COMING UP: MARCH

By Rachel Davis and Maggie O’Hara HAWKEYE STAFF

Friday, March 31 End of 3rd Quarter All Day

MTHS

Spotlight

March 1-10 2023-2024 Registration

Prepare for next year and sign up for your classes! Make sure to complete this by March 10.

March 2-4 “RUMORS”

The drama department is putting on their spring play. Tickets are $7 for general and $5 for students with ASB, children and senior citizens.

March 8 Orchestra Quad Concert

Terrace’s orchestras will be joined by elementary and middle schoolers to perform for peers and parents alike.

March 9 Choir Quad Concert

In the annual quad concert, Terrace’s choir will sing their hearts out alongside elementary schoolers.

March 31 End of 3rd Quarter

We are reaching the final stretch of the 2022-2023. Keep your grades up and chins up! You can do this, you only have 3 months left.

EDITORS’ NOTE: The information in this calendar is taken in part from the calendar published on the MTHS webpage. Information may change. For further information on an event, contact the organizing party. For corrections, contact editor@thehawkeye.org or visit us in Room 130.

Land Acknowledgment

The Hawkeye acknowledges that our campus sits on the traditional homelands of the Suquamish, Stillaguamish and Coast Salish peoples. The lands of these tribes were taken by colonizers using the Treaty of Point Elliott, which to this day has never been fully honored. We also recognize the 29 tribes throughout Washington state. As a local news organization, we commit to remembering the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the United States and ask that our readers take a moment to respectfully reflect on the history of the land where we gather each school day. H

By Rachel Davis NEWS EDITOR

Seattle Public Schools filed several complaints against the companies in charge of operating social media outlets TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube on Jan. 6. They state these charges on accusations that these social media platforms are specifically designed to harmfully impact the mental health and well-being of students and youth.

Seattle Public Schools states that companies such as Meta and Google, some of the companies behind these apps, purposely exploit the psychology and neurophysiology of their users to get them to spend more time on the platforms. While this brings in profit and engagement for the companies, Seattle’s school district cited reports on increasing stress and anxiety among youth to argue the companies are maximizing profit at the expense of mental health.

The Kent School District also joined in the lawsuit against the same five social media outlets on Jan. 10. Both districts are even working with the same law firm, Keller Rohrback.

Unfortunately, experts following the case in court right now assume that the school districts will lose. Fordham University education law professor Aaron Saiger says it isn’t likely a “winning” case.

“It’s a very long causation chain. I don’t think the courts will be inclined to let the school district pursue it,” Saiger said. “To say, ‘We’re service providers to children whose mental health is affected by thousands of things, and we picked you,’ strikes me as a very attenuated way to understand liability under the nuisance law.”

The results of this case, whether success or failure, could have drastic effects on the future of social media. The problems broadcasted in this case bring awareness to some of the marketing tactics that these social media companies use. H