BREAKING NEWS Congratulations to Grady High School's class of 2013!                                               Six Southerner staffers earn 2013 Civic Journalism Awards                                               Josie Duffy, Grady class of 2005 and Harvard class of 2013, was a speaker at Harvard's commencement. Congrats to Harvard's class of '13.                                               Former Atlanta Public Schools Chief Information Officer indicted for accepting $60,000 in kickbacks

  • Alumnus delivers memorable speech at 2013 Harvard Law commencement

    Josie Duffy, Class of 2005, spoke at Harvard University’s 362nd Commencement held on Thursday, May 30. She was one of two law school graduates of  the more than 700 in the Harvard Law School Class of 2013, to speak at the ceremony. She used the opportunity to urge her classmates to “embrace the grey area,” and be not only lawyers but [...]

  • Testing procedures face heightened scrutiny after indictment

    Anyone who observed an APS school in late April and early May might have noticed something unusual: empty hallways, patrolling administrators and thousands of focused students filling in small bubbles on mass-produced answering documents. Across APS, April 23 to May 13 is the three-week period designated for students to stop learning, for teachers to stop teaching, and for standardized tests [...]

    Testing procedures face heightened scrutiny after indictment

  • Local lawyer fights for the underdog

    On a sunny April Tuesday, in a procession of unnecessary black umbrellas and hidden faces, 35 former Atlanta Public Schools employees filed into the Fulton County Courthouse. This parade consisted of teachers, administrators and other officials indicted in the largest standardized-test cheating scandal in U.S. history. The story has made national headlines for years, bringing embarrassment to a school district [...]

    Photo courtesy of David Tullis/Associated Press

  • Campus shines after Starbucks work day

    With raucous cheers of “Project” and “Together,” a Starbucks-sponsored service day at Grady began at 10 a.m. on April 27. The 1,404 workers who volunteered painted and remodeled large sections of the school, including the courtyard and bathrooms. Terri Vish, a Starbucks district manager who was largely responsible for organizing the project, said she and her team prioritized the bathrooms [...]

  • Georgia’s dropout rate recalculated, DOE attempts to make curriculum more relevant to students

    “I was honestly tired of everything,” former Grady student Morgan Rutledge said concerning her withdrawal from school. “Most of my good friends left the school anyways, so it just got really old and boring for me.” After making the decision to drop out, Rutledge joined the one million students—a quarter of the total high school student population—who drop out of [...]

    Georgia’s dropout rate recalculated, DOE attempts to make curriculum more relevant to students

  • Alum, APS teacher begins promising political career

    Physics teach Jeff Cramer remembers Matt Westmoreland as a “serious, conscientious and steady” student. There was one additional factor, however, that Cramer said made Westmoreland stand out even more: his email address. potus36@bellsouth.net Cramer explained how it stood for “President of the United States in 2036,” which is the first year Westmoreland is old enough to run for president. Westmoreland [...]

    Alum, APS teacher begins promising political career

  • Gay families hope for equality, access to federal benefits

    When junior Victoria Stuart’s father, a Baptist preacher, came out in Jacksonville, Fla., Stuart’s classmates at Trinity Christian Academy told her she would go to hell. Stuart was 3 years old. “The Bible says that man should not lie with another man and the woman should not lie with another woman and that that was an abomination,” she said. “In [...]

    Gay families hope for equality, access to federal benefits

  • Girls lacrosse team ends season with undefeated record

    Behind the rock solid goaltending of sophomore Billie Lavine, the Grady girls lacrosse team capped off a perfect 11-0 season last Thursday with a 9-1 thumping of Northgate at Grady Stadium. The lopsided victory came a day after Grady dispatched another visiting challenger, Dunwoody, 10-1. Prior to those home victories, the Lady Knights captured the Tilt Tournament championship at Northview [...]

    Girls lacrosse team ends season with undefeated record

  • Lady Knights beat Northwest Whitfield, advance to next round of state playoffs

    The girls varsity soccer team played Northwest Whitfield High School today in the first round of the state playoffs. The Lady Knights won 4-0 and advance to the next round.

    Junior Orli Hendler keeps her eyes on the ball after she heads it forward.

  • Students gather in memory of Alec Bruno

    A memorial service was held in the stadium yesterday to honor the passing of junior Alec Bruno. As students locked arms, poetry was read, songs were sung and stories were shared. In a speech, senior Joe Lavine reminded Grady’s student body that, “No, we can’t undo the tragedies that have occurred. But we can use them to inspire us to do [...]

    Students gather in memory of Alec Bruno

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Alumnus delivers memorable speech at 2013 Harvard Law commencement

Alumnus delivers memorable speech at 2013 Harvard Law commencement

June 5, 2013 at 11:27 am

Josie Duffy, Class of 2005, spoke at Harvard University’s 362nd Commencement held on Thursday, May 30. She was one of two law school graduates of  the more than 700...

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Every BODY is meant to do something exceptional

Every BODY is meant to do something exceptional

June 4, 2013 at 4:04 pm

Ever since I was young, I have been a large girl. I don’t say this to put myself down, and when I say it, I don’t mean that I am fat or exceptionally tall. I simply mean...

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Young Latino sings of our country’s future

June 16, 2013 at 9:07 pm

Something cool happened in San Antonio on Friday night. Before a rather unremarkable Game 4 of this year’s NBA Finals, a young boy named Sebastian De La Cruz trotted onto...

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    A whole new (virtual) world

    By Gilbert Young In the beginning, there was the Atari. Ever since, there was an increase in people who dub themselves...

    May 22, 2013 at 12:56 pm
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    Grow up, don’t grow a belly

    By Taylor-Noel Aziz One in 3 teenagers throughout the United States will be pregnant by age 19. Even though “making...

    May 22, 2013 at 12:16 pm
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    Civil rights must include gay marriage

    By Hannah Martin With the Supreme Court’s decision about gay marriage breathing down our back, you’ve...

    May 20, 2013 at 11:04 am

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Charli XCX evokes True Romance

Charli XCX evokes True Romance

May 22, 2013 at 11:58 am

  By Sequoyah Murray I am an extremely nostalgic person, and with that comes the ability for me to remember the exact place I was in when I first heard a song. The first...

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Strictly speaking, Hill knows “his stuff”

May 22, 2013 at 12:24 pm

By Nick Caamano Sitting at his desk chair waiting for his class to arrive, Kevin Hill, a 39-year-old music theory teacher, begins a normal day of music theory class.  As...