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Letter from the editor

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e wanted to provide a fun filled issue along with some more serious topics. The message behind it is to see how far we have come since Covid first began, the struggles of athletes, teacher shortages and student struggles in general. We also talked about the fun of summer, where to watch good shows, and whether the schools switch from Chromebooks or iPads was better.

We wanted to make the colors tie into the overall theme of this issue. The colors consist of purple, pink, blue, green, red, orange and yellow. So with the theme talking about the summer, incorporating warmer tone colors helped convey that. The cooler tones balance the tones out and are mostly used on the more serious topics.

Overall we wanted to make something kids could relate to. We’ve come so far since the beginning of Covid, we went from no physical contact and on travel to now we are able to travel and hug our friends again! School has changed too, we went from blurry zoom calls to in person learning.

This issue was started in the 2021-2022 school year in April and was finished by a new staff in the 2022-2023 school year. We have attempted to release the best and most accurate issue that we can.

Thank you so much for reading our staffs hard work and we hope you enjoy this issue!

Katie Wright Co-editor-in-chief

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PANDEMIC CAUSES EDUCATI

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his year has definitely been a rough year for students, administrators, and teachers. So much so that this school year has caused a large number of teacher shortages to occur.

According to The New Teacher Project (TNTP), there has been such a large amount of teacher shortages that some Arkansas students are being taught by educators that are not certified in the subject of teaching.

TNTP found that the main reasons for teacher shortages included: lack of credentials to teach efficiently, low teacher payment, and prospective teachers who aren’t familar with certain programs that are beneficial to a student’s learning environment.

“We havebeen very lucky where we have people that are willing to go above and beyond, and Jason Hay, principal cover classes andPhoto: Submitted their preps.” Jason Hay, principal said, “Administrators have subbed in some [...] but, we’ve not been as affected as most people.”

In a poll given out to teachers on how stressful this year has been for them, majority have said that this school year has been especially stressful.

“I think everybody being back in the building and just getting used to everybody being together has been the most stressful part,” Lauren Mcknight, a Family Consumer Science teacher said, “Every year since the building has opened, it’s been different in some way or another. We still haven’t got into a routine yet because of the pandemic.”

Many teachers also have said that assisting their students and quarantined students have had quite an impact this school year.

“This year has been a struggle,” April McWilliams, a science teacher said. “I think that the biggest struggle has been working with students who haven’t been at school for a year and a half (who were virtual). And then, we were out the spring semester.”

According to the poll, most teachers rated this year to be an “8” when asked - on a scale of 1-10 - how stressful this year has been. “[Teaching] looks really easy on the outside to some, but it’s hard,” Hay said. “Really good teachers caer about their kids and they’re worried about if they’re not in school, if they’re sick [and] they’re worried about if they’re getting caught up with their homework. They don’t want kids to fall behind or fail.”

To prevent teacher shortages, teachers are getting creative to prevent burn-out for themselves as

"[Teaching] looks really easy on the outside to some, but it's hard. Really good teachers care about their kids and they're worried about if they're not in school, if they're sick [and] they're worried about if they're getting caught up with their homework. They don't want kids to fall behind or fail."

-Jason Hay, principal

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well as their students.

Over half of the “Somemembers of the times everybody needs a break honNational Education estly.”

Mcknight said. “There have Association union been a few days are considering where we have in certain classes, leaving teaching at least - if there the are a lot of people according to gone or something results of a like that, we’ll take a ‘stress-reliever poll published in day’ where we foFebruary. cus on relieving our stress and trying to calm down because it can get so overwhelming with trying to keep up with everything.”

Students can also have a role in preventing teacher shortages.

“Everybody’s under strain and stress and kids doing what the teacher asked without them having to ask eight hundred times to get their homework done.

And showing some patience (I think that’s the biggest thing),” Hay said. “Everybody’s fighting a battle we don’t know anything about. So, just now, extra patience [and] understanding. Times are tough, we’ll get through it.”

Writer: Molly Kitchens

April McWilliams and Kori Kordsmeier, science teachers, pose outside their classroom.

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Teacher Shortages in States According to The Learning Policy Institute, the U.S. Department of Education shows that...

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states reported special education teacher shortages

states reported math teacher shortages

states reported science teacher shortages

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ESSER Funds Offers COVID-19 W ith COVID-19 impacting the schools across America, the government has provided money intended to help students. Dr. Karen C. Walters, the Superintendent, gave some insight on what amounts of money was used for each need. [One “pot of money”] was from IDEA funds.

“Updating six playgrounds so there are more handicap accessible playground equipment for our students who are in wheelchairs,” Dr. Walters said.

The ground covering will also be replaced with turf in some areas to make mobility easier for the students. IDEA funds are from the federal government specifically for students or individuals who are in the special education portion.

ESSER 3 funds have also been applied to help the students. The ESSER 3 funds was the largest sum of money, adding up to 7.7 million dollars. One federal requirement is that 20 percent of the ESSER 3 funds are to be used for student learning. “A lot of it is used for beefing up our literacy program,” Dr. Walters said.

One advancement has been Lexia which is a literacy program for the K-9 curriculum.

The ESSER 3 funds were also used to purchase the new iPads and improve the HVAC systems in the schools. The HVAC systems are being improved so there is better fresh air to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Release Fund (ESSER Fund) is intended to support attempts by the state to keep the school districts safe and open such as repairing certain parts of the school, planning for schools being closed for a long amount of time and training.

When it comes to assembling a plan, the district applied steps to get it approved.

“We drafted a plan, we shared it with different people within the district and then once we had a drafted plan, we had a group of parents that we brought in, we had some elementary parents and some secondary parents trying to have a representation of groups of students. We shared our plan with

What About Athletes?

The regulations, quarantining, and the overall experience has been taken away from athletes- the impact Covid-19 has had on extracurriculars starts to beg the question: Should I quit?

“I’m gonna quit because after COVID it was hard to get back into it, I haven’t learned how to balance my schedule again,” former competitive gymnast, Ariadna Flores said.

With the pandemic came the burnout, depression, and isolation, and other problems that athletes have faced in the past couple of years.

“We had to wear masks, we had to social distance, sanitize before each activity and sanitize equipment, and we worked out on Zoom,” Flores said.

The uncertainty has brought a lot of worry

upon both young and older athletes due to the fact that it could have affected their playing seasons and training, and it did.

Flores adminited, “yeah, I got really lazy with all my sports, it’s kinda hard to find motivation.”

Not only did covid impact the athletes, but the people who helped them become the athletes they are today.

“I guess I have had to adapt to a new protocol that makes it harder, harder to add new procedures on top of the old ones,” 8th grader cross country coach Nicole Bradbury says.

Still, not every change is for the worse.

“I;ve had twice as many[athletes trying out] as far as I know,” Bradbury says.

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Relief for District them and asked them for their feedback and then we took the plan that we had to our board for their approval,” Dr. Walters said.

With virtual learning altering the previous school year, students’ mental health was another issue that was discussed, but new federal funds were not used.

“We have not used any of the ESSER funds for mental health services. It is part of Bryant’s budget every year even before COVID. For mental health services we have case managers, we have two behavioral health specialists and of course all of our counselors. As far as mental health, I think one of the biggest things that has helped out students is being back on-site and not being virtual,” Walters said.

A percentage of the money was being used for materials such as masks and gloves for COVID-19 safety.

“I know on PPE alone that we’ve spent over $300,000 just on masks and gloves and things like that. We’ve spent a total of probably a half million dollars,” Walters says.

Even with new improvements in this plan, a way to get a clearer picture of how much it has advanced is to compare.

“We received so much more money than past plans. We were able to do a lot more. We received almost or about 2 and a half times more of it for revenue for this most recent plan than in past plans,” Walters said.

There were more professional development for teachers, more resources for students with the iPads, new curriculum and the ability to do the HVAC systems. The district also gained two points of contact for the district so parents could call and report if their child was positive or exposed and had to quarantine. It was easier on the school nurses because they were already busy, Walters said.

With the even better advancements, there are still issues that haven’t been resolved including

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conflicts with the Title 1 Formula and poverty within the district.

We still have that money so we’re still able to spend. The way districts received that money was based on a Title 1 from the federal government and so it was based on the amount of poverty students that you had.

“When you look at it from a perpetual amount that we received, Bryant received one of the lowest amounts in the state. To give you an example, Hot Springs School District has about a third of the students that we have but they received three times the amount of ESSER funds that we received,” Walters said. “I was disappointed that they used that formula for every time they gave us those funds. I wish that they would’ve used a pre-pupal amount for one of the times they gave us money, at least. When you break it down per student, we have one of the lowest amounts in the state. With older buildings and with school districts, there are always needs that we are not always able to take care of,” Dr. Walters said.

Title 1 is a program that provides funds based on enrollment, reduced lunch percentage and other data.

The district is still planning on bettering the system in the future.

“I think that at the end of this school year we’re going to kind of look and see you know where we are, what did we spend, how do we need to revise our plan, and I think right now we still don’t know how to make those adjustments we have to wait a few more months,” Dr. Walters said. writer: Erin Taylor

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What a Crash Let’s rewind a bit, December 2019 China had a virus outbreak. In early 2020 it started to hit the US. Shops started closing, restaurants, airports, schools, plans got canceled, everything and everyone went into lock down. Grocery stores were closed after being scavenged for food, toilet paper and needed supplies for what is ahead of them Quarantine was a very difficult time for many people, losing ones they love or feeling lost. “That was a really difficult time, I was worried about my students and their families.” Tara Dickie replies.

Covid-19 has heightened anxiety levels especially in the youth.

“I believe we all need to be a little more gentle with one another and take the time to listen to each other.”

Mental health has brought back physical health and we are dealing with those effects now as a society. I think it will take some time for kids and adults to re-learn how to interact with one another in thoughtful ways. When the world took a toll we all were all isolated from each other to some limit. Technology helps us to connect although it’s not the same as face to face. .

The Internet is a crazy and wonderful place where anyone can say anything without any consideration. Children having access to a device could help them figure out specific things about themselves.

We did a google form for the children of the BJHS with a ratio of 70.9% saying the internet has changed how they act and who they are, but dragging along a no with 29.1%.

“I think it affected me at a young age, making me shy and uncomfortable with most activities.” Sammy Ali replies. 55 people replied to the google form we sent out, people got their first device 36.4% at 6-8 years old 9-11 years old with a whopping 41.8% and 12-14 years old 18.2%.

The way children see the world and who they are as a person has been decided on what they see on the internet. People’s opinions change when they learn more about a certain topic or hear others thoughts on that subject.

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s you’re sitting back in your comfortable chair As shameful as to the calm melody of your favorite playlist, it might feel to alyou begin scrolling through social media most feel lost in the posts until you stumble upon a post that talks crossroads of the about the importance of one’s future. Putting your fear that failure might phone down, you might begin to feel anxious or excome in one’s life, it citedly curious as you wonder the question: what do I is truly ordinary and want to do in life? is bound to happen As funny as it might seem to be nervous or sooner or later, most even scared from of the time with it bethis thought, many ing out of our control. young people com“We learn from monly experience Chance Thompson, 8th our mistakes,” Brenthis. According to grade student da Rodgers, a counan article in Verywell Photo: Jocelyn Kirby selor at BHS said.

Mind written by Brit“It’s just like a spelltany Loggins (and ing bee, you don’t remember the words you spelled medically reviewed right, you remember the words you missed. So, makby Daniel B. Block, ing mistakes is a part of growing. If you never make MD), this fear of the mistakes, you’re never going to grow and improve. future can actually Fear is natural (everybody has fear). Fear kinda gives be titled as “anticipa- us a motivation to get prepared. So if we didn’t have a Nirhra Martin, 8th grade tory fear.” If one has little bit of fear about something, we wouldn’t work on student this fear, they might it. But, you gotta make mistakes to grow.”

Photo: Jocelyn Kirby worry or dread the As much as one might wish to do well and sucoutcomes to future occassions, fear social interactions ceed in life, perfection is never a guarantee. And yet, with others and avoid experiences that may not have this isn’t to say that imperfections are the worst things ended well in the past. that oculd happen in one’s life. As humans, we might But, why? One might still wonder. Why might I feel as though imperfections or failing are the worst fear the future? There are many possible answers to things that could possibly ever happen to us. And yet, this interesting question. imperfections too are always okay now and then.

“I feel like some students’"If you never make According to a column in The Atlantic fear of the future stems from a fear written by Arthur C. Brooks, the fear of of failure,” Jenny Watkins, a coun-mistakes, you’re failure has had a large impact on our soselor at BHS, said. “It might be thatnever going to grow ciety and how becoming happier from students who dive right into a plan fearing failure is not to eliminate fear and are okay with processing theirand improve. Fear itself but rather become more fearless future goals are conscious of theis natural (every- (to essentially have courage to help you support that surrounds them - even through struggles instead of being so if they fail. Students need to knowbody has fear). terrified at the thought of fear). that they have a safe palce to landFear kinda gives us After interviewing a few students reif they put themselves out there and garding their future, we found that some try new things but do not succeed. Ata motivation to get students feared the future because they the end of the day, something will al-prepared.” wanted to do good in their future proways be learned, whether they learn fession or natural stress that comes with that they like it or hate it or learn that-Brenda Rodgers, the unknown of the future. And we also they can or can’t do something.” found that some students felt that there BHS counselor

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was no reason to fear the future.

“There are positives and negatives in every profession,” Watkins said. “If you choose the right profession, there will be more good days than bad. It is important to not focus on the bad. You will be hired for a job for a reason and as long as you do your best, that is all that can be asked of you. Remember that you cannot be all things to all people and you will never make everyone happy or save everyone or helpe everyone or make every sale. We are all human. It is getting back up and tackling the task again that is the most important.”

As hard and confusing as it might seem to accept the fact that failure and mistakes will occur it can also be oddly comforting, as imperfections can highlight the value of one’s hard work and dedication as well as their own perseverance.

“High school is a fun time, a growing time, and a hard time.” Rodgers said. “But when all is said and done, your life is not high school. Once you walk across that stage is when your life really begins. Your future starts then. So, I would tell any student, no matter what you have been in the past, you can always change. You can always become the person you want to be.”

Though we do not want to mess up as humans, potential - otherwise known as success - is not often obtained from doing things effortlessly perfect the first time, it’s learning from mistakes to understand the earning of true success (and when one achieves success in life, satisfaction from learning from mistakes is the common outcome).

The counselors at BHS also want students to know something imporant. “Coming to the counselor’s office is not a place you come to if you’re having a bad day all the time’” Rodgers said. “We’re a resource. Let’s say you just wanna learn something new or you want to ask anything, we’re a safe place.

Coming up here is not just scheduling (we don’t just do schedules, even though that’s what most people think we do). But, I want junior high [students] or even anybody to know that all of us up [at BHS], we work together. We want to hear the good times that happen in you life. [...] We’re gonna make sure you graduate.

So, don’t worry about that. The counselors are gonna make sure you graduate.”

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Preparing For Greatness

3 planning methods to ease the stress of future occassions

Keeping A Planner

Making To-Do Lists Setting Goals for Yourself

Whether you’re stressing about a future exam or worried you might forget that one important event, keeping a planner can ease that stress as well as providing yourself with a more organized lifestyle.

Ever feel overwhelmed with homework or never-ending tasks to complete? Not to worry! Making to-do lists can provide you with a step-by-step method of completing tasks on time without the stress.

When it comes to planning your future, your goals are a key foundation. Setting goals for yourself can not allow you to achieve what you desire but setting goals can also allow you to explore new opportunites.

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Marching orders;The benefits ROTC is a Reserved Officer Training Course at Bryant Junior High. The ROTC program helps behavioral development, and teaches discipline.

Sir Andrew Rodriguez is the leader of the ROTC program.

Students in the program earn required credits for graduation. “The first semester, you actually get PE credit. We do mile runs, push ups, and sit ups. It just betters yourself, it’s up to you (and) is not for a grade. In the second semester you get your health credit, so we’ll do a few weeks of that versus 18 weeks of health,” Rodriguez said.

What actually is ROTC? [“It is a reserved officer training course. It is an elective course and gives an opportunity to learn different things from space science, land navigation, and basic marching,” Rodriguez said.

“Active [Duty] members have to retire at some point of their career, and as they do the actual ROTC program allows us to roll over and to be an instructor. We have to have a minimum bachelor's degree, at least some fitness, professional appearance, and a clean record. They want someone that shows a positive role model,” Rodriguez said

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STREAMING SER Netflix

When you think of how to watch movies, what streaming site comes to mind?

Netflix can be considered as the most popular online streaming platform. It has shows, movies, interactive things, etc. Netflix is good when it comes to boredom and bingeing. During quarantine, everyone relied on streaming services.

People would spend most of their time laying in bed watching movies. The only bad thing about Netflix, is that you can spend hours on it. Netflix can be very addicting for some, and could take time from doing anything active. The top ten movies and shows on netflix are, (1. Inventing Anna) (2. Love Is Blind) (3.Sweet Magnolias) (4.

All Of Us Are Dead) (5. Ozark) (6. The Tinder Swindler) (7. Despicable Me 2) (8. Tall Girl 2) ( 9. Catching Killers), and at number ten, Raising Dion.

83.33 percent of students like Disney Plus

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HBO Max is a large ranged streaming service , used by many to watch well known shows like Euphoria , Games of Thrones , and Gossip Girl. HBO Max has grown as many teens and young adults watch these popular shows.

While some movies are still in theaters , HBO Max has them ready to watch at home safe away from COVID-19.

Disney Plus Disney Plus, launched for users November 12, 2019. Even though the site is only two-yearsold, it has already climbed its way to one of the top streaming choices for families. The price to use the site begins at seven dollars and ninety-nine cents a month, so seventy-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents a year.

Upgrades Unlike other sites, Disney Plus does not include a thirty day free trial. Although the free trial isn’t included, an upgrade to the Disney Plus Bundle for thirteen dollars and ninety-nine cents. The bundle includes a subscription to ESPN Plus and Hulu. This saves money in the process by paying for them in one monthly cost. Another upgrade is the cost for ad free Hulu on the bundle. The cost to get rid of the ads is nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents a month.

Founders The site was founded by CEO Bob Iger and talks of Disney having a streaming site since 2016.

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VICE STANDOFF Amazon Prime Hulu

Amazon Prime is one of the best online streaming platforms. Unlike netflix, Amazon has brand new movies. The only downfal is that with prime, you have to purchase for some movies. However, it is worth it in the end. Amazon also has a variety of shows. Even though you have to pay for some movies, Amazon has a lot of other amazing movies you can watch without purcahsing.

16.67 Percent of students like Hulu

Hulu, launched on October 29, 2007, is a popular streaming site known for having many channel networks offered. The price is only six dollars and ninety-nine cents a month and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents a year, however if you want the luxury of having no ads, it bumps up the cost to twelve dollars and ninety-nine cents a month.

Available Networks The fourteen-year-old site offers many channel networks such as A&E, ABC, ABC News, Adult Swim, AMC, BBC America, BET, Bloomberg Television, Bravo, Cartoon Network, CBS, Cheddar, CINEMAX, CMT, Comedy Central, Complex, Discovery, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, E!, Epix Originals, ESPN+, Food Network, FOX, Fox News, Freeform, FX, HBO Max, History, Hulu Original Series, IMAX, Investigation Discovery, Lifetime, MTV, NASA, Nat Geo Wild, National Geographic, NBC, Nickelodeon, pocket. watch, SHOWTIME, Starz, SYFY, Tastemade, TBS, Telemundo, TLC, TNT, TV Land, Universal Kids, and finally VH1.

Founders Hulu was founded by CEO of Time Warner, Jason Kilar and American business executive Beth Comstock.

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Chromebook A few years ago, the idea of a switch to iPads was presented by the Director of Technology, Jeremy Cunningham and the Bryant Schools Apple representative, Mark McDougal at the time, there wasn’t enough funding to make the change, but during February of 2021, when ESSR funds became available to our district, the iPad discussion was revisited. It was a positive and quick decision to spend it on iPads, said Dr. Angie Dischinger, assistant superintendent of secondary education.

Now that it’s been a year with the iPads, there’s been talk of which is better: Chromebooks, or iPads?

Chromebooks have been the main device students used at school for many years. There had been no major or noticeable problems with them, and they were familiar and comfortable for students to use.

Chromebooks didn’t get frustrating to use, and were cheaper than the iPads are.

Compared to iPads, Chromebooks were fast. If a Chromebook had issues, it would be sent to the tech department and the student would be able to borrow an extra Chromebook, without having to trade in something valuable. If common sense was used when handling Chromebooks then they would work fine. A major contrast to the iPads. It’s very easy to break an iPad. Even just having it in backpacks wrong can cause it to crack- we’ve seen it happen before. There aren’t even screen protectors to negate any possible damage. Plus, iPads are very expensive to fix, a price which is normally paid by the student and their parents.

Since Chromebooks are computers, Google apps, such as Docs and Drive, are much easier to use. The one with the most glaring difference to most people is Slides. On the Chromebook, students are able to do lots of things, like add animations, word art, build themes, and more. On the iPads, it is much more difficult to get around, and most things can’t even be done. On Gmail, images don’t even work most of the time. Images have to be sent to Google Drive to be able to be seen. It’s frustrating to use the Google apps on iPads, and not being able to do most things

just adds fuel to the fire.

Chromebooks stayed at the school, meaning students had no responsibility over them at home.

Students wouldn’t have to worry about remembering to charge the Chromebooks at home, or remember to put them in backpacks. On the iPads, battery life can deteriorate very quickly. It isn’t an uncommon sight to see other students asking around for a charger for their iPad. Quite different to the Chromebooks, where it’s rare to see them needing charging.

Chromebooks were familiar to use, and most students know the insides-out of how to work them.

There’s a Slides presentation in science? Easy! Just go to Drive, make a new Slide, and work on it with little to no frustration. There was a touchpad, so no bumbling fingers would have to fumble on a screen just to change the size of a textbox. With iPads, there’s a learning curve for both students and teachers.

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V.S. iPads iPads are a fresh start for students at our school. No major complaints have been made about the iPads. iPads are newer and easier to use, so no need to worry about having to get fixed several times. Even if there is a problem, it can easily be taken to get fixed and another iPad or an old Chromebook can be used until the owner’s is fixed, which doesn’t take long at all. iPads aren’t very hard to take care of considering that they’re small and light weight. All that is needed to do when a student gets home is plug it up to charge.

The school also provides a charging station at lunch to charge the iPads and not every class will require iPads use, so it can be charged then. Unlike Chromebooks where people had to wait in a long line with a bunch of tangled wires and trying to figure who’s cord is who’s.

The next day, most people come to find out that someone unplugged the wire to someone else’s chromebook, so it’s not charged.

Chromebooks have a slow mouse that gets frustrating after waiting for it to actually work. iPads are touch screens, so we don’t have to wait on the mouse.

Although some apps require a stylus, like SketchesSchool and sometimes just to help navigate through the iPad better, styluses aren’t expensive. Stylus don’t have to be the fancy $100 ones, they can be the $5 ones from Walmart. Sometimes, teachers have them in their room for students to use, so this really shouldn’t be the problem with iPads.

It could be argued that apps are harder to use on the iPads, but is that true? A Google classroom notification pops up and it’s another assignment as per usual, but wait it’s a document. This will be difficult to do, iPads make it so much harder. Once you understand how the iPads work it’s much easier to use.

All that’s needed to do is instead of clicking the arrow icon, look at the top right corner of the screen, there will be a little box with an arrow pointing upward. That will take the document to Google Docs and make it easier to use. So iPads don’t have to be hard to use, we just need to figure them out more!

It may seem like iPads are easier to break, however, this is not the case. Without actually testing, we wouldn’t be able to find which is easier to break. Kids are reckless so either way, iPads and Chromebooks

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could both easily be broken.

Both Chromebooks and iPads have many pros and cons each. Chromebooks are more comfortable to use and less expensive. iPads allow for more creativity and flexibility. In the end, there must be one winner, and majority votes for the iPads. The iPads are new and exciting, and allow for many new opportunities for students.

“I believe that providing a device to every secondary student outweighs the extensive learning curve and other difficulties that we have encountered so far. As a team, we are still learning how to best support our teachers and students using iPads.”

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WHAT

SUMMER PERSON ARE YOU? 1. What do you like to do in your free time? a. Read a book or play a video game b. Hangout with my friends c. Relax and take a nap d. Go have fun a different places 2. What is your ideal vacation? a. Staying at home b. Go to the beach with friends c. At a hotel or condo, so I can relax d. Anywhere but my house!

3. Where do you like to go swimming? a. I don’t really like swimming b. The pool c. The lake d. The beach 4. What is your favorite drink? a. Tea b. Lemonade c. Coffee d. Soda 5. How many out-of-state places have you been? a. 0-3 b. 6-7 c. 4-5 d. 8 or more 6. Where are you happiest? a. Somewhere quiet b. At the pool c. In my bed, taking a nap d. On a vacation, far from home 7. What is your favorite type of food? a. Pizza b. Light snacks c. Takeout d. I can’t pick one 8. Where do you like to hangout with friends? a. Online b. At the pool c. At a restaurant d. In the car on a road trip

Mostly A’s: The Hermit You like to stay inside as much as you can during the summer. It’s not that you don’t like people, but why go out when you can play with them online?

When quarantine first started, you probably spent hundreds of hours playing Animal Crossing. You’re a reserved, introverted person, but once people get to know you, you’re rarely Mostly B’s: The Pool Partier You like to spend summers with your friends. Whether it be at the pool or an amusement park, you all have a great time.

You’re almost always the one texting the group chat to start planning a new activity.

You’re an extroverted person and the life of the party.

Mostly C’s: Workaholic By choice or force, you work all summer. While your friends are all out having fun, you’re stuck at a school activity or job that requires a lot of your time. You’ve probably considered quitting, but you’re in too deep now to get out of it. You’re a busy person, and like to relax when you have the time. You have to-do lists galore, and are very productive and reliable.

Mostly D’s: Avid Tourist You like to spend all summer anywhere but home.

You love visiting different places and likely want to visit all 50 states and at least one foriegn country. You love daydreaming about vacations. When school starts you have a million stories. You’re a fun, bubbly person who is always ready to try new things.