Everyone does it. Stick gum to the underside of desks. Write “Jeff was here” on a bathroom stall or call someone a name, hoping the now-degraded person walks in to the bathroom and sees it. But this is not the case with a 12-year-old girl in Forest Hills, New York. This girl, Alexa Gonzalez, had written, “I love my friends Abby and Faith, Lex was here 2/1/10″ on a classroom desk with a green marker. What was the punishment? Two police officers handcuffing the girl and escorting her out of …

Another new policy is about to hit the halls of GBHS. This one has nothing to do with cell phones or library usage. The next big change is weighted grades.
This new grading system will apply to all AP courses. According to Dr. Jennifer Hammond this is because “some students would not select an AP course [in order] to protect their grade point average.”
By weighting grades for AP courses that students take, AP students’ GPAs will go up. If a student gets a B in the class, it is an A …

With the end of the year, many students are out of class for various reasons. At the same time, many big projects are assigned. See a problem?
Students, seniors primarily, miss a lot of classes at the end of school when their grades matter the most. It starts off with the day of Prom, which because it’s held on a Friday is just asking students to skip, and continues into Senior Skip Day, and then into the Cedar Point trip for Physics students. Also, students simply miss a lot of school …

Despite its apparent effectiveness in keeping students on task, GISD internet filtering often blocks legitimate educational websites. An editorial cartoon.

So you forgot to print your paper for your third hour class. No big deal, at least you remembered to save it to your flash drive. All you need to do is simply stop by the library during passing time and print it off. Problem solved, right? Wrong, thanks to a new school policy.