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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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Teacher Andrew Van Herik protests outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters July 22.

Podcast: COVID-19 and America’s teacher crisis

Tyler Kinzy, Managing Editor-in-Chief July 29, 2020

The vast majority of Americans believe teachers don’t receive the respect—or pay—they deserve, but that won’t stop the U.S. from forcing educators to work in potential COVID-19 hotspots with barebones...

Teachers Chris Johnson, Kim Hanan-West and Tommie Rowe share their senior photos with other faculty members.

Guess the teacher by their senior picture

Susie Seidel, Convergence Media Editor May 4, 2020

In light of senior year being cut too short for the class of 2020, faculty members have commemorated their own senior year by sharing pictures, memories and advice. As many teachers reflected, it is not...

Reading off Longhorn Pride Awards

Nayeon Ryu, Video Editor May 15, 2019

Every year for the honors ceremony, faculty members nominate one student each for the Longhorn Pride Award. We had some teachers read off the reasons they chose their recipient, to their recipient.

Playing on their phones instead of doing homework, seniors Terrell Jones and Jonathan Dixon relax in the senior lounge. The senior lounge was given to seniors as an alternative to the study hall rooms, but Dixon used it as a place to watch Netflix. “The moment I stepped into West High this year I knew I wanted to get out as soon as possible,” Dixon said.

Senioritis: fact or fiction

Katie Spillman, PHOTO EDITOR November 1, 2017
92 percent of students who responded to a survey sent out to all seniors said that they already felt that they were experiencing senioritis.