Tyler Jones
February 15, 2019
Filed under Front Slideshow, Satire
It is 8:00 in Grady’s unpaved student parking area. Drivers begin pulling in to the dusty gates of the dirt lot, awaiting the 8:30 a.m. bell to welcome them to another day at school.
But students have found more than just early-morning music blasting from this dusty plot; some drivers have noticed intense changes in the lot’s landscape, from sinking pits of mud to ...
Editorial Board
February 11, 2019
Filed under Board Editorials, Comment
In light of recent events concerning girl's varsity cheerleading team at Grady, several outside news organizations hastily took the lead and published th...
Abby Peters, Comment section editor
February 8, 2019
Filed under Comment
Any Grady high school student can attest to the fact that the bathrooms are poorly maintained, whether it be a lack of paper towels or toilet paper, a broken stall lock, a clogged toilet or a missing bathroom sink. Although this problem is widely recognized, little can be done given Grady’s annual operating budget.
For the 2019-2020 school year, the proposed budget for...
February 1, 2019
Corporal punishment in schools is inhumane, discriminatory, and ineffective. When most people think of corporal punishment, a form of discipline involving ...
Joe Earles, Writer
January 31, 2019
Filed under Head to Head, Uncategorized
In just four months, Grady’s seniors will step onto the graduation stage and out of high school. For the first time in the lives of the class of 2019, we’ll be let free to pursue higher education and careers. Leaving high school is a thrilling time, but this isn’t a transition that comes without fear.
Ironic as it may seem, the fear of failure always comes with this ability to fi...
Kiki Soto, Comment Managing Editor
January 31, 2019
Filed under Head to Head, Uncategorized
Only about 1.2 percent of college freshmen chose to take a gap year before college, according to a 2012 study by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. This means that almost 99 percent of graduating seniors pursuing higher education decided to start their higher education directly after graduating high school. The financial burden, loss of educational momentum, ...
Kiki Soto, Joe Earles
January 31, 2019
Filed under Comment
Gap years taken after graduating high school provide advantages and disadvantages for students.
Annie Laster
January 25, 2019
Filed under Comment, Front Slideshow
The United States is not well known for its language diversity. Even though many high schools and universities require languages to be taught, there is no national law mandating foreign languages be taught in schools. This seems like a disadvantage, as one in five Americans speaks a second language at home. The US is also linguistically diverse through immigration, and over 3...
January 25, 2019
My previous years at school were a struggle, but nothing compared to the daily grind of the first semester of senior year. College applications piled up, ...
January 15, 2019
During Gov. Brian Kemp's inauguration on Jan. 14 2019 on the Georgia Tech campus he seemed to shift his entire persona and message platform from the c...
Kamryn Harty, Online Comment Section Editor
January 9, 2019
Filed under Comment, Front Slideshow
Scrolling through my Instagram feed, I see the usual: girls rigidly posing for selfies in the mirror, group pictures of teens clutching red Solo Cups ...
