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We Are Not Stopping This Fight: Students React to Trump’s Victory

"We are Americans. We are not stopping this fight until we’re dead and gone."

Trans and Non-Binary Students Fear Trump Victory

Today, trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming students face a pivotal election.

Put Down Your Phone And Connect (After Reading This Article)

Students are no longer allowed to have their devices out in class. 

Drummond: Home Ec Classes Wanted

Schools should reinstate Home Economics classes and make them recommended or even required to graduate.

Interview: Anjali Sachdeva

"I think living in the Information Age, where you (students) have spent your entire lives has had an interesting effect on this, because it counters the very idea of the unknown."

Procrastination Interrupted

"I have always been a procrastinator. Always, always, always. The quarantine’s changed many things, but not that."

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Put Down Your Phone And Connect (After Reading This Article)

Students are no longer allowed to have their devices out in class. 

We Are Not Stopping This Fight: Students React to Trump’s Victory

"We are Americans. We are not stopping this fight until we’re dead and gone."

Trans and Non-Binary Students Fear Trump Victory

Today, trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming students face a pivotal election.

Civics: Now & Then Class Endorses Kamala Harris for President

We believe it is a voter’s responsibility to consider how their vote will affect their life and how their choice of candidate could impact the lives of millions of people across the country.

Put Down Your Phone And Connect (After Reading This Article)

Students are no longer allowed to have their devices out in class. 

We Are Not Stopping This Fight: Students React to Trump’s Victory

"We are Americans. We are not stopping this fight until we’re dead and gone."

Trans and Non-Binary Students Fear Trump Victory

Today, trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming students face a pivotal election.

Civics: Now & Then Class Endorses Kamala Harris for President

We believe it is a voter’s responsibility to consider how their vote will affect their life and how their choice of candidate could impact the lives of millions of people across the country.

“I Am Not Eating That Cursed Jambalaya”

I realized I can celebrate my problems. I can experience magical moments with the people I love. That is what keeps me going.

Meet Brock Dunn: Interim Head of School

But while his affinity for chocolate cereal and natural sociability are common knowledge, one can’t help but wonder, who is Dunn and how did he get here?

Do Not Ban Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Books like Speak are important, realistic portrayals of victims’ experiences are crucial to breaking the overwhelming guilt that comes with talking about assault.

Angry Pigeons: Nico Sardi

Nico Sardi, a senior at NWA, is part of an after school program at NWA focused on creating new music through digital media.

Freshmen Get a Mind Full of New Class

This year, NWA freshmen are required to take the new Mindful Studies class taught by Chris Heckman.

Essays

Joy Division Pushes You Away on Closer

Closer is a suicide note in nine parts. 

Three Essays on Delight

Three seniors write about what delights them.

A Bill of Rights for 2020

America must wholly dedicate itself to protecting the “inalienable rights” of every human being, regardless of gender, race, or socioeconomic status, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Creative Writing

The Shape Shifter: A Wizard’s Exploration of Sacred Geometry

Vertax was a wizard, but by all accounts not an entirely sane one.

Latitude: Poems

The senior E/H class’ recent flex blocks have been dedicated to analyzing and responding to poems from Natasha Rao’s Latitude.

Four Poems

"I am filled with a heart, bigger than the moon/ It breaks the bones, the cage in my chest"

Invarus (Excerpt)

"Pain washed through Keltrinne’s body. She contorted, writhed, then rolled off the top bunk into open air."

Journalism

Put Down Your Phone And Connect (After Reading This Article)

Students are no longer allowed to have their devices out in class. 

We Are Not Stopping This Fight: Students React to Trump’s Victory

"We are Americans. We are not stopping this fight until we’re dead and gone."

Trans and Non-Binary Students Fear Trump Victory

Today, trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming students face a pivotal election.

Civics: Now & Then Class Endorses Kamala Harris for President

We believe it is a voter’s responsibility to consider how their vote will affect their life and how their choice of candidate could impact the lives of millions of people across the country.

Meet Brock Dunn: Interim Head of School

But while his affinity for chocolate cereal and natural sociability are common knowledge, one can’t help but wonder, who is Dunn and how did he get here?

The Pains of Being a Taylor Swift Fan

Swift fans struggled to get tickets to an upcoming tour, including many Northwest Academy students.

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