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Peer pressure, bad habits, and lack of attention drive students away from classes. Sixty-five percent of students had 21 or more unexcused absences last year.

Skipping classes has consequences

Carlos Cardenas, Staff Writer
May 25, 2023
The Supreme Court is not as helpful as people think!

The Supreme Court is not as helpful as people think!

Elena Garcia Mena and Adriana Melendez , Staff Writers
May 25, 2023
Lunch at Stuart-Hobson MS, snapped by DC Councilmember Charles Allen who was briefly interested in the quality of DCPS food back in March.

Uneaten school lunches cannot be called healthful – or “smart”

Kendon Pegram, Staff Writer
May 25, 2023
Terrific learning tool, or gateway to disordered thinking? In the hands of young children, technology could be either.

Easy access to technology harms young children’s development

Chloe Tafur, Staff Writer
May 25, 2023
US Representatives consider voting rights for youth

US Representatives consider voting rights for youth

By Yeabsira Gebre and Mell Maloney Lopez, Staff Writers
April 9, 2023
Students and staff look up to Dean Howard who grew up in D.C.

Take a peek into a dean’s life

By Kelsy Acosta-Ramirez, Bernard Brooks and Delia Stuckey, Staff Writers
April 9, 2023
Lewis Hine documented child labor in photographs like this one of children working in a Macon, Georgia mill in 1909. His photos helped expose the problem, and child labor was eventually outlawed in the U.S. in 1938.

Students should be focused on learning and not be forced to earn

By Deonte Belle and Imelda Bislao, Staff Writers
April 3, 2023
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention takes a Youth Risk Behavior Survey in every state every two years. This is from a summary report of trends between 2011 and 2021 and can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/yrbs_data-summary-trends_report2023_508.pdf

Mental health days let students recharge

By Zuleyma Chavarria Hernandez, Ke'mari Pointer and Chloe Tafur, Staff Writers
April 3, 2023
Smiling as usual, Dean Perkins has made a positive impact this year, her first, at Roosevelt.

Students and deans describe Dean Perkins as the personification of happiness

By Mohamed Turay and Taneisha Simmons, Staff Writers
April 3, 2023
The D.C. Council reduced numbers of School Resource Officers in D.C. schools. SROs are trained differently from street cops to work in the schools. “Officers need to be here,’’ Roosevelt sophomore Ethan Anderson said.

Cops perceived differently inside the school building

By Bernard Brooks, Aden Elias and Kendon Pegram, Staff Writers
March 27, 2023
DCPS students have not had access restricted to books considered controversial in states like Virginia. Roosevelts library is open for business (when it is not being used for testing).

Book banning in the name of student ‘protection’ restricts young people’s access to information

By Yeabsira Gebre, Chloe Tafur and DeAdrian Young, Staff Writers
March 26, 2023
Common Sense Media survey

Better perspective on social media emerges now that students are back together in person

Deonte Belle and Mell Maloney Lopez, Staff Writers
March 26, 2023
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