Column: Fix the roads
Caleb Stein, Staff Writer
May 2, 2018
Filed under Columns, Featured Opinion, Opinion
The area of Fairview, Allen, and Lucas has a major problem. It’s not about any debates over taxpayer dollars, or district elections, or new houses and neighborhoods being built. It’s the roads and just how terrible of a state they are in. In particular, Stacy Road is an absolute mess. The con...
Column: I am more than what you see
Nnenna Nchege, Staff Writer
April 30, 2018
Filed under Columns, Featured Opinion, Opinion
It’s not uncommon for me to be the only black person in a classroom, sometimes the only minority. Whenever there is a discussion regarding the black race, I can feel the eyes of the entire class on me. “How do you feel about this?” I think they ask in their heads. “Do you agree with wha...
Column: Scared, isolated, and defective
Anna Stockton, Staff Writer
April 11, 2018
Filed under Columns, Featured Opinion, Opinion
Children are this world’s most precious resource. They are innocent, pure, and carry the hope for a better future upon their backs. Yet our world continues to marginally ignore and make excuses for mental health issues that plague them. I know the lostness a child can feel when their minds are runnin...
On The Spot: Best things about spring
Gabby Garcia, Staff Writer
April 9, 2018
Filed under On The Spot, Opinion
Students and faculty share their favorite moments and memories about spring, specifically their favorite things about the season.
Column: Battling betrayal
Katie Felton, Staff Writer
April 5, 2018
Filed under Columns, Featured Opinion, Opinion, Top Stories
I trusted you. We were friends, and this is how you treat me? It doesn’t even feel real. I never thought I would have to say, “Me too.” It all happened so fast. One day I was on top of the world, but then the next day it was all gone. You took it away from me. When it first happened, I didn’t r...
Column: Don’t be a flaker
Lily Hager, Section Editor
April 3, 2018
Flaky can be good- flaky biscuits, flaky pastries, snowflakes. But flaky can be very bad- flaky scalp, flaky lips. Flaky people. According to Urban Dictionary, a flaky person is unreliable, a procrastinator, and a careless and lazy person. They say they will do one thing, and they never do...
Ask an adult
Shivani Radhakrishnan, Staff Writer
March 27, 2018
Filed under Featured Opinion, Opinion
In a new series from The Red Ledger, we probe the wisdom of teachers and faculty members at the school on a variety of different topics. This week, we ask what lessons these adults learned in high school and what advice they would give to teenagers now.
Column: A letter
Lily Hager, Section editor
March 22, 2018
Filed under Columns, Featured Opinion, Opinion, Top Stories
To my friend whom I barely knew, I didn’t realize I cared about you. I didn’t even realize I knew your name. Until I read it, the word “prayer,” and “suicide” in one sentence. I remember you rode my bus last year. You had a lot of energy. You seemed popular. You loved to scream, to lau...
Editorial: Redefining learning targets
March 20, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Featured Opinion, Opinion, Top Stories
As students shuffle into class, they pick up their assignments, sit down, and lift their eyes from their phones to look around the classroom. Up on the board the words “I can” are printed boldly, followed by a list of criteria for the day. These memos, commonly known as learning targets, are absorb...
