Anti-vaccination movement dangerous
Kalyssa Boyle, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2018
The anti-vaccine movement around the world is causing diseases once thought defeated, but today those diseases are again reclaiming victims. The anti-vaccine movement is dangerous. One of the claims the anti-vaccine movement makes is that vaccines can cause autism, also known as ASD (Autism Spectrum Diso...
Nov. 26 should have been snow day
Cody Conger, Staff Reporter
November 28, 2018
Sunday morning you wake up to the wind howling and the power in your house not working. You look outside to see a blizzard billowing and covering everything in a blanket of ice. Around noon the power is restored and everything goes back to normal as the blizzard dies down. All you can think to yourself...
Not voting should not be shameful
Kalyssa Boyle, Staff Reporter
November 12, 2018
Voting is a very important right, one that soldiers and civilians alike have fought and died for. However, shaming people for not voting should not be okay. There are six amendments to the Constitution dealing directly with voting, the 15th and 19th, which are the most notable due to the civil righ...
Teachers shouldn’t give homework to students
McKena McBride, Staff Reporter
October 30, 2018
While some may believe that giving students homework is helpful to their education, it is damaging to their mental health. Finland is the country with the top student scores in the world. Their students are given no homework. Finnish students go to school between 9:00-9:45 a.m., and go home by...
Gun rights should be honored in America
Cody Conger, Staff Reporter
October 16, 2018
The Second Amendment should be honored, and we should all have the ability to holster arms in our own homes but with some restrictions. If we place restrictions who can purchase and get their hands on firearms, then we can reduce a lot of the trouble present in America. While the U.S. loosely denies access t...
Hate speech not protected by First Amendment
Kalyssa Boyle, Staff Reporter
October 3, 2018
Hate speech should not be protected by the First Amendment. The definition of “hate speech” by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is speech expressing hatred of a particular group of people. Many say that hate speech, although extremely racist or homophobic, is protected by the First Amendment. However,...
Freewill is an illusion
Addie Braun, Staff Reporter
September 27, 2018
By definition freewill is, “made or done freely of one’s own accord; voluntarily,” but, what if it doesn’t even exist? From the moment we begin to understand the people surrounding us, we are impressionable. We don’t know any differently than what they tell us because we are so young that we aren...
Edge superior to other browsers
Kalyssa Boyle, Staff Reporter
September 13, 2018
While Google Chrome may be what teachers and administration urge students to use, Microsoft Edge has more advantages to the everyday student. Edge has the immediate advantage of the easily accessible “Hub” that contains “Favorites, Reading List, Books, History, and Downloads” with large icons...
Board of Education should not purchase Chromebooks for next school year
Alicia Feyerherm, Staff Reporter
April 26, 2018
Next school year, Hays High will be getting new devices to replace the Surface 3s. One replacement option is a Chromebook. However, if the Board of Education were to choose Chromebooks, it would be a mistake. First of all, Chromebooks run on their own operating system. They do not support any Windows...
Global warming evidence hard to ignore
Isabelle Braun, Staff Reporter
April 9, 2018
As freshmen, students are tasked with a project over climate change in Integrated Science. This project gives students a chance to better form opinions on whether they believe in climate change or not. However, not believing in climate change is hard to do. According to Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: Evidence,...
25-minute lunches should be commonplace
Lacey Gregory, Editor-in-Chief
March 15, 2018
Many teachers give up five minutes of their third hour class period to add to students’ already-short lunchtime, bringing the lunch period to a whopping total of 25 minutes. However, it has recently been rumored that 20-minute lunches will become required in all classes. This standard is not realistic...
Pressure to choose career stressful for teenagers
Rebekah Porter, Staff Reporter
February 9, 2018
Elementary school children and younger are constantly being told to think about a career. This can be a stressful thing for a kid, not knowing what they want to do, yet being pressured to decide on something even though they aren’t ready for it. We need to stop demanding definitive answers from stud...
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