By Maggie Foight Homework supposedly helps students to remember material learned in class. However, that single benefit is actually outweighed by the stress and pressure it brings along, according to the students it is supposed to help. According to usnews.com, American students receive three and a half hours of homework per class each week, on average. For Wilson students, that means 14 hours for our core coursework every week, with an additional 10.5 if that is applied to our elective studies as well. If this average is correct, we have anywhere from about three to five hours of homework a night.
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By Ava Breslin With the appalling mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017, as well as the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in Dec. of 2012, families and officials have been asking themselves and their school boards if there should be armed guards at schools to protect the students from any potential danger. However, the idea of putting these armed guards in schools seems very counter-intuitive and only increases the chance of harm to students. By Marlayna McArdle Before we determine an exact age limit for Halloween, take a few minutes to empathize with who you’re targeting: imagine that you are twelve, or thirteen, or fourteen. (For the fourteen-year-old freshmen who don’t have to pretend, I can only wish you luck.) Your favorite Aeropostale jeans turn into floods overnight. You learn to operate a dishwasher. You are expected to shovel out the driveway first, and jump into a pile of snow second. Milestones are pelted at you with all the impersonal velocity of an overheated pitching machine, with the added challenge of being locked into the batting cage for several years. Now, imagine that you are in a period of transition as horrifying as the season itself; it’s late October. By Abigail Wurster Subcultures of infantilizing morbidity and insistence on the innocence of the murderous of our society have found refuge in the dark corners of our internet. Serial killers, mass murderers, domestic terrorists and a handful of other gruesome criminals are framed to simply look like the average heartthrob on the cover of a tweenage magazine. Users also post edits of them wearing flower crowns or post straight up crime scene photos with a completely ill-minded caption. Users also are not particular about what cultures they post about. Posts can range anywhere from extremely vintage serial killers, like Albert Fish, to the two most notorious recent mass murderers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who influenced countless copycat crimes. By Kaitlyn Fehr and Cameron Sheasley As our political climate becomes more and more agitated by the fire and flames of hate speech, many schools have updated their school rules and tolerance policies to ensure they can provide a safe and accommodating environment for their students. Wilson, being no exception, has recently updated its dress code in an effort to keep the environment friendly. According to the student handbook, the new dress code now states, "Hate symbols are inappropriate as a part of the dress for students in the school environment. In any form these symbols promote hate, are offensive, promote controversy, may have double meaning, may be misunderstood / misread / misinterpreted, and are inflammatory. Therefore, they are not permitted in any form of student attire or accessory." While this is predicted to stop some hate speech, most, if not all, may require more measures. By Taylor Schutt Pop quizzes are not helpful at all. Honestly, they could potentially make a student’s day worse. If a student does poorly on the pop quiz, she usually feels inferior and worries that her grades will suffer. The only people who really believe that pop quizzes are helpful are those who are at home studying instead of taking part in after- school activities. No one really studies every single day; there is just not enough time in a day to accomplish that. Every student has a limit with what she can do, and after a long day of school, homework, a job and/or other activities, we can become extremely stressed out. So why would we want to come home and study until we fall asleep? Personally, I would want to just take a nap as soon as I stepped through the door. A student already has a lot to deal with during school, and we do not need additional pressures like pop quizzes thrust upon us. It all just gets to be too much sometimes already. By Allyson Ennis In today’s society, most negative feedback is hardly ever received to one’s face, as social media allows us to anonymously hate on others without retribution. Oftentimes we forget to give one another positive feedback that improves self-esteem instead of tearing someone down. Thankfully, a new app that has gained popularity nearly overnight seems to be reversing this idea. TBH is an anonymous app that allows people to show appreciation towards their peers, without pointing fingers. The social app, standing for “To Be Honest,” is slowly stretching across the country after being released in early August. It has just recently become accessible in Pennsylvania. It has even achieved the title of the number one app in the App Store for Apple users, after just two months in operation. By Adith Gopal It’s 12:15 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The big, stuffed turkey has just finished cooking, the mashed potatoes are now drizzled with gravy, the cranberry sauce is poured onto huge plates, and if you’re lucky, Mom or Grandma is almost done making the two big pies she thought were necessary to make. You then turn on the TV to see Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions battling their opponents on the 12:30 NFL Thanksgiving Day matchup. The family is doing great, everybody is hungry and you devour tons of food. And maybe you go for an afternoon nap. But there are another 61.7 percent of people in America that will not hit the hay after the meal. These people will spend hours and hours shopping in their favorite stores, fighting for the first spot in line for the new iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy S8, waiting in more lines after that, and repeating these steps for nearly half a day. But really, is it worth it? Absolutely. |
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