Olivia Jerram
April 20, 2015
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[dropcap]J[/dropcap]unior Daughty Arora grew up in India with her grandparents. She met her parents for the first time she remembers when she was five. She will be the first in her family to grow up in America.
“It means a lot [to be first generation],” Daughty said. “There’s a lot of pressure from my Indian culture...
Elaine Lee
April 20, 2015
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[dropcap]A[/dropcap]merican fashion, social cues and standardized testing: these are some among many cultural differences that senior Federica Cerruti learned to adjust to when she moved to Los Altos three years ago as a sophomore. Ethnically Italian, she was born and raised in France for seven years before moving to Japan and...
Maya Varghese
April 20, 2015
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[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or Junior Aldo Montes Sanchez, the inspiration to strive to be the first person in his family to go to college comes from his mother, who never had the opportunity to go to college as she wasn’t able to finish high school.
“My mother had come to the US in 8th grade and she believed that learning English was impossible at first,” Aldo said. “She no...
Sitara Sriram
April 20, 2015
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[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat’s for dinner: Black beans and rice or sushi and stir-fry?
Senior Akemi Yoshida comes from very different cultures: her mother is Honduran, her father was Japanese and she has spent her whole life in California. Despite having to juggle many different ways of life, Akemi has managed to find a comfortable...
Hanna Khosravi
April 20, 2015
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[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or as long as he could remember, sophomore Sean Adibi has held his cultural heritage first and foremost in his life. Being a first-generation American from Iran, his primary interests, both social and academic, have merged with his passion regarding his Iranian roots and have led him to continuously build...
Olivia Jerram
April 20, 2015
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[dropcap]J[/dropcap]unior Paola Campos was born and raised in the United States. She plays soccer after school, takes AP English and stresses about college applications. The entire college process and experience is especially important to Paola as she will be the first in her family to attend.
“College is the first bi...
Sitara Sriram
April 19, 2015
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[dropcap]O[/dropcap]One of the most common topics assigned for persuasive essays, school debates and classroom discussions is the issue of teacher tenure. It is one of the most contentious topics in education, and all students, no matter where they come from, can relate to it.
Teacher tenure provides job security for teachers...
Alexandra Milkey
April 19, 2015
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]The California constitution guarantees the fundamental right to a public education. But this guarantee is only the first in a long line of significant constitutional rights that public school students in California have. Several Supreme Court cases have extended many of those constitutional rights to public...
April 19, 2015
Charter schools have been increasing in numbers throughout the United States over the last two decades....
November 5, 2014
Enlisting in the military is often seen as an alternative for those who cannot or do not wish to attend...
November 5, 2014
Filed under In-Depth, Issue-2
If you were to walk into a kindergarten class and ask, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” chances are you’d get a lot of firefighters, astronauts, veterinarians and ballerinas. Most kids wouldn’t say, “I want to be in the military.” However, to seniors Brendan Krepchin, Michael Mylen, Dylan Zorn and JJ Cruz,...
November 5, 2014
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Though traditional combat positions may come to mind when one thinks about the military, there is actually a variety of options available for interested students to explore. Depending on what choices students make, they can enlist after high school or college, and have the option to become officers, work full-time or join the...
