The Globe

COVID-19 Cancellation to Last Until End of School Year

Siddhi Narayan, Chief Digital Editor • April 9, 2020

On April 9, 2020, Superintendent Sean Doherty announced that the School District of Clayton would join other districts in Missouri and close school until May 28 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The School...

COVID-19 Causes Cancellation

Cece Cohen and Angela Xiao • March 15, 2020

On Sunday, March 15, the School District of Clayton, along with 25 other school districts within the Greater St. Louis area announced that school would be cancelled because of COVID-19, beginning March...

What does it mean to be gifted?

Ivy Reed, Sofia Erlin, Disha Chatterjee, Ruthie Pierson, Siddhi Narayan, and Grace Snelling • March 14, 2020

BACKGROUND Although gifted services in the Clayton School District have seen numerous variations over the past 10 years, 2017 marked a new phase in the program. 70 percent of all identified gifted students...

Coronavirus Controversy

Yiyun Xu and Kaitlyn Tran • March 9, 2020

“[People] try to come up with reasons to psychologically protect themselves. In this case, I think they’re trying to blame the virus on China for Chinese people.” -- Lauren Sucher-O'Grady

disorder.

Noor Jerath, Siddhi Narayan, Sofia Erlin, Tiancheng Fan, and Kaitlyn Tran • March 9, 2020

intro. Your phone dings. It’s a text from your friend. “Want to go get food with me?” it reads. Your heart drops. You think back to earlier that day, to the donut you couldn’t stop yourself from...

Iowa Caucus Analysis

Tallulah Hawley • February 12, 2020

Typically, Iowa seems to remain dormant in the national news. That is, unless it is an election year. The first to have their primaries, the seemingly mundane state of Iowa holds their unique caucuses...

VAPE

Vivian Chen, Jimmy Malone, Sava Tamanaha, Lila Taylor, and Yiyun Xu • December 28, 2019

USERS Vaping. The popular trend, the dangerous epidemic, the social drug of the 21st century. The topic of dinner table talk. While teen cigarette use is at an all-time low, vaping has taken its place...

An Epidemic: Gun Violence in St. Louis

Ella Cuneo, Grace Snelling, Noor Jerath, Kaia Mills-Lee, Kaitlyn Tran, Emma Baum, and Shane LaGesse • December 10, 2019

Introduction On the night of Dec. 14, 2012, when parents should have been out shopping for the holidays and grabbing the week’s groceries, they instead found themselves gathered at the local firehouse,...

HB 126

December 10, 2019

In recent months, many states across the United States have introduced new policies regarding access to legal abortion. In light of Missouri HB 126, which would criminalize abortion if a fetus heartbeat...

A New Library Soon Too Come

Sam Smith, Reporter • December 3, 2019

On any given day, the library is packed full of visitors. Either paying chess soliciting or studying for an upcoming exam. Currently when you sit down the hard wooden desks. Your back screams in pain searching...

Clayton Conversations

Luka Bassnett and Sofia Erlin • November 1, 2019

“Not just at Clayton High School, but in the country, we have lost the ability to have respectful discourse, and intelligent dialogue around important topics,” said CHS principal Dan Gutchewsky. He...

Babes & Boos

Abby Hoelscher, Reporter • October 31, 2019

What do you know about Halloween? “It’s all about candy and uh, costumes. There’s a song I know, like spooky scary skeletons la la la la la… yeah that’s all I know.” -James “Trick-or-treating?...