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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

Bearing News

The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

Bearing News

Cross country athletes gather before a meet. Photo by Eléa-Marie Gilles.

School, students, home in the United States

Eléa-Marie Gilles November 15, 2016

On Oct. 18, I played my first concert as member of the RBHS concert orchestra. I already performed with an orchestra in France but never with a school orchestra with people that I go in class with. In...

Jack-o-lantern, costume party, scary decor?

Jack-o-lantern, costume party, scary decor?

Eléa-Marie Gilles October 31, 2016

Happy Halloween everyone! I would like to share what I discovered and what was different for me for this particular event. I think Halloween is a very special day for everybody, but particularly for the...

By Eléa-Marie Gilles

One month later

Eléa-Marie Gilles October 5, 2016

Welcome to my blog First Impressions! My name is Eléa. I’m the French exchange student at RBHS for the school year. I’m a junior. Every two weeks I will share pictures about the differences between...

Global Village week ends with bang

Global Village week ends with bang

Grace Dorsey March 18, 2016
Global Village week finished off with countries displaying culture through cuisine and artifacts.
New bill proposes daily pledge of patriotism

New bill proposes daily pledge of patriotism

Elad Gov-Ari March 7, 2016
Mired in controversy, RBHS students have different opinions on the pledge of allegiance. A new bill proposes that the pledge be recited on a daily basis.
A+ program adjustments impact international students

A+ program adjustments impact international students

Caylea Ray January 28, 2016
Formerly, the A+ program offered an attainable, economically reasonable opportunity to students. Following a significant adjustment, that opportunity has shrunken drastically.
Give me your tired, your poor — just not the refugees

Give me your tired, your poor — just not the refugees

Faaris Khan December 11, 2015

[heading size="17" margin="10"]Refusal to accept refugees betrays American principles[/heading] "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your...

Disagreements arise over pledge

Nikol Slatinska November 24, 2015

Recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance ignites divide among students and teachers One Nation under God. Since these words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 by President Dwight Eisenhower,...

Republican presidential candidates from left, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and John Kasich take the stage for the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Cleveland. Republicans are steeling themselves for a long period of deep uncertainty following a raucous first debate of the 2016 campaign for president, with no signs this past week’s Fox News face-off will winnow their wide-open field of White House hopefuls anytime soon.   (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

American campaign cycles show flaws in system

Abby Kempf October 10, 2015

Sen. Ted Cruz (R - Texas) announced on March 23 that he would run for the presidency of the United States of America. So began the long-winded, money-guzzling and largely publicized joke of a race for...

Should America get involved in another war in Iraq after the failure of the last one?

Two sides to America’s new Middle East war

Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Kafi October 1, 2014

[column] USA not economically ready for a new war In John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech, he sent out a warning to the world: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall...

art by Yasmeen El-Jayyousi

Immigration mindset outdated, needs reform

Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Kafi April 27, 2014

When discussing the issue of immigration, it is fairly common to hear an argument spring up comparing America to a house; if someone enters a house, wouldn't the owners want them out? In other words,...

photo by Manal Salim

Sharia law poses no intimidation to American government

Jay Whang April 25, 2014

The Islamophobia in America is quite unique. Even more than a decade after September 11th attack, people continue to label Arab-Americans and Muslims as terrorists who want to take away “American freedom”....

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