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WHAT WILL WE LEARN? Liesel Watkins speaks with her newest student, Anna Owen, and her mother during open house. One of the first questions most students ask their teachers is how they will be graded.

New school policy banishes zeros from students’ grades

Regan Tebrock, Staff Writer
November 20, 2020

SOMEBODY IS WATCHING. Scribe opinion editor Anna Harrington works on a school-issued laptop. Teachers can use software called

“Netop” allows teachers to monitor student Chromebooks

Cameron Roberts, Staff Writer
November 19, 2020

FINAL COUNTDOWN. Math teacher Liesel Watkins, seen here with her father, retired at the end of the 2019-2020 school year.

Watkins bids farewell to teaching middle school

ShayLeigh Honaker, Staff Writer
November 10, 2020

PLEASANT SMELL. Air freshners like this one are common in many classrooms. They can cause problems for students with allergies or asthma.

Harmful scents remain a problem in middle school

Meredith Mooney, Editor in Chief
October 20, 2020

MASSIVE DAMAGE. The eighth grade workroom at Sevier Middle needs a trash can to catch leaking water. The damage has caused problems for teachers trying to make copies for students.

Roof leaks strike Sevier Middle again

Aubree Puckett, Yearbook Editor
September 28, 2020

HELP IS AVAILABLE. Macy Davis, left, checks out a poster advertising the new

New anonymous reporting system arrives at Sevier Middle

ShayLeigh Honaker, Staff Writer
April 9, 2020

FALSE INFORMATION SPREADS. This conversation was one of many that took place between students during a lockdown at Dobyns-Bennett High School. No shots were actually fired during the lockdown.

Social media spreads false information during DB crisis

Sophie Williams, Staff Writer
April 8, 2020

SMALL VIRUS, BIG PROBLEMS. This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reveals the structure of the coronavirus. Since the virus has arrived in the United States, it has shut down schools and business all over the country.

COVID-19 virus shuts down Kingsport schools

Meredith Mooney, Editor
April 1, 2020

NEW AND IN CHARGE. Beth Cohen, a former Dobyns-Bennett High School administrator, has been named interim principal at Robinson Middle.

Beth Cohen steps in as Robinson Middle principal

ShayLeigh Honaker, Staff Writer
March 17, 2020

FOOD FOR STUDENTS. Kingsport City Schools has put a system in place to help provide meals for students during school closure.

KCS aims to feed students during school closure

KCS News Release
March 16, 2020

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