Cassidy Reddig is a 25 year old from Ephrata with a passion for pushing herself in all fields. This past year, she joined the teaching staff of McCaskey High School as an honors and IB history teacher. In high school, Reddig took every higher level class available to her, participating in swimming and soccer, but her main focus has always been teaching. “I wanted to … Continue reading Cassidy Reddig: Ephrata Athlete to McCaskey Teacher
Image Credit: MSC Photographer McCaskey cheerleaders are the school’s pride and joy when it comes to getting our crowd fired up and having school spirit. Sadly, McCaskey will have 12 senior cheerleaders leaving us this year. A few of them gave their thoughts and experiences on what it’s like being a McCaskey cheerleader. As students who represent McCaskey in and out of school, cheerleaders know … Continue reading Saying Goodbye to McCaskey’s Senior Cheerleaders
If you’re a McCaskey student, teacher, or community member, chances are that you have heard of the IB diploma. The internationally recognized program allows students to take college courses while in high school and “aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help create a better and more peaceful world.” Students who decide to pursue this path will graduate with an additional diploma, … Continue reading The Complex Nature of the IB Diploma Program
The 2021-22 school year at McCaskey High School has gotten off to a chaotic start, to say the least. We’ve had bathrooms closed off with spiderwebs of masking tape, broken pipes, sewage problems, and hallways smelling like poop. We’ve had haphazard announcements from the administration explaining new policies. Why? Because of “devious licks.” The “devious licks” trend began on September 1st, 2021, when a student … Continue reading TikTok Trend Plagues Campus with Chaos and Confusion
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, the entire McCaskey student body came back to school. The conditions were far from ideal: the Coronavirus pandemic, once thought by administrators, teachers and students alike to be a two-week stint, was far from gone. Cases of the virus had been steadily increasing amidst the new and more dangerous Delta variant, and a world that had been mostly maskless just … Continue reading September 2021: McCaskey Perseveres
For me, and many others, this school year has been excruciatingly difficult. Between having a constant flood of assignments and a severe lack of motivation, my junior year has been a rollercoaster. Until now, I’ve always been an A-B student, and it was one of the most frustrating things to experience. Seeing my grade drop but having no motivation to fix it was hard, but … Continue reading What I’ve Learned as a Student during a Global Pandemic
While this school year has been different and nothing close to “normal”, I learned things about myself that may not have come up in any other situation. This school year has brought challenges, learning curves, new opportunities, amazing friends and many other positive things.. I learned things about myself that may not have come up in any other situation. Being on your own the majority … Continue reading 2020-21: a Real Learning Opportunity
This year I learned how to cornrow, distinguish how my laundry should be done correctly, and face my horrendous sleep schedule. But what did this year teach me about myself personally? Well, if you haven’t been able to tell, I’ve been focused on the external things rather than the internal. After acknowledging that this has been going on during this pandemic and possibly before it … Continue reading 2021: a Reflection
2021 was a year of many things. I, like many others, have felt lost this year. I also learned a few things. For starters, it was hard to remember that mostly everyone around the globe was experiencing the same things as me. And this helped me a lot this year, because though I did have a really hard time, everything could always have been worse. … Continue reading Finding Unity in Struggle
This year was a wild ride. I learned many things about myself and who I am, even though my identity is still hazy. This year pushed me a step further to achieving who I want to be. I learned that I needed to change myself, not for others but for myself. I struggled to put consistent effort into being the best version of myself. I … Continue reading Working Towards Self-Love
The concepts of empathy, understanding, and learning from mistakes were key elements of the 2021 McCaskey East Spring Children’s Play – both inside the magical world created by the show’s actors and production team, and the occasionally more frightening one outside of it. Ms. Nolt, the show’s director and a media studies teacher at East, came up with the idea of having four different set … Continue reading The Unifying Power of the McCaskey Spring Children’s Play
My name is Brandon Balbuena Rincon, and I’m a ninth grader at McCaskey and a Junior Firefighter for the Lafayette Fire Company. When I first started firefighting the Monday after Thanksgiving in 2020, I had a huge misconception about the job and tasks I would be performing. But as time progressed, I gained perspective and knowledge. Currently in the United States, the need for firefighters … Continue reading Guest Editorial: My Life as a Junior Firefighter
On Friday, February 19th, district superintendent Dr. Damaris Rau cancelled the production of Hairspray, the scheduled McCaskey spring musical. But while this ostensibly came out of the blue, it was the culmination of a whirlwind student campaign to raise concerns about the racial dynamics of the work. Auditions for the musical took place on Tuesday, February 16th. The following day, the callbacks list was posted, … Continue reading What Happened to “Hairspray”?
School district superintendent Dr. Damaris Rau is a self-proclaimed advocate for equity. A child of the foster care system and a graduate of St. John’s University, Rau went from working as a teacher and administrator in the Bronx public school system during the Crack epidemic to working at a school in Greenwich, Connecticut, a town which is widely recognized as one of the richest places … Continue reading Dr. Rau: All About Equity
What is Forex? When some people hear the term Forex Trading, they usually think of stock. But that’s not what Forex is. Forex is a foreign exchange market where you can buy, sell, and exchange the prices of currencies. In other words, Forex (FX) is the trading of currencies from one country to another, which compete against each other to make a bigger profit from … Continue reading My Life as a Teenage Forex Trader
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