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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Parkway West’s dress code is sexist

Katie Spillman, PHOTO EDITOR February 3, 2017

Dress codes are an often debated policy, from courtrooms to the desks of lawmakers. The controversial point is sexism, whether these codes enforce an ulterior agenda or if they promote a safe learning...

Students talk during a class discussion.

Common Ground kills class time

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR January 24, 2017
During the 2016-17 school year, there are 12 Common Ground days built into its schedule, taking away seven hours of class time.

Donald Trump cannot be friends with everybody

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR December 6, 2016
The growing relationship between Trump and Putin cannot be ignored.

The inevitable issues of the presidential election

Justin Cupps, CONCEPTUAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF November 4, 2016

Approximately 305 days ago, I published a story that mocked the hilarious state of 2016 Presidential Primary Election and its various candidates, and now, as many had feared back then, the only two candidates...

Legal limits before liftoff

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR September 23, 2016

The family car is a small green spaceship, traffic is flowing on aerial highways and the entirety of society is located at the top of very small spires: It’s The Jetsons.. Sadly, an era of common and...

The Green Party’s rose-colored glasses

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR August 31, 2016

Physician-turned-politician Jill Stein has been a name among the Green Party for years, and as frustrations grow with mainstream presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, she is breaking...

The power of superdelegates

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR August 19, 2016

California resident Matt Johnson’s vote matters more than yours, as does Jimmy Carter’s. These men are just two of the Democratic Party’s 713 superdelegates, and they are the Democratic Party’s...

Out of 166 certified teachers at West, only six are of color, making student diversity greater than teacher diversity.

Students push to raise awareness for lack of teacher diversity

Emily Dickson, CONCEPTUAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF May 12, 2016
The school has been making an effort to promote religion, gender and racial inclusiveness in Common Ground, but many students feel this is rendered ineffective with an undiversified teaching staff.

Adverse issues of dog fighting

Alex Rossi, STAFF WRITER April 29, 2016
According to a 2015 survey by The American Pet Products Association (APPA), of the 79.7 million homes that have a pet, 54.4 million of those homes own one dog.
Kumar presents his research to the board during the judging panel. The young computer programmer had to face two rounds of rigorous judging before being awarded second place. "I was surprised that I won. First they announced all of the finalists and when they skipped my name my mom started crying and somebody next to her said not to worry because I probably won something higher, but she was crying because she was happy," Kumar said.

Dinky data tables

Emily Dickson, CONCEPTUAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF March 28, 2016
Evidently, Parkway doesn’t see its students like scientists in their science fair. The narrow judging rubric treats science like a one-size-fits-all equation, when in reality, the most successful and ground breaking projects often develop not as rigid experiments, but as ideas, inventions and cumulative research.