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OPINION: IHSAA Changes Eligibility Rules

OPINION: IHSAA Changes Eligibility Rules

Ashton Tackett and Luis Riggs May 5, 2025

Going into a new High School football season always brings new things like jerseys, fields, and rules. Starting the off-season leading into 2025, IHSAA introduced a new set of eligibility rules stating,...

EDITORIAL: Staff Should Incorporate Fun Into Daily Life at Floyd

EDITORIAL: Staff Should Incorporate Fun Into Daily Life at Floyd

May 5, 2025

As seniors prepare for the end of the year, it can be hard to focus on the positives that coincide with graduation. This can be done in many ways, like prom, senior sunrise, and college signings and acceptances....

OPINION: AI Negatively Undermines Creative Arts

OPINION: AI Negatively Undermines Creative Arts

Alexis Leuthold, A&E Reporter May 5, 2025

With Artificial Intelligence, anything is possible. Many students use AI for a multitude of reasons: homework, writing assignments, and even tests. But that is almost expected; many teenagers will go to...

OPINION: Driving Presents Dangers for Students

OPINION: Driving Presents Dangers for Students

Atlas Coble, Forum Editor May 1, 2025

When students become teenagers, there are many things to look forward to: jobs, relationships, college tours, and graduation. However, one of the most anticipated parts is getting a license. Whether a...

OPINION: The New Trump Administration Spells Trouble For the U.S.

OPINION: The New Trump Administration Spells Trouble For the U.S.

Ryan Miller April 21, 2025

I didn’t think I’d be writing in protest until I was at least in college, but hard times have a way of making people grow up fast, don’t they? This current administration is the closest thing to...

Dallas, TX - November 11, 2024: No Child Left Behind educational platform and programs instituted by George W. Bush and on display at this Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas.

OPINION: Why Students Aren’t Prepared—and What Policies Are to Blame

Alexis Leuthold, A&E Reporter April 14, 2025

All over social media, teachers are saying the same thing: kids are not coming to school prepared. Students in elementary school cannot read and struggle to do basic math; this does not get better as the...

ANTI-WAR STUDENTS, 1960s. 
Mary Beth and John Tinker of Des Moines, Iowa, whose suspension from school in December 1965 for wearing armbands (shown) in protest of the Vietnam War was ruled unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Tinker v. Des Moines School District, 1969.

OPINION: Students reserve the right to protest

Atlas Coble, Forum Editor April 14, 2025

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution promises to the American people that not only do they get freedom of speech, but they also have the freedom to protest. The Bill of Rights does not...

Silenced Pages

Silenced Pages

Sophia Browning, Journalism Student March 19, 2025

There have been 129,864,880 books written since the invention of Gutenberg's Printing Press in 1940. Around 2 million of those books were published in 2024 alone. However, not all of those books are becoming...

United states will recover under Trump

United states will recover under Trump

Hunter Elkin, Journalism Student March 19, 2025

Despite all the challenges that America has faced in recent years, I believe that the nation has the resilience to recover and emerge even stronger. Under both Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump, we...

The Color Conundrum- What Subject is Which?

The Color Conundrum- What Subject is Which?

Danielle Ashby February 17, 2025

This debate has been never ending for as long as colors have existed in schools. Students will fight, brawl, bicker, and attack over this issue. Colors are debatable, but honestly, they should be set in...

Taylor Swift performs as her record-breaking The Eras Tour comes to an end with the first of her three concerts in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada December 6, 2024.  REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier/File photo

The Bassline: Downfalls of Modern Musical Formula

Jack Merry February 17, 2025

When I think of American music, I think of the music that has pervaded my life since I started listening to the radio: pop music. The American style of pop music is synonymous with our culture and lifestyle....

OPINION: E-learning days must take priority over traditional snow days

OPINION: E-learning days must take priority over traditional snow days

Atlas Coble, Forum Editor February 8, 2025

As the sun begins to be clouded and threats of snow storms start to occur, school districts prepare as the poor weather may prohibit students from attending school. While many students celebrate either...

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