High School: Prison or Paradise?
Wendy Thompson, a Language Arts teacher at Forrest M. Bird Charter High School, recently challenged one of her students to write about high school in a humorous way. The student, …
Wendy Thompson, a Language Arts teacher at Forrest M. Bird Charter High School, recently challenged one of her students to write about high school in a humorous way. The student, …
By Alexandra Blackwood
Reader Contributor
Editor’s Note: We had such a positive response to Ms. Blackwood’s first article, “A Cloaked Reality” dealing with teenage depression, we asked her to write …
By Alexandra Blackwood
Reader Contributor
Illustration by Nancy Cerra
The following article is dedicated primarily to those suffering the affliction of mental illness, and to inform individuals unaware of how …
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