Lack of CC exacerbates issue of class rank
October 23, 2017
Filed under Opinion
As a sophomore, I will soon leave the realm where a million students all rank at number one with a 4.0 GPA – and though I know it is above a first world problem, it pains me to think I might be one of those students watching my class rank slipping precariously down the class rank ladder to obscurity. But,...
Teachers overlook grading guidelines
October 23, 2017
Filed under Opinion
No teacher, from my experience at RHS, lived up to the ideal educator that we students create from our own capricious expectations. That’s fair. But teachers, through their grading practices, fail to honor some basic principles of the student-teacher relationship, including the first of the all important...
More need to take part in student selection
October 4, 2017
Filed under Opinion
Are Roseville High School awards meant for everyone? I would assume not, being that they are for “above and beyond service to the school,” according to assistant principal Matt Pipitone. These awards aren’t the burnt-out ROAR bucks that you can maybe enter for a five dollar gift card (but that...
SPENCER: Athletic fields should be reserved for sports teams
October 4, 2017
Filed under Opinion, Sport Opinion, Sports
As a sophomore on the JV football team, getting to use the game field to practice is something that rarely happens, so it’s seen as a privilege. Recently, the band has taken up half of Hanson field so that they can practice during time we used to be able to practice on the playing field, forcing us...
ROAR confines bathroom use
October 2, 2017
Filed under Opinion
I, being a basic teenager, showed up to school one day with a venti strawberry acai refresher from Starbucks. After drinking a venti Starbucks, it is human nature to have to pee. At this point, during ROAR, I walked up to my teacher to ask him if I could use the restroom as I had done at this same...
Kneeling for anthem is a student right
October 2, 2017
Filed under Opinion
Over the past two weeks, people have been in an uproar about President Donald Trump’s comments about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. All this talk about players kneeling during the anthem, which started last year when former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling to bring...
Digitally cast court votes may not be viable casting
October 2, 2017
Filed under Opinion
Homecoming, a time-honored tradition that has built itself up over the years into a complicated series of events, happens to involve the epic rearrangement of the RHS student power structure as Homecoming Princes and Princesses make their bids for power. They campaign in an attempt to cement their...
Senior portrait process makes it real
October 2, 2017
Filed under Opinion
A couple months into the summer of my senior year, I received an email reminding me to schedule an appointment for my senior pictures from Bill Smith Photography. School had not started yet, it hadn’t hit me until that moment that it was actually senior year. I was one year away from graduating –...
PE not necessary for student athletes
October 2, 2017
Filed under Opinion
Students enrolled in Roseville Joint Union High School district are required to take two semesters of PE in order to graduate – regardless of participation in school sports. And while the state does maintain a requirement regarding how much PE a high school student must take in order to graduate, there...
DUGGER: Seniors deserve parking spots
September 11, 2017
Filed under Opinion
If you are a Roseville High student, you can agree that the parking options for students at Roseville High School are far and few between. Berry street, the senior lot, and the small dirt lot are the only few close options for the hundreds of students who drive to school every day. Unlike teachers,...
BENNETT: Time limits unrealistic
September 11, 2017
Filed under Opinion
From district assessments and performance tasks to AP exams and the SAT, in high school there is no escaping the claws of assessments with time constraints. These ticking time bombs test our mathematical reasoning, reading comprehension, writing ability, and a multitude of other facets of our educational...
KHUDYAKOV: Extra credit sets dangerous precedent
September 11, 2017
Filed under Opinion
In my combined one and a quarter years of high school, and the infinite wisdom that I’ve come to inherit in spades as a result, I’ve come to learn this: extra credit is exactly like Tinder. Now, allow me a chance to explain myself. If you were to encounter extra credit on Tinder, it would be an...
