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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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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Teaching behind a clear shower curtain, biology teacher Sally Soulier focuses on teaching her students while maintaining social distance. Soulier suffers from hearing loss and had difficulty hearing students through their masks. “It is so hard to get to know people without their faces, and students likewise can’t see me smiling,” Soulier said.

Photo of the Week – March 8

Brooke Moss, Staff Writer March 12, 2021

Inside the English Concepts Center, teaching assistant Rose Rouner works on her laptop. Rouner spends most of her mornings answering emails for parents of students in the Eighth Grade Acceleration program. "A lot of it is getting information to the parents or just answering questions,” Rouner said. “Some of it has to do with communication between teachers and parents, like about registration for the following year or having an information meeting coming up."

Eighth grade acceleration: helpful or stressful?

Fatema Rehmani, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief April 12, 2019

While their peers are just waking up in the morning, a select group of accelerated eighth graders are already sitting in their first period in a high school classroom. For the last seven years, through...