By Rebekah Sklute, Circulation Manager
• October 29, 2015
If a student skips class, he or she is more likely to get into the college of his or her choice.
Given the choice between attending University of Michigan’s college presentation or an AP class, a...
They walk through the halls in a zombie-like state, crashing and bumping into people with no regard for their surroundings. It’s not The Walking Dead, but a new generation of “deadwalkers” in CHS...
Wellness Weekend at CHS doesn’t work so well.
Every so often, CHS has a Wellness Weekend, where teachers are instructed not to assign homework on Friday to be done over the weekend and turned in...
Those two weeks in January and June that you have reserved for stress, tears, and nights of poring over notes? Go ahead and schedule two more. Every nine weeks, to be exact.
MCPS has decided to replace...
By Maya Rosenberg, Social Media Editor
• September 29, 2015
The workload for students at CHS is never supposed to be easy. But last year, during my first year of high school, I was swamped by the workload. I would have days with three or four summative tests in...
By Balbina Yang, Features Editor
• September 29, 2015
CHS may be 24th in the nation for college readiness, but its confusing and intensive process of approving excused absences makes for a less successful learning environment, as it discourages additional...
Every day in Newspaper, Yearbook and Literary Magazine, students use their creativity to produce forms of art--writing, photography and design. However, they aren’t rewarded with an arts credit.
By...
Eight a.m.—AP Exam. 12 p.m.—the exam lets out. After that—a relaxing trip to the mall.
Any student who wishes can carry out this plan.
According to the CHS website, “students who are taking...
“These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me, which means orange really is the new black.”
This was a quote by President Obama at the 2014 White...
In response to Sara Heimlich’s April article that discussed the recent censoring of “angry bulldogs” on a class t-shirt, The Observer noticed many “angry bulldogs” around the school.
Many...
Roll a six and land on free parking no more—parking at CHS for students involved in athletics, SGA, newspaper, yearbook and other school-related extracurriculars just got a little harder.
A new policy...
When I was in middle school, I used to cut myself. One day, one of my teachers made a joke about cutting. I sat there and watched my whole class laugh at an issue I was struggling with. It took me over...
