Superintendent Joshua Starr recommended that the MCPS Board of Education remove the names of all religious holidays from the calendar.
On Starr’s proposed 2015-2016 school calendar, all religious holiday...
With college application season upon us, students channel their frustration at the perceived roots of their strife. Recently, Affirmative Action has become one for some white students who feel cheated...
When I first heard about the use of biblical allusions in AP Literature, I was incensed. I would need to read the Bible to pass? I’m not Christian, so why should I have to? Why should anyone have to?
Students...
It is the first Tuesday of November; people line up inside schools, churches and community centers to cast their vote in the midterm election. Election day comes around every two years, and allows American...
By Fiona Asbury, Opinions Editor
• November 20, 2014
Seventy-five SSL hours is a burdensome requirement for many MCPS students, but an easy enough feat to accomplish. Although nowhere in the graduation requirements does it call for a student to start his...
Earlier this week on Nov. 17, popular photo messaging app Snapchat partnered up with start-up company Square to release a new feature called “Snapcash.” Snapcash allows users who are 18 and over and...
As the practice fire alarm began ringing Sept. 23, students, knowing they would be missing class due to the drill, chatted amiably with one another and meandered outside until they located their classmates...
By Yash Nigam, Online Opinions Editor
• October 27, 2014
The "Common Application" is a deceptive name because it is, in fact, uncommon to many colleges. While hundreds of colleges have transitioned to using the Common App as their main admissions portal, there...
"I HAVE to do well on this next math test! It is 70 percent of my grade!"
This is not an uncommon statement to hear in CHS hallways. Weighted grades are beginning to take over the CHS gradebooks, with...
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...
