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EDITORIAL: Parking Lot Safety is a Student Necessity

EDITORIAL: Parking Lot Safety is a Student Necessity

October 15, 2025

It goes without saying that here at FC, many students drive to school. Get here later than 7:10, and you’ll be lucky to find an empty spot not in the way back of the parking lot. With all these students,...

"The Conjuring: Last Rites'" Haunts Theaters

“The Conjuring: Last Rites'” Haunts Theaters

Alexis Leuthold, Opinion Editor October 15, 2025

On July 19 , 2025, The Conjuring movie came out. Now, thirteen years later, there are three mainline Conjuring movies, and 56 spin-offs, including three Annabelle movies, two The Nun movies, and The Curse...

Opinion- How Many Is Enough?

Opinion- How Many Is Enough?

Ryan Miller, Editor-In-Chief September 11, 2025

On September 10, 2025, American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at one of his speaking events in Orem, Utah.  You know what else happened that day? The Athletics walked...

OPINION: Censorship and the Media

OPINION: Censorship and the Media

Alexis Leuthold, Forum Editor September 8, 2025

Year after year, students are taught, step by step, how Germany was turned into a fascist state, which started off by promising to “restore greatness to Germany,” and by the end, they were mass...

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 20, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

OPINION: RFK poses threat to disabled Americans

Emilia Hudson, News Reporter June 14, 2025

On April 16, the newly appointed U.S Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave a speech during a press conference that has led to a myriad of backlash. By now, the speech has been...

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...

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