By Elisabeth Palacios More and more school districts across the U.S. have been implementing four-day school weeks and three-day weekends. This could be great for teachers and students, as they’d have less stress, be given more leisure time, and be able to have a better work-life balance. However, what are the other consequences of students having less educational time during a standard week? Will the … Continue reading Could a Four-Day School Week Work at McCaskey?

By Sidney Brant As seniors decide whether or not to submit SAT scores, and juniors prepare to take the test for the first time, many students contemplate the same question: what’s the point? It seems ludicrous to spend dozens of hours re-learning freshman year trig and how to apply grammar rules to heinously written passages for questions that may or may not be on a … Continue reading Is the SAT Becoming Obsolete?

I had always imagined high school to be what it was in the movies: the cliques, the fights for popularity, the overdramatic bullying, eating lunch in the bathroom. I was fearful of the experiences ninth grade would bring me and I was petrified of the four years to come after that. My start to high school was different from how most people would spend their … Continue reading Goodbye, McCaskey

The FS100 program is a freshman college course at HACC that teaches you about life skills you may need to be successful in school and life. The program is a real eye-opener that takes you through subjects such as how to control finances to deep discoveries about your own learning habits.  I enlisted into the program by attending Ms.Walls CA class. From there, we learned … Continue reading My Experience in FS100

I do not know what you, the reader of this article, need to hear about my high school experience. I don’t even know if you want to hear about any of it.  I could tell you that when I came to McCaskey, I thought there was one right way to be a person, and that way was warped by my own insecurities and fears.  I … Continue reading Well, Goodbye.

Senior year went by in a flash. It feels like only a couple weeks ago that I stepped foot into McCaskey’s tall, red brick building for the first time since the year before. The cracked, cream colored stairs leading up to the doorway, the tall green windows, the lampposts lining the very sidewalk each student walks at some point during their time here. That was … Continue reading The Last First Time