School News

❁Summer Blast Party❁

June 7, 2023

By: Onelis Ramirez

╰┈➤  Introduction:

Taking place on June 7 is the Summer Blast Party from the Outdoor Education Club. You can attend by paying a cost of $5 before May 31, 2023. Sign up quick, because it's limited to the first 150 students who sign up with this link.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0OEtoHV5c2Qvhvl-hrigzEQfKIdYU6Wn0fBI4i3gbsOuhXQ/viewform

╰┈➤  Body Text:

             : ̗̀➛ Basic information:

The Summer Blast Party is holding lots of activities, such as free Kona Ice, lawn games, water games, and a Dunk Tank to soak the staff in good ol’ water. It takes place in the Timothy Edwards back soccer field from 4:00 - 6:00. Don’t forget to turn in your $5 to Sr. G in room 361. It’s also best to bring some extra cash for snacks and sweet or sour candies, maybe even both!** 

**I’m looking at you, Sour Patch Kids.

             : ̗̀➛ Statement #1: Interviewee - Gia Arora

Q : Have you signed up for the Summer Blast Party?

A : Yeah.

Q : Are you excited? If so, for what the most?

A : Yeah, I'm most excited for the water games with friends, then Kona Ice after a hot day.

             : ̗̀➛ Statement #2: Interviewee - Suri Nguyen

Q : Have you signed up for the Summer Blast Party?

A : Yes

Q : Are you excited? If so, for what the most?

A : Yeah I'm excited, I'm excited for the Kona Ice

             : ̗̀➛ Statement #3: Interviewee - Anonymous

Q : Have you signed up for the Summer Blast Party?

A : Yes, I have signed up

Q : Are you excited? If so, for what the most?

A : I'm so excited for the water activites!

Thank you for your participation!

The Best Parts about TE

By: Suri Nguyen

• How many clubs there are. 

TE has many clubs for students to do what they enjoy: sports, art , theater, etc.

• W.I.N 

 TE offers W.I.N time for students , W.I.N stands for What. I. Need. In W.I.N, students can do and finish what they need for other classes and go visit other classes for WIN.

• The options for lunch 

TE offers many different food options for lunch, including a snack bar with drinks and snacks for students to purchase. TE’s lunch mostly stays the same with pizza, different kinds of burgers, yogurt parfaits, bagels, uncrustibles, sandwiches, salads, and TE offers a daily special that changes every day. 

• Different encores every quarter 

 TE offers 4 different types of encore that teaches students different types of skills. The encores TE offers art, FCS, tech ed,  and health, plus PE and 4 different types of options for music encores: music matrix, chorus, orchestra and band. 

• Friends 

One of my favorite things about school is how I get to see my friends at school everyday and how I can socialize with a lot of different kids.

• Teachers 

 Teachers at TE always try their best to teach students, and are patient and understanding.

School Lunch

By: Joseph Kapralos

What if I told you that the school lunch barely has enough nutrition to last 3 hours? What if I told you that the growing problem of childhood obesity is all in the government's power to fix? What if I told you that the school lunch program, despite some saying otherwise, only serves American and European foods? What if I told you that ketchup packets are considered a vegetable? What if I told you that these are all true statements?

The health hazard that is school lunch has been a problem for some time, starting as soon as the program started. One of these issues is the high amount of sodium in the lunches. This is problematic because a study has shown that consuming foods high in sodium on a daily basis has lasting effects on brain development and growth.

To address the issues of the diversity of the food, one of my friends and his friends had to stop being vegetarian because of the sparseness of vegetarian options. This is more or less forced assimilation to American culture, and needs to be stopped. To make matters worse, there are listings of vegetarian options at the elementary schools (Veggie burger, Veggie pizza, ect.) and the school cafeteria most of the time doesn't have these options.

The nutrition issue is backed up by teachers, having to deal with kids that have gotten school lunches and are having trouble concentrating on the work. This is further backed up by the boxes that the food arrives in, this is because some of them are labeled with ‘fit for human consumption.’

The broad conclusion of these facts is that the school lunch program needs to have more diverse options and be more nutritious as a whole, and there are enough facts to support that that the school lunch program needs to stop being oblivious to the issues, school lunch needs change and if the program itself cannot see that, then who can?

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