. And sometimes, I think, we take...

Prevalence of sexual assault calls for teaching consent

Prevalence of sexual assault calls for teaching consent

November 12, 2018

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was recently appointed to the Supreme Court after confirmation hearings that confronted sexual assault allegations made against Kavanaugh. His nomination and subsequent...

Seniors pursue future education majors in college

Katie Cavender, senior editor
May 26, 2017

While the stereotypical high school senior is excited to graduate and move on from their school, many South seniors are exceptions to this rule. Instead of striving to pursue careers away from the school...

Career and Technology Department creates alternative course to fulfill Consumer Education requirement

Gigi Cepeda and Anushka Kalra
March 22, 2016

Diversified Cooperative Education (DCE) is a course for juniors and seniors that fulfills the Consumer Education requirement and focuses on workplace skills and job opportunities and will...

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