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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

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Bill conflicts with American ideals

Mahogany Thomas March 21, 2012

House Bill 1186 has a one word description discriminative. While awaiting Senate debate, the bill questions Missouri’s acceptance toward certain ethnicities, alluding to the idea that Missourians find...

AP students should not pay for exams

AP students should not pay for exams

Isaac Pasley March 17, 2012

No matter how they cut it, a hard fact of life for high school seniors is that college is expensive. According to U.S. News, the average cost of college in 2010 was about $20,000 for public schools and...

Taxation benefits economy, health

Daphne Yu February 24, 2012

Smoking, the most preventable cause of disability and death in Missouri, causes nearly 10,000 Missourian deaths each year, according to the Missouri Department of Health. To combat this problem, Rep. Mary...

Supporting education: tenure offers job security, maintains standards

February 23, 2012

Effective classroom management arises from experience. A competent teacher’s students will gain 52 percentile points over a year’s time, whereas those of an ineffective teacher will only gain 14 percentile...

Administrators have valid resoning behind cell phone confiscations

Walter Wang February 21, 2012

With the world rapidly bending to the will of technology, there are few defenses left to combat the influence devices such as iPods, kindles and cell phones have on Americans' lives. As a generation mesmerized...

Proposed dropout age unrealistic

Mike Presberg February 16, 2012

In his most recent State of the Union address, President Obama proposed that every state raise the dropout age to 18. Like many of the Obama administration’s proposals, this idea is well-intentioned,...

U.S. students attitude about education requires overhaul

U.S. students’ attitude about education requires overhaul

Walter Wang February 9, 2012

Our educational system is subpar. According to studies the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development conducted, the U.S. ranks only average in reading, science and math literacy. We need a...

Rise of new languages demands alternatives

Shivangi Singh February 2, 2012

In a world where Internet is used by more than 50 million people, with the numbers doubling annually, where foreign-exchange markets have increased a thousand-fold between the mid-1970s and 1996 and where...

Students should care about local issues

Students should care about local issues

February 2, 2012

The future of the nation is indifferent. The people who have the most at stake in the future vote the least, while those with the least investment in the future are among the most involved in deciding...

Patriots earn chance for redemption

Nadav Gov-Ari January 31, 2012

At least the Patriots can rest easy knowing David Tyree is retired. Tyree’s ‘helmet catch’ is iconic of the Giants’ historic victory over the previously unbeaten Patriots. According to ESPN columnist...

SB 590 targets foreigners

SB 590 targets foreigners

Walter Wang January 27, 2012

Sen. Will Kraus (R-Lee’s Summit) must be a magician. He plans to clear the streets and schools in Missouri of illegal immigrants by having mandatory immigration status checks, all without spending an...

Ice cream sandwich pushes Android ahead of Apple

Ice cream sandwich pushes Android ahead of Apple

Walter Wang January 18, 2012

The reign of the iPhone is over. Other operating systems, like Android, have caught up to iOS in many areas and surpassed them in others. Apple has already been copying and catching to Android 2.3 Gingerbread;...

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