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TikTok Timeout: 75-Day Extension Keeps the Clock Ticking
February 5, 2025
Zeb Kendall, Staff Writer
The popular social media app TikTok has been granted a 75-day extension on its ban, which initially took effect on the evening of January 18th. For years, many believed a TikTok ban was unlikely. Congress has raised two primary...
ACPS Advances Center 2 and Other High School Redesigns
December 20, 2024
Sophie Mathew, Editor-In-Chief
There it is: the reminder during Warrior Period about the ever-dreaded Panorama survey. You mentally prepare yourself for fifteen minutes of covertly trying to make a pretty shape with the multiple-choice bubbles while your teacher...
Cheating on the Rise? Academic Dishonesty Comes to the Surface
December 16, 2024
Annabelle Mackey, Editor-in-Chief
Academic dishonesty is not a recent phenomenon. In the past few months, however, it has appeared that cheating has been at an all time high. Within just two months, four reported cheating scandals arose, including Sandra McLaughlin...
How Storyteller Jeff Stone Finds Magic In the Mundane
December 11, 2024
Gray Tracey, Editor-In-Chief
Students may be familiar with Jeff Stone from their study halls, but beyond the B Wing, he’s also a dedicated creator. “I don’t know if I would just call myself a writer,” Stone said, but “I do a lot of writing.” “I’ve...

Lightspeed Classroom allows teachers to records students’ screens while in class

Lightspeed Classroom Monitors Student Actions

Olivia Moore, Student Life Editor • February 5, 2025

Lightspeed Classroom, the new extension to ACPS computers, gives monitoring services to the hands of teachers. This addition, which attempts to minimize distractions during class...

Sadie Adams poses infront of new and improved WAHS track and turf field that was redone over the summer.

Sadie Adams is Commited to Greatness

Maddie Burnette, Staff Writer • December 16, 2024

Senior Sadie Adams started running in 8th grade as a “last resort during COVID,”and soon fell in love. Adams loved running in nature and saw it as an outlet for herself and...

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