The Colosseum stays the same, but new faces and leaders debut this football season. There’s a brand-new kind of energy around Johns Creek football this year. With a fresh coach on the sidelines and a new season right around the corner, everyone is excited for this beginning. After workouts, practices and adjusting to new coaching staff, the team is focused on showing what they can do under this new leadership...

Recent changes in both the College Board and the in-school grading system has now made it easier for students struggling in classes to pass. While some people believe that this new change may be a bad thing, it overall helps kids who are struggling in classes while leaving kids who are doing well unaffected...

As a new class enters Johns Creek High School (JCHS), freshmen ask themselves questions, raise concerns and create new goals. Like all students, the Class of 2030 will have expectations and create routines while adjusting to their new environment. Everyone begins high school with similar nerves and emotions, daunted by the scale and the importance that the next four years hold. Freshmen are thrown into a larger building, with upperclassmen and faculty holding them to high

School districts across the United States are adopting phone restrictions ranging from “phones away during class” to full-day, or “bell-to-bell bans.” Bell-to-bell bans mean that the restriction is not limited to just instructional or classroom time; it remains in effect during hallways passing periods, lunch breaks and study halls. This is the strictest of the bans, which typically employe pouches or boxes for students to leave their phones during the class period and for te

The first few weeks of high school can feel like a completely different world for a freshman. The hallways are crowded, the building is unfamiliar, and the workload is heavier than what many students are used to. For senior Sam Bae, those same hallways have become familiar. After three years of experience, Bae knows the routines, teachers and expectations. For freshman Matthias Lee, however, a normal school day is still about adjusting, meeting new people and learning how to

As teen literacy rates decline, American youth are finding new ways to consume stories without reading them, which is a shift that could have long- lasting effects. Literacy rates have been dropping rapidly, and the issue has been extremely concerning. These alarming rates lead us to question not only the future of teens in the U.S., but the future of literacy...

For decades, college has been framed as the gateway to economic stability, civic participation and innovation. Society tells students that higher education is the surest path toward opportunity, then places a hefty price that shuts many people out before they can even begin. If college is essential to the functioning of modern society, the question isn’t whether it’s valuable. The question is why access to it is still dictated by economic means.

Diving into a good book is one of life’s greatest wonders, but unfortunately, Gen Alpha has been robbed of that. Many kids, instead of reading books, have had paper perfection ripped out of their hands and swapped for iPads with unrestricted internet access, which replaces their childhood. Instead of immersing themselves in a beautiful novel or enjoying the outside world, they brainlessly drool all over their tablets...

Harvard University is now facing major lab closures and issues due to federal funding cuts, which threatens scientific innovation and educational opportunities. The science labs at Harvard have long been used to conduct diverse research, but the institution’s relationship with President Donald Trump suffered due to financial conflict, policy disputes and “deliberate indifference” such as alleged antisemitism occurring on campus...

If you are a teenager in the state of Georgia, you are bound to hear about the Georgia Tech (GT)–University of Georgia (UGA) rivalry at least once. From the stickers on the trunks of cars, to the doormats in front of doors; citizens in Georgia make it clear what school they deem is superior. Some are sick of this never-ending argument, while others view it as a clear-cut decision they could argue for hours about...