Jailan Cerecedo, Staff Writer
February 10, 2019
Filed under Point/Counterpoint, Voices
Imagine walking around school all day carrying a backpack that weighs twenty pounds. Your back starts hurting and you can hardly walk due to the pain. It hurts so bad, you have to go to a doctor. He tells you that you have back...
Charles Deng, Opinion Editor
February 10, 2019
Filed under Point/Counterpoint, Voices
Backpacks; this is what students complain about all the time. Although they may be a little too heavy, they do not weigh 100 pounds, as many students like to say. Truthfully, backpacks are not that heavy.
Most students complain...
Balu Pushkas, Co-Editor in Chief
November 27, 2018
Filed under Point/Counterpoint
Last school year, John Sevier Middle School decided to create club time, but this year, administration decided to take it away. “Was it really this bad?”, a reader may ask. The answer is yes, it was.
In 2017, Sevier Middle...
Alyssa Colhoun, Staff Writer
November 25, 2018
Filed under Point/Counterpoint
Last year, every Friday students had the chance to participate in clubs during “Tribe Time”. “Tribe Time” was an activity that took place in the last 40 minutes of each Thursday and Friday. Sadly this year, the clubs that...
Cierra Mitchell, Staff Writer
September 30, 2018
Filed under Point/Counterpoint
Ninety-Six deaths daily; 1 3,000 gun homicides yearly; seven minors die each day. Those are just a few of American gun violence statistics.
That is why the time has come to add new regulations to gun ownership.
What is gun...
Cierra Mitchell, Staff Writer
February 14, 2018
Filed under Point/Counterpoint
Good behavior trips have taken place at John Sevier Middle School for about four years. The trips happened every quarter. These trips have been spoiling students, and now they are mad that the school administration has taken them...
Lebette Long, Entertainment Editor
November 13, 2017
Filed under Point/Counterpoint
Musicals are a hotly discussed topic in recent years. Musicals are extremely popular nowadays considering the way that they can make the audience feel and how popular broadway musicals have become. Musicals like the huge hit “Hamilton”...
Nouria Edwards, Staff Writer
April 5, 2017
Filed under Point/Counterpoint, Voices
In 2014, twenty high school students from McKay High School in Salem, Oregon, were suspended for re-tweeting gossip. This is far from the only example of a national trend. Many have questioned the severity of this kind of consequence...
Harrison Barnes, Co-Editor in Chief
January 12, 2017
Filed under Point/Counterpoint
It seems as if students always complain about being too tired in the mornings, and that school should start later.
School starts at 7:45 a.m. and ends at 2:45 p.m. at John Sevier Middle School. A lot of Sevier students do extracurricular...
Symone Leeper, Staff Writer
January 11, 2017
Filed under Point/Counterpoint
Due to several problems early school start times cause, a debate has arisen across the county about whether school should start later. Clearly, the time has come for students to stand up and take action to help get schools to...
