School

By Dan Baden of Como Park Senior High

In 2003, Julie Brandt was interested in playing a spring sport, but her school didn’t have one that she liked. So she and her friends started a petition at Centennial High School to create a girl’s lacrosse team. Seven years later, Julie is currently the head coach of St. Paul’s fifth and sixth grade girls lacrosse league.

By Arielle Mathre of Bluesky Virtual School

Imagine high school without sports, yearbooks without athletes, Friday nights without the lights on at the football stadium.

By Iman Jafri of St. Paul Academy

To the members of the service-learning program Lead Peace, a tree means something different from a mere plant.

By Nyasia Arradondo

When a white student at her school questioned why black students like Nyasia needed an after-school group just for them, she had an answer for him. And an invitation.

By Mariah Davis

On April 14, while most students in the state of Minnesota were fretting about their MCAs, the students at Arlington Senior High in St. Paul were distraught over news the district wanted to shut down their school.

By Nathan Palm

When Osseo High School outlawed grinding at prom, many students were so angry they jumped ship, literally. About 255 students plan on skipping the school’s May 15 prom to attend a party on a boat where they won’t be kicked out for dancing front-to-back.

By Ka Bao Yang

By Mariah Davis

By Ariel Kendall

People sometimes don’t think before they post. Like the girl who is hugging two giant bags of marijuana to her chest in her Facebook profile picture. Follow these simple tips from C.L. Lindsay, an attorney who runs a non-profit dealing with legal problems that often occur on school campuses, about how to be smart about posting online.

By Simon Lancaster

By Sinthia Mireya Turcios and Sinthia Mireya Turcios of Washburn High School

Washburn is a very creative, colorful and diverse school in culture and languages.

By Leah Chaney

By YungJen Vang and YungJen Vang of Central Senior High and Myah Lanoux of Arlington Senior High

Deep-fried food is no longer served at Central Senior High in St. Paul.

“The food nutrition people came and took out all our deep fryers! Did you know,” asked Wanda Christensen, the high school’s cafeteria supervisor. “Everything from now on, including our fries, (is) baked now.”

By Nyasia Arradondo and Nyasia Arradondo of Breck Upper School

Breck is a private, Episcopal, college-preparatory school that excels in its academics but also provides students with other opportunities in extracurricular activities such as sports and fine arts. The biggest challenge for Breck in the upper school is definitely the lack of diversity because most of the minorities are in the lower school. For students, it is the amount of homework they receive, which is roughly around four hours of homework a night.