The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
“[My biggest challenge] is balancing school work, friends and family in high school. [When] you go to school, you learn a lot, you go home and you have so much homework so you have no time for family or friends. In life, you need a good balance of everything. When you have so much homework, it's really hard. Sometimes I don't get all my homework done and then there's consequences later. I’m still working on that. Usually, I go home and I try to take a break for a while. I'll talk with my family, go on my phone and have a snack. Then, I'll try [to] get some homework done. If I don't get all that done, I tell myself it's fine and I go to sleep because getting a lot of sleep is important.” - Samantha Doolittle, 9

Samantha Doolittle

Ruthvi Tadakamalla, Editor-In-Chief • May 31, 2023

Instead of sleeping, you might find yourself perusing TikTok or FaceTiming a friend.

You stay up late. Here’s why it’s okay.

Brinda Ambal, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief • May 6, 2020

Your house is silent. Your covers are pulled up over your head. Your face is washed over with the slightly sickening, pale glow of your phone, and your pallid complexion is fitting for the situation. You...

A student models purple pants, a groutfit and dressing like an evergreen tree.

Fashion for the fatigued

Fatema Rehmani, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief • December 17, 2019

“I’m so fancy,” said no sleep-deprived person ever. Dressing up takes motivation, time and energy, unfamiliar concepts to the procrastinators among us. However, now that we have learned how to deal...

Permanent Daylight Savings Time would have positive effect on students

Brinda Ambal, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief • November 4, 2019

Every first Sunday of November, students gain one hour of sleep back, while every second Sunday of March, we lose one as finals and the spring sports season looms. With “fall back” approaching quickly,...

A student accidentally falls asleep on her book in class. She got two hours of sleep the previous night. “I always fall asleep in my classes and miss out on information, so then I have to stay up the next night trying to figure out how to do the homework,” she said. “This cycle makes everything so hard, but I refuse to sleep at night because hashtag sleep is for the weak.”

The myths of sleep deprivation among generation z(zzz)

Fatema Rehmani, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief • October 30, 2019

Sleep is for the weak: the junior year mantra. Rise and grind, get ‘er done, do good things with your time—not because you care—solely to put on your applications. This is the time to make yourself...

Priest sleeps her life away as the pain killers and chemo medication treat her arthritic symptoms.

A patient drowning in pain killers, a doctor swimming in money

Kristin Priest, STAFF WRITER • March 8, 2017

Something was wrong, and my mom had realized that. Each time I went back to my rheumatologist, I told them that I felt worse, and their response was a higher dosage of medications. There was a time when...

Keith Marty, superintendent of Parkway School District.

Editorial: Should West High and other Parkway schools start later?

Vaishal Shah, Staff Writers • September 22, 2014
Sleep. For some people it’s a time of restful comfort, but for high school students it’s practically non-existent in their busy lifestyles.