On April 7, the halls were abuzz with strange, professional-looking people with badges. This legion of visitors was in fact a quite impressive gathering of technology directors from Virginia school divisions,...
The average age of instructors in the math department has decreased recently, with the addition of student teachers to several classrooms. Nicole Yoder, student teacher for Geoff Estes, is completing her...
$63 million. That’s approximately the amount of money that it takes for the Harrisonburg City Public Schools to operate each year. As large as that sum seems, the HCPS budget has been stretched to the...
As school draws to a close, it becomes essential to find new and innovative ways to procrastinate on the last bit of work necessary to get through the year. When you’ve completely exhausted all of your...
This blog comes to you from deep in heart of AP season. It comes to from a desolate island of highlighters, textbooks, and the broken fragments of college dreams. It comes to you in the form of an ode-...
The place was a crowded dance studio in New York. The time was far too long past lunch. The crime was uttering two words, usually innocuous on their own, made despicable by the sassiest of question marks.
“No...
“Do you need anything?” the woman says to the young man with the bandage on his forehead.
“I think I might need stitches,” he says.
You and me both, buddy. I stop eavesdropping on the conversation...
Mia Karr, Print Editor-in-Chief
• February 25, 2014
My mother always reprimanded me when she sneezed and I failed to give the expected “bless you.” A lenient woman in many ways, she insisted on this one rule of courtesy. While it seemed silly at the...
Mia Karr, Print Editor-in-Chief
• February 4, 2014
My pants are failing me. In the most basic sense, they fill their function of covering my legs. But in a less basic sense, they do not live up to all that pants have come to be. What I am talking about,...
Mia Karr, Print Editor-in-Chief
• January 30, 2014
I could have survived in the days before the Internet. In the days before cell phones, or rotator dial phones, or fax machines. I could have lived happily before electricity or indoor plumbing. Before...
Mia Karr, Print Editor-in-chief
• January 22, 2014
The old lady in the green jacket isn’t supposed to be in the children’s department. She sits at a table next to a shelf of elementary-level nonfiction holding a yellow backpack and smiling. Even though...
Mia Karr, Print Editor-in-chief
• January 14, 2014
When my grandmother started verbally assaulting the mild-mannered clerk at a store in the Dayton Farmer’s Market, I knew it was time to momentarily disassociate myself from my family. Ducking behind...
Mia Karr, Print Editor-in-Chief
• November 25, 2013
I like romantic movies that aren’t unnecessarily sappy. I like movies that are witty and juxtapose humor with more serious subjects. And I like movies with original plots. If you also like these things,...
