Since our freshmen year, Wilde Lake has been our Ohana. Ms. Marcy Leonard ran events like Caturday Study Halls and Community Nights so students could connect with their community. This year, when we walked into the Lake, we felt directionless. With an emphasis on keeping the halls empty, there is no emphasis on maintaining our Ohana. The halls of a place we used to call home now feel foreign. We are...

Every year, Journalism is on the chopping block. With low enrollment in Journalism courses across the county, high school newspapers face class cut threats each year. This threat became a reality for Centennial. Centennial’s newspaper “The Wingspan” has been forced to run as a club due to low enrollment for the Journalism course. It is heartbreaking that the students of Centennial were put...

During a seven hour school day, sometimes all I need to do is use the bathroom, but to do that, I have to participate in a confusing and unnecessary system. Wilde Lake introduced a new bathroom system during the first week of May. Each bathroom is open for certain periods of the day and closed for the rest. The bathroom doors have been labeled with signs indicating what periods a bathroom is open....

What happens at the Board of Education (BOE) does not stay at the Board of Education. The decisions made at the Howard County BOE meetings directly impact you and me, especially when they have to do with the budget for our schools. My mom is a Howard County teacher, and I am involved with student government in Howard County as the head of Public Relations for HCASC. Hearing about these budget cuts...

The first thing I do after a long day at school is lay in bed, pull out my phone, and open an app. My habits started out responsibly, but soon forms of media like YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels led to an addiction. It was so easy to skip the videos I did not want to see and keep getting the ones I wanted. This led to endless scrolling, with my eyes plastered to my phone. Picking up my phone when...