It is prom season. Junior Prom will be Monday, March 20 and Senior Prom is on Saturday, May 13.
Students values and experiences regarding prom vary. Some students like going to the dance with a group...
Jean Kurihara graduated from McKinley High School in 1967 and has worked in the main office for nearly half a century. Kurihara died in Aiea on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Many students and staff were sad to hear...
Life as a teen can be stressful. According to Sharon Jayson, writer for USA Today, stress causes 40% of teens to feel irritable or angry and 36% to feel nervous or anxious. A third of teens say stress...
Sherry Takao is a math teacher and what she enjoys most about her job is that she likes teaching math to her students. Takao graduated from the University of Hawaii with an accounting major. If she were...
Linda Mediati is a librarian that works at the Liliha Public Library in Honolulu. Her main job is to help young adult readers understand and choose which books to read. Mediati also does book talks about...
Hawaii schools in the war years had to teach students skills not needed before. One skill was how to properly store and handle gas masks. They feared the poison gas the Japanese could release. Even babies...
Mari Faufata-Pedrina is a 16-year-old sophomore at McKinley High School. She lives with her mother and is a triplet. She is Catholic and goes to King’s Cathedral.
Faufata-Pedrina has gone through a...
Mark Dugay is 35 years old and was raised in the Philippines, which is why he is still adjusting to U.S. education policies.
Some of his hobbies include reading, watching television, and playing sports...
Opportunities are left behind and taken every day.
Junior Sydney Bruce did not study for an Algebra 2 test and regrets it. She said it’s sad to get a B when she could have done better by being prepared....
Brain studies show people have a chemical inside their brain giving that urge to look on the phone every time a notification keeps going off.
Those chemicals are Dopamine, Serotonin and Oxytocin.
“Smartphones...
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