There are different kinds of reactions among kids when they hear the babysitter is coming. There are the kids who would forcefully attach themselves to their parent’s legs and beg them not to go, and there are the kids who ...
The United States is a mixing pot of culture. A quick five-minute drive will give you the choices of Italian, Greek, or Thai food. You think that you know different culture until you leave the safety of your town and travel away fr...
A hallmark of the American education system and integral part of every U.S. student’s day, the pledge of allegiance has been a school day ritual for over a century. But should it be?
The pledge was first written by Francis Bell...
A couple of years ago the unimaginable became reality for VHS students. The high school got rid of midterms and finals. For the average high school student, this was a huge sigh of relief because that stress is thrown out the w...
2018 was filled with women coming out with personal accounts of sexual harassment they had encountered. The "Me Too" movement was seen by some people as a powerful stand against sexual harassment, but by others as an attack on m...
Many people claim that junior year is the most stressful year out of their high school career. This can be due to many things, including the beginning of the college application process and standardized testing, including the dreaded ...
Sometimes high school can be a puzzle, tricky and complicated. John Hughes, the director of the iconic 80's film The Breakfast Club, kept it simple by taking the stereotypes of cliques and clumping them in a Saturday lunch detent...
In today’s day and age, life seems to revolve around technology. Since the rise of the smartphone in 2007, people have centralized every aspect of life and have kept it compacted into one device. When one purchases a smartphone...
Many varsity athletes at one time have been sitting in gym class asking themselves, “Why do I have to be here right now?”
Throughout elementary school, and middle school, students are forced to take gym almost every day. N...
Doctors, lawyers, Wall Street executives, engineers. These are among the highest paid people in America. Yes, these people have important jobs.. But those who have the most important job of all do not get paid in a way...
