After the start of junior year, the focus has gone more and more towards college. The question of where to go has become an icebreaker at formal dinner parties, a debate with family at the dinner table,...
I met a really nice guy at an academic program over the summer, and I thought right away that we were going to become great friends. But one day, at the breakfast table, he began to tell jokes about Jewish...
I have this habit of writing down things that my teachers say during class on the edges of my papers. At the end of the year, when I’m flipping through my notes to study for finals or look back on...
At my grandparents’ house for dinner a few nights ago, I was talking to my grandpa about college. I was worried about making the wrong decision, not doing enough in high school, and not getting...
He was singing. My little autistic brother was singing in the Meramec Elementary Choir with his fellow students. Finally we were hearing him sing the songs he had practiced routinely (usually while doing...
I caught a late train back from Chicago in August, and wound up waiting for a ride back home at the station in downtown St. Louis at 2:00 in the morning. Little me, pink duffel, dead phone.
My dad...
I caught a late train back from Chicago in August, and wound up waiting for a ride back home at the station in downtown St. Louis at 2:00 in the morning. Little me, pink duffel, dead phone.
My dad was...
It’s that time of the year. It’s spring, and more importantly, it’s also the season that I’ll be spending with the coveted title of “second-semester senior.â€
What,...
What defines a Clayton education?
Today, the School District of Clayton is seeking to answer this question through a comprehensive, five-month process called Clayton360 that will honor the history,...
One quarter gone. 11 weeks past. We’re now deep into the regular rhythm of school. We know the beat by heart – the measure of a class period, the accelerated tempo of assignments...
August is always a time of change, an annual period of transition, but this year seems special. There are so many pieces missing. Gay Field seemed somehow lacking last week as the football team practiced...
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