Written by Wesley Fink, Max Leonard, and Derek Dela Cruz San Marin High School has issues when it comes to the treatment of it’s LGBT community. As a school, we like to think we’re a lot more progressive than some of our actions indicate. However, it is the small things, jokes between friends, sneers, and statements that can have negative
Read moreBy Paige Chassman, Stephanie Metzger, and Amanda Oppegard Recently, San Marin has had several incidents of student racism on campus, including “ZOOM Bombings” in which people join class ZOOM calls and use hate speech, mostly directed at students of color and non-heterosexual sexualities. There have also been inappropriate Instagram accounts created using San Marin’s name to spread hate and intolerance.
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Wesley Swedlow, Melissa Matheny-Muñoz, Curtis Aikens, Dee Boyd, and Evelyn Negrete-Moreno meet over Zoom to discuss the use of racial slurs and offensive language present in books read in school. They discuss how they are affected by the presence of racial slurs and offensive language in classrooms, as well as how they feel about their presence in future classrooms.
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My computer lit up with an email notification on a Saturday night as I sat down with my family to watch a movie. I clicked on the message and read, “Google Classroom assignment due Monday.” Although I had spent the whole day completing homework so that I could have a free Sunday, that plan had changed. With the entire world
Read moreAfter sitting hunched over my desk for the entire morning, the last thing I would ever want to do with my afternoon is return to my desk and work on college applications. Applying to colleges has always been a mentally exhausting process, but this year applications will be even more challenging and less predictable. However, these new and strange circumstances
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March 13th, 2020 will forever stand out to me as the strangest day of high school. Having Pi Day without students parading around in t shirts with 3.14 plastered across the front, or not seeing Ms. Laabs handing out slices of pie to the whole math department just felt wrong. We were waiting for something to creep upon us. It
Read moreBy Vivian Bui & Elise Jonas-Delson Dear class of 2020, Who would have predicted that the world would crash into shambles during what many would argue is one of the most sentimental times of our lives? We were robbed of the limited time we had left with our friends, our much-anticipated prom, senior fashion show, final sports games and musical
Read moreBy Vivienne Tran & Emma Williams Attending Zoom webinars in lieu of admitted students days means that the faces of your future classmates are replaced by muted, gray boxes. Technical difficulties and a lack of real human interaction make it difficult to pay attention and gain useful information. Of course, many of us could not visit college campuses anyways, but
Read moreI’ve lived my life constantly over-analyzing every aspect of myself. Not to make sure I’m perfect, but to make sure others don’t notice me in a negative light. I was so obsessively afraid of being judged by my peers that I hid parts of myself away, hoping they’d never be found. Keeping aspects of my personality to myself caused me
Read moreEver since I was young, I have wanted my life to feel like a movie. My childhood was stitched with vignettes of classic Disney scenes, catchy choruses from Disney soundtracks, and iconic characters that felt like close friends of mine. The polished and perfect life that was subconsciously painted before my eyes was all because of Disney Channel. Every love
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