This 2014-2015 school year has Christmas vacation scheduled for Dec. 24 to Jan. 5. All students greatly cherish this holiday vacation, for this is the longest break of the school year, with about two weeks-school...
Shorts Time is Too Short
School’s today are either getting more and more strict with dress codes, or less and less. AASD is definitely one of the strictest dress codes in the area. Shorts can...
The thought of being able to eat a Sheetz cheese pretzel for lunch brings a satisfying thought to a student’s brain. Schools all over the world allow students to leave school premises during lunch...
Altoona Area School District buses have had video cameras in place for awhile now when the drivers take students to and from school. The camera is put in use on the bus to help stop problems. Recently,...
What confuses me the most is why people call us the greatest generation. If we are the ‘‘greatest generation’’ why don’t we start acting like it?
Kids in our generation have no life goals,...
At first, school IDs and lanyards were a great idea, now they are completely useless. So why do students wear them? It’s honestly a waste of time when students don’t need the IDs for any school related...
Let’s face it, no one gets up in the morning and is wide awake and ready to start the school day. Everyone always complains about school beginning too early, and it does.
First of all, students get...
Every year students all over the country must take and pass a fitness test. Students will be tested on how fast they can run a mile, the shuttle run, sit and reach, how many pull ups they can do, how many...
Every day in the school hallway, in class and at lunch, students constantly hear teenagers criticizing their teachers. Whether they don’t agree with a math concept, they were given a detention or...
People have been changing their hairstyles for ages. Schools have been putting restrictions on how long and what color hair should be for just as long.
Understand that yes, students shouldn't...
About ⅓ of academic and honor students total in ninth grade failed the Algebra 1 Keystone Exam in their eighth grade year. Students moving on to Algebra II will not be completely prepared retaking...
Last week was the week for basketball tryouts. The girls had many people try out, but only about half the girls who tried out made the team. The boys team had many people try out also, but many more people...
