By Fiona Ashbury, Opinions Editor
• October 27, 2014
Twitter. It’s a quick, easy way for news to spread and ideas to be shared. At the Observer we use our @CHS_Observer account as one more way to communicate with the CHS community in an informative and...
I am writing in response to an opinion piece by Greer Smith that ran June 5 titled "Jake’s Law blames texting drivers for wrong reasons." First, let me introduce myself - I am Jake’s mom.
Secondly,...
By Sammy Silber, Editor-in-Chief
• September 26, 2014
When on the Internet, students consider a lot of things: cat videos, Twitter, and Facebook. All the while, no one thinks of MCPS’s “Cybercivility” campaign.
“Cybercivility” is a campaign Superintendent...
With the first week of July comes the equivalent of sponsors’ rankings before the Hunger Games—but AP style. These scores can bring pride and happiness, or tears and self-doubt.
Unfortunately, there...
On the first day of school during an assembly, seniors were presented with a PowerPoint, with one of the slides proclaiming, “Colleges are watching, even after your accepted!” with the incorrect use...
This summer, the Ice Bucket Challenge to cure Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, was an Internet epidemic, spreading over every social network in a matter of weeks. Although the challenge accomplished...
By Fiona Asbury, Opinions Editor
• September 26, 2014
CHS is beginning to introduce a new age of technology and student learning. While these changes will inevitably come with a multitude of challenges and problems, as any technological introduction does,...
Every hour a child is diagnosed with cancer. Every six and a half hours a child’s life is lost to cancer, according to the Pediatric Cancer Foundation.
September is national Childhood Cancer Awareness...
Imagine someone going out, knowing very well he will be drinking. He gets drunk, drives home, and hits another car, killing someone. Now imagine a teenager driving who hears his phone buzz and sees “Mom”...
According to the U.S. News Best High Schools list, 95 percent of CHS students scored at the proficient level in English, 97 percent of students scored proficient in Algebra and CHS received a...
Everything I need to know, I learned in Room 243.
I have been a part of this paper ever since I was a freshman and, let me tell you, I can’t think of a single force in my life that has been as influential...
Fifty years ago on July 2, the iconic Civil Rights Act was passed. This act was the first and most well-known attempt at creating equality among people of different races. However, three years before that,...
