Letter to the staff: Student’s attempt to teach YOU
I think somewhere along preparing students for their next tests, we lost what it really means to educate.
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Higher importance on dancing vs. drugs and alcohol
“No Front to back dancing, bending over, trains, sandwiches, overtly sexual dancing, or dancing that endangers others.” These are the defined terms of dirty dancing. Rather than focusing on alcohol assumption or drug use, we spend too much time defining the ways of inappropriate dancing.
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Honor roll students ask, “where’s my cookie?”
Being an honor roll student used to be a huge accomplishment; however, it seems such students are now being swept under the rug to make room for sports stars and motivationally challenged students.
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Off-campus lunch: teachers use double standard
“Where do you think you’re going!?!” yells an anonymous teacher. “Oh, I was just leaving to go grab a sandwich down the road at Subway, my stomach is starving. It should take no longer than 10 minutes.” Do we not all wish it was that simple to get out of the school parking lot during lunch? Especially after three hours of class time everyday.
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Consistency forgotten in PDA punishments
The Staff and students have many opinions and different ways to deal with a little thing called Public Display of Affection, which has caused a lot of controversy at Centennial High School. According to the student handbook, “open displays of affection—including prolonged hugging/kissing, sitting on laps, etc.—are not appropriate at school and students will be subjected to disciplinary action.”
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Demystifying masturbation: safer alternatives
Sex-Ed in health classes gives students two options: have sex with contraceptives or do not have sex at all, in other words, abstinence. However, the class fails to mention one more option: self-pleasure.
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Cause & effect: the greatest lesson learned in high school
My name is Richard Francis Chauvet III. Two years ago I was the Opinion Editor of the newspaper you are reading right now, The Talon. I very much enjoyed writing for the newspaper, but I had not yet developed a real sense of discipline or accountability.
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School wide write triggers student dissappointment
On Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Centennial High School students were asked to set aside an hour of their day and write. The administration provided students with a prompt that students were expected to write on, which was “Some students drop out of high school before they graduate.
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Students arrive late to class after lunch
With a four minute passing time after lunch, many students scurry to get to their classes. Some students are late because they stop and talk too long, some go to their locker when their class is the opposite direction, and some do not realize that the passing time is two minutes shorter than the others.
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Dirty dancing filled with empty threats
Throughout the past five years of dances, Centennial high school’s administration has been enforcing rules against the practice of “dirty dancing”. Although there have been many attempts to try and halt the implosion of adolescent hormonal rubbing, such as contracts, repetitive announcements by principals, changes in musical selection, and illuminating the dance floor, there has been no change in student behavior.
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Students, the parking lot is not a battle goround!
How many of us have gone out to our car at the end of the day, excited to go home, start to back out and almost get hit by someone going almost thirty miles per hour in our ten mile per hour parking lot? This proves to be a clear indication that some of our student drivers are, irresponsible, crazy drivers, that obviously barley made it out of drivers Ed.
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Food fights back: schools should have control, CON
The originators of the new food policy explain the inspiration for such a change began with the overwhelming number of children and teens labeled as overweight and obese. They believe that by monopolizing what a school can sell to its students for lunches and in vending machines they will instigate and teach adolescents
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Food fights back: schools should have control, PRO
Stomachs are growling as Centennial students glare, disgustedly, at the foreign substance on their lunch plates while daydreaming of last year’s coke, sausage pizza, and fries. This foreign substance, a salad. Any idea that a person has the ability and, more importantly,
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Oh where, oh where has our funding gone?
Before we begin I would first like to present our readers with a purely hypothetical situation to put our student government’s funding predicament into perspective. Imagine CHS as the United States of America,
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Responsibilty and you
I am going to be completely serious with this story. Would you like to know why? Well for the plain and simple reason that people do not seem to understand the words “responsibility” or “effort.” You see this space represents a perpetual problem here on the Talon that is not just limited to the staff or class but a direct reflection of the student body as a whole.
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