For 53 years, daylights savings has been a bi-annual time change in California but could potentially come to an end in 2020. This change should be brought forth because daylight savings time is detrimental to society, and eliminating the daylight savings will be beneficial for California residents. […]
The ACT, a standardized test required for the college admissions process, recently implemented a policy that allows students to retake individual sections of the test, providing a step in the right direction toward adjusting the ACT to be less strenuous for students taking it. Students who will take the ACT in the future years will benefit from the new policy change, excluding students who took it in previous years. […]
Nowadays, high school students have all been lectured about how to keep their presence on social media minimal and private so it does not affect their future careers. I agreed with this idea until recently when my perspective on the issue shifted. My English teacher, Bradi Everett, presented a lesson on how it is actually beneficial to create an appropriate public profile on social media in order to make professional relationships and connections for our post-high school lives. […]
English and creative writing teacher Shannon Vaughan recognizes how homelessness is a major problem and plans to do her part to help the crisis. […]
Senior Collette Tibbets took what started as a Girl Scout’s project to a whole new level. […]
Teachers discussing politics in the classroom at high schools in Manhattan Beach has recently become an issue due to the controversy it creates. Teachers should keep their political opinions to themselves to avoid possible conflicts and issues from arising. In other words, if a student’s personal opinion is influenced by a teacher’s, they will lack the skills to develop their own opinions in the future when they can vote. […]
Since Canvas is not being renewed next school year, the district needs to find an app to replace it. Without the use of a helpful app, students are left with nothing to check their homework, classwork or grades. Although Canvas serves this purpose, many teachers do not use Canvas, and students are left deprived of these navigational features. […]
La Vista takes a look at the Families Connected Speakers Series, which was hosted in the Costa auditorium and discussed stress for student-athletes. […]
Students are increasingly turned away from pursuing an Arts education in public schools. The importance of taking arts courses has been severely undermined in recent years due to bias in favor of STEM fields.This bias was first demonstrated in the 1986-1987 school year when the California Department of Education’s Education Code (EC) 51225.3 created the State Minimum Course Requirements, which detail the courses students must take in order to graduate. […]
Journalists are like superheroes; we comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.This quote was the foundation of our first lesson in my beginning journalism class taught by Michael McAvin. We were taught that the duty of a journalist is to speak the truth in the face of controversy, and to challenge ideas of those in power, while comforting those who have been taken advantage of by others. […]
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