The American Education System is a deeply flawed institution that, due to its long-standing use as a tool wielded by industrialists to create workers, does not take into account the health of its students...
Every August, a new class of Sperry-stepping, Patagonia-sporting students strut through the doors of CHS into what will be one of their many experiences with the “Gilded Zip Code.”These students, the majority of whom are the offspring of mid- and upper-level professionals are fortunate enough to be born into the gilded zip code — an area of good neighborhoods, families and economic status. Residents of the gilded zip code believe in hard work and merit, but as their consolidation of wealth grows
Ellie Tomasson, Chief Managing Editor
• November 29, 2015
Every year, students across America participate in the national frenzy to obtain the proverbial holy grail of our education system: the 4.0 GPA, 36 ACT, and 2400 SAT, but at what cost? As students scramble...
An education opens doors.
Charlie Harned, CHS class of 2012, created the Anything is Possible Education Foundation while a student at Knox College. Now, he helps promote and foster academic achievement...
As I walk down the English hallway at CHS, seeing a myriad of quotes etched into the glass doors, one by Mark Twain sticks in my mind: “I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education.”
This...
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.â€
These words, once spoken by Albert Einstein, would likely be doubted by most present-day American...
The Clayton High School PTO organized and invited Clayton parents and students to attend a movie screening of “Two Million Minutes: The Documentary†to raise awareness regarding the current...
Cheaper, purer, and more available than ever before, heroin is moving on from the cities. Now, with St. Louis County under siege, officials are taking action.
The statistics don’t lie: heroin use...
Despite the build-up and controversy that has surrounded Obama’s speech directed at American students that took place on Sept. 8, the speech was remarkably devoid of political leanings and certainly...
