Why Pay for College?
Ramya Raja, Staff Writer
May 19, 2017 • 46 views
Filed under Editorial/Opinion, Showcase
For thirteen years of their lives, most children who go to school are blessed enough to not have to pay a penny for their education. Public elementary, middle, and high schools cost nothing directly to parents who seek to give their children an education. If this is the case for most childrens’ thirteen...
The Gifted Girl – Stereotypes in the School System
Holley Murray, Staff Writer
January 25, 2017 • 206 views
Filed under Editorial/Opinion, Showcase
We live in a world where prejudice based on gender is nothing outside of what is normal – from wage gaps to social beauty expectations, societal stereotypes influence the way women and men coexist. One place that few recognize as a breeding ground for gender stereotypes is the classroom; starting as...
Forsyth County Teacher Aide Fired
Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
October 11, 2016 • 199 views
Filed under News, Showcase
As of Monday, Oct. 3, Jane Wood Allen, a teacher aide in Forsyth Country, was fired from Chestatee Elementary School for racist comments directed towards Michelle Obama posted on Facebook. Allen’s most controversial post called First Lady, Michelle Obama, a “gorilla”, a word with historical...
Why All These Classics?
Bella Angell, Staff Writer
May 2, 2016 • 245 views
Filed under Editorial/Opinion, Showcase
A topic that many teens talk about is what books are being required to read in school. Pretty much all of the books are classics. There are many high schoolers who despise reading, so they have a smaller chance of being successful in school. If a few young-adult novels were introduced to school reading...
What is Wrong With the Public School System?
Julie Day, Staff Writer
April 21, 2016 • 217 views
Filed under Editorial/Opinion, Showcase
Diversity is something highly stressed in the public school system and for good reason. Society is constructed with the hands of variety, and that does not stop at education. Classrooms are filled with individuals who learn in different ways, and their education should not be the same. School systems...
North Forsyth Microsoft Acheivements
Tiffany Lovell, Staff Writer
May 15, 2015 • 526 views
Filed under Features, Showcase
Congratulate this year’s students that have received the last certificate of the Microsoft Certification. An exact amount of one-hundred and twenty students achieved their certificate this year thanks to their marvelous teacher Dr. LeShea. These certificates state that the students whom attended the...
Why the Human Race Needs to Help the Bees
Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
March 11, 2015 • 453 views
Filed under Editorial/Opinion, Showcase
With so many animals in the world, it is difficult to comprehend that an entire ecosystem—in fact, a entire world—could be so delicate to dependent upon one taxon of creatures, a group called the pollinators. Pollinators—from butterflies to wasps to hummingbirds—propel the environmental and agricultural...
10 Female Scientists We Never Learned About
Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 3, 2015 • 805 views
Filed under Features, Showcase
Men have almost always dominated the field of science in every degree. Women who partook in scientific pursuits were not considered valuable to their male counterparts or did not receive credit for the contributions that they made. The idea that students of North Forsyth High School, or any school for...
The Future of Tomorrow
Citlali Arzate, Staff Writer
May 7, 2014 • 1,355 views
Filed under Editorial/Opinion, Showcase
School is supposed to be a learning environment, a place where students can grow and develop their knowledge as well as life skills, however, is that really the case? “We’re trying to put in place the ingredients so that every child can be a successful 35-year-old. It’s not really about getting...
Russki Tourists
Ben Strube, Online and Design Editor
March 25, 2014 • 888 views
Filed under Raider Click
A Look into the Future
Aleigh Guerndt, Staff Writer
February 25, 2014 • 3,167 views
Filed under Editorial/Opinion, Showcase
“What am I going to do after high school?” “Should I even apply to colleges?” “Why am I even in high school?” These are all valuable questions that high school students ask themselves during their four years here. I, being a high school student myself, have also pondered these questions. ...
Is it Helpful, or a Hurdle?
Jack Dalmolin, Staff Writer
February 25, 2014 • 688 views
Filed under Features, Showcase
It has happened to everybody at some point in their lives: stacks of homework and notes piled up higher than Mt. Everest keep them awake until they hear the beeping of their dreaded alarm clock. Soda and energy drinks helped them survive the sleepless night, but promise a devastating crash during the...
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Jerry was a fidgety man with a face that made people nervous to look at--not because it was intimidating by any means, but because of a characteristic twitching of the corner of his ...
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