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If there is one redeeming quality about embarking on the grueling battle that is an AP class at Staples High School, it is that once the AP test is over in early May, the class essentially goes into cruise control for the rest of the year. Assignments are rare, and most teachers put on a...

The 2023 TEAM Westport Teen Diversity Essay Contest challenged high school students to focus on one thing: dialogue.  Tyler Darden ’25 took the prompt and ran with it, elegantly reflecting on his interactions with people of “different racial, ethnic, religious and/or LGBTQIA+ identities and/or perspectives,” according to the Westport Library website. He and two other...

As teenagers, romantic relationships seem like the ideal: the happy couples kissing on Instagram, walking each other to classes and sitting together to pose for pictures. This idealistic version of teenage romance represents only a portion of the reality of relationships. Being as young and inexperienced as teenagers are, it is important to keep in...

Throughout my high school experience, I have felt pressured to succumb to the “Staples norm” of overloading AP classes and neglecting my personal interests in the name of a weighted GPA. Many of my friends have admitted to enrolling in calculus to “appeal” to colleges despite their deep hatred of all things math. But if...

The sky glistens with thousands of snowflakes flurrying and covering the ground below in a delicate sheet of white. While some Staples students prefer to curl up with a good book by the fireplace, others eagerly change into their snow boots, venturing out into the endless possibilities of winter. Among the adventurers are snowshoers, ice...

Over recent years, the extensive body positivity movement has swept modern social media and the minds of our generation. The movement presses that we should love our bodies no matter what. Its rhetoric has provided comfort and security to many teenagers as they transition through their most transformative years—where their bodies are constantly growing and...

If you had told me three years ago that I would be working two jobs on top of being a full time student, I would have said you were insane. As a freshman I thought being a student was all the commitment I could make during the school year and, besides, there was no need...

If you had told me three years ago that I would be working two jobs on top of being a full time student, I would have said you were insane. As a freshman I thought being a student was all the commitment I could make during the school year and, besides, there was no need...

Upon entering my first Connections class of the year, I expected to relax, greet my Connections teacher and talk about the new school year. Instead, we were read the new policy changes regarding our cell phones and the new punishments for the closed-campus rule. These new changes set my class off. The first offense for...

Among the plethora of books and burnt-out high schoolers that inhabited the library on May 11, students enrolled in African American, Black, Latino, and Puerto Rican Studies proudly presented their final project — an interactive museum exhibit. Featured projects included posters, websites and essays focused on topics relating to the resistance, rebellion, oppression and celebration...