Roundup February 2023

The Roundup

The Roundup

Roosevelt’s student run newspaper

Editor-in-Chief

Jack Harrington (He/Him)

Assistant Editors

Zarai Hernandez (She/Her)

Abigail Henry (She/Her)

Anna Lundy (She/Her)

Staff

Grace Green (She/Her)

Mohammed Ismail (He/Him)

Zaniya Jacque (She/Her)

Mac Jordan (He/Him)

Viv Kelly (She/Her)

Amen Mneur (He/Him)

Mikal Mohammed (She/Her)

Ngirumuvugizi Nzabaho (He/Him)

Lugamba Nzongero (He/Him)

Brice Powers (They/Them)

Ja’Mya Robinson (She/Her)

Jose Rubio-Mendoza (He/Him)

Lilly Russell (She/Her)

Mackenzie Salisbury (She/Her)

Julia Stuart (She/Her)

Class Advisor

Carly Triplett (She/Her)

Table of Contents

Second Semester- (1)

How Will Vouchers Affect Roosevelt- (2-3)

Class Sizes At Roosevelt- (4)

First Date Ideas- (5)

Fighting For Our Lives- (6-9)

Transgender Rights At Risk- (10-11)

New Season On The Way- (12-13)

Activities To Join- (14)

Cyber Attack- (15)

Study Smarter Not Harder- (16-17)

Winter Formal Recap- (18)

Cars Leaving Us In 2023- (19)

Why Can’t Students Stay Engaged- (20-21)

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SecondSemester

Second Semester

By Jack Harrington and staff

It’s here

Second Semester is underway at Roosevelt. This semester will bring many fun and interesting events with it.

It started with Winter Formal. Soon there will be Culture Week. The Spring Musical is coming up, as well as Spring Break.

Senioritis is starting to hit many seniors as they see graduation around the bend, followed by graduation parties.

Students and Staff already ready for summer. Looking to hopefully get a glimpse of it in spring break with a fun trip.

Basketball is coming to an end, with both the Boys and Girls teams having played well this season.

Spring sports are getting geared up for a new season.

This Second Semester at Roosevelt will be full of many exciting things, so have fun.

How Will Affect Roosevelt

Vouchers

By Anna Lundy and Staff

Governor Kim Reynolds introduced and passed the “Student First Act” in January 2023. This bill was the first of potentially many pieces of legislation that are meant to give parents control of their students’ education. The reality of this enactment is that public schools will be greatly impacted by these vouchers.

The “Student First Act” supplies vouchers to private school students in order to help them pay for tuition. While this might sound beneficial, the funds that will supply these vouchers come from taxes. This harms public schools because these tax dollars are diverted from public school funding to go to supplying these vouchers.

Some people may argue that even though

funding is being taken from public schools these vouchers are necessary to give lowerincome students the opportunity to attend private school. According to Iowa Public Radio 88% of the students who would receive these vouchers are already attending private school, many of which have been attending since kindergarten.

“Honestly, I don’t think vouchers will impact us as much as they will negatively affect rural schools and suburban schools,” Dr. Amber Graeber, instructional coach said.

Vouchers disproportionately impact rural school districts. This is because the number of private schools in rural areas is significantly less than in urban areas. This means that public schools in rural areas have less funding, with the same number of students. Naturally, those schools are going to experience more hardship than schools in an urban district, like DMPS.

According to The Carroll Times Herald “over the last six years while the GOP has controlled Iowa’s Capitol, funding for private schools and home schooling has increased by 150% while state funding for Iowa’s 327 public

school districts hasn’t even kept up with inflation and the cost of living,”.

Public schools are already at a financial disadvantage which is why vouchers are so controversial.

According to the Des Moines Register, the Student First Act will pull $345 million of taxes once the bill is fully implemented.

Vouchers will have some impact on Roosevelt.

“Until the plan is implemented, we won’t know the full impact. I do have concerns about how it will impact public

schools. However, I’m choosing to focus on why Roosevelt is an incredible place to be, and believe that if we continue our work, we will be an attractive school that people want to be at,” Principal Steven Schappaugh said.

“Over the last six years while the GOP has controlled Iowa’s Capitol, funding for private schools and home schooling has increased by 150% while state funding for Iowa’s 327 public school districts hasn’t even kept up with inflation and the cost of living,”

-The Carrol Times Herald said.

At Roosevelt Class Sizes

By Grace Green

Roosevelt is full of classes that students want to take, how do the administrators choose the classes and the sizes? Administrators decide classroom sizes based on the type of class and how many students want or must take it. It doesn’t matter what year you are or what courses you’ve taken before, they’ll usually put you in any class that’s available. Roosevelt has the highest classroom sizes in Des Moines and the surrounding areas, and some educators are struggling to keep up.

“Teachers in our schools are crying out for help,” Roosevelt history teacher Brent Wooters said.

The average class size in our school is 29.6 students per teacher. This is almost double the average class size compared to our surrounding

schools. The number of students each teacher has is causing many to transfer to other schools, leaving Roosevelt with fewer teachers than we started off with. The big classes aren’t the only problem, staff not teaching the big classes are also a problem.

“The theory is that we have more people in our buildings that don’t teach,” Wooters said. Roosevelt has as many employees as other schools, but 24 of those employees aren’t teaching. For every 11.68 teachers, there’s one administrator. With so many staff members who don’t teach, the teachers are left with almost 30 students to teach by themselves.

Teachers often have over 200 kids in total and don’t have enough time in their day to grade tests, make lesson plans, and attend meetings. Our educators often must

bring their work home to be prepared for the next day. Larger classes not only affect teachers but students as well.

“It’s quieter there, you’re able to communicate with people more and get to know the people in the class better and work harder with the people you’re around,” Roosevelt student Lilly Russell said.

Often in larger classes, students find it harder to focus and build strong relationships with their classmates. In larger classrooms, students get less one on one interaction with their teachers, affecting their grades. With these distractions, it’s not easy for some students to focus.

“In bigger classes, people scream and throw things and I can’t see the board,” Russell said. The more kids in a class, the harder it can be to manage. With 30 students in a single room, it can be difficult for an educator to teach while also keeping students focused.

Each student has different needs in the classroom, and it can be hard to meet those needs with so many other kids also needing help.

Even though some classes are smaller than others, they all have the potential to learn. With smaller class sizes students may be able to focus better, work harder, and strive to build personal relations.

Ap bio classroom by Grace Green.

First Date Ideas

By Amen Mneur and staff

Sometimes couples can’t find a place to go for dates, especially when first meeting each other. So, here are some suggestions.

A first date could be bowling or skating. These two are fun because it’s a great start and the scene is almost perfect; you’re mostly around other people and groups of people.

“First dates really set the tone, and it’s very important on how it goes. My ideal date is the movies, cause I think the setting is perfect, food and other things. It also depends on what type of movie you guys are watching,” Harun Tongo said.

Sometimes dating can be hard at first, such as being nervous around each other, but a solution for that is to go on multiple dates. That can give a feel of how the two are around each other, can bring laughs, memories, etc. So I will be suggesting ideas and taking suggestions from others.

“For couples who have known each other for a while, I suggest making new recipes, or going on picnics. Just doing mini dates like looking through old photos and stuff like that,” Karial kak said.

“For relationships that are toxic or always falling out, I’d consider cuddling. It helps super well. It makes the two of you appreciate each other’s presence and can help realize things about each other. Also, I believe cuddling is very important because you don’t just cuddle with anyone, so the both of you will always be for one another in cuddling. Another thing I consider is making a room together. It’s pretty much self-explanatory,” Baar Jieng said.

Hopefully this has somewhat helped you learn a bit with ideas of what to do.

“ First dates really set the tone, and it’s very important on how it goes.

-Harun Tongo

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I’d consider cuddling. It helps super well. It makes the two of you appreciate each other’s presence.

-Baar Jieng

Fighting For OurLives

By Julia Stuart and staff

The momentous Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which established the right to an abortion, was decided 50 years ago on January 22. However, this anniversary will be mostly remembered as the one that wasn’t on January 22nd. In the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, which the Supreme Court decided on June 24, 2022, Roe was reversed. For 49 years, it had aided in allowing people who potentially get pregnant to make the best decisions for themselves and their families. According to the New York Times abortion ban tracker, though this is always changing, abortion prohibitions have been outlawed since then in 13 states, and 9 more have had their bans overturned by courts.

The reality that individuals in a post-Roe America are experiencing, both those who are seeking care and

those who are giving it, will be the focus of this anniversary episode. Without Roe, a crucial aspect of reproductive healthcare has been made illegal or constrained for more than 20 million individuals, placing many of them in agonizing and potentially fatal circumstances.

The US Supreme Court declared in June that the right to an abortion is not guaranteed by the US Constitution. Currently, 13 states have significantly limited access to the treatment, and another dozen or so are anticipated to do the same. It is almost unheard of for a high-income nation to move so far in the direction of outlawing what many see as a fundamental human right. To foresee the effects of such changes, health researchers are frantically working. The majority of specialists predict that abortions will

continue to occur, but that getting one will be more difficult and may even require substantial travel. The long-term impacts on abortion rates, public health, and the economic prospects for expectant mothers are less certain. At the Guttmacher Institute, a New York City-based advocacy organization for sexual and reproductive health rights, sociologist Jonathan Bearak says,

“If people want me to extrapolate from earlier data to what’s going on now, I don’t think there’s any similar evidence,” sociologist Jonathan Bearak said.

State laws range from outright prohibitions on abortion with criminal penalties to protections for abortion that include money for clinics and legal safeguards for doctors. Due to state rules in effect before the Dobbs ruling that safeguard access

even in the absence of Roe, abortion will still be permitted and accessible in some states. Another group of states, whose access to services is uneven, lack any clear legislation either defending or outlawing abortion. The provision of abortion services has already been prohibited in several states since the Supreme Court’s decision, and additional states are anticipated to follow suit in the coming weeks. Prior to the judgement, these 17 states had laws in place that would have essentially made abortion illegal when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Many of these states are in the Midwest, the Plains, which have a sizable Indigenous population, and the South, which has a high percentage of Black and Hispanic women. Women in jurisdictions where abortion is illegal would likely need to travel outside of their state to get an abortion, which would provide disproportionate barriers for persons of color seeking abortions.

In this brief, the data provided on abortions by race/ethnicity and demonstrate how overturning Roe v. Wade

disproportionately affects women of color because they are more likely to get abortions, have less access to healthcare, and deal with underlying injustices that make it harder for them to travel outside of their state for an abortion than their White counterparts. Although we refer to “women” throughout this summary, we acknowledge that other people, including some transgender men, nonbinary people, and those who identify as gender non-conforming, also get abortions. This article is based on KFF analysis of data from the American Community Survey (ACS), Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), Survey of Household Economics and Decision-making (SHED), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC) (see Methods).

In repealing Roe v. Wade, we witness the use of political influence and the Supreme Court’s voting procedure to grant some segments of society power and preference over others, affecting those segments’ capacity to make decisions about their own reproductive health. Mobility is a major obstacle to receiving abortion treatment in the US. The interplay between institutional racism and moral conservatism serves to strengthen this. Inequitable and detrimental financial, social, and health repercussions will result from Black and women of color’s lack of mobility or stasis in accessing safe and legal abortion care nationwide. For disadvantaged

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communities—specifically Black and Brown women, undocumented immigrant women, refugees, and asylum seekers—who must travel internationally to have an abortion, there are insurmountable obstacles.

“In 2022, opposing abortion is not only sexist, but also racist,” Rafia Zakaria said.

Reaffirming that, educated white women will have access to care, while women of color carry the brunt of this decision. Expectedly, internal political events in the US often have a cascading effect geopolitically.

Removing the constitutional right to abortion in the US has permitted certain states to outlaw it, which has forced women to go to other states or nations to get an abortion while also denying them choice over how they want to have children. It is a grave reproductive injustice that is not only gendered but also racially, even if the Supreme Court’s ruling primarily benefits those who advocate for, manufacture, distribute, and/or sell contraceptive medications

and technology through worldwide supply chains. Understanding the biopolitical ramifications of population control, which result from a history of slavery, colonization, and control over women, as well as the divisive and racially charged US political scene today, has geopolitical ramifications on a worldwide scale.

“I think it’s really tragic that something my grandmother had to fight for is something I have to continue to fight for today. I took Roe for granted, but now that it’s overturned the future is really unclear and scary.”

-Junior Hannah Hayes

“Roe v. Wade being overturned makes me angry because the government shouldn’t be allowed to make such a serious decision on women’s bodies while not knowing everyone’s very different and specific circumstances.”

-Senior Ella Holtz

Transgender AtRightsRisk

By Jack Harrington and staff

new bill aiming_to fight against Transgender students has been introduced by Republican legislatures in Iowa. House File 9 will attempt to take away any support for transgender students coming from their schools, as well as make it more difficult for those students to live their lives in happiness.

This bill starts with prohibiting schools from “facilitating any accommodation that is intended to affirm a student’s gender identity” that isn’t that gender identity given to them at birth. This basically will keep students from being able to be called by the pronouns they prefer and the name they prefer.

“The thing that’s going to hurt the most for teachers and students is the inability to be able to affirm people’s identities and to recognize them for who they are and what their identity is. Many students we know are going through a different journey on identity, everybody has their own journey, and people who view themselves in different ways throughout, especially their teen years when it goes into their high school years, and we know from research that not affirming those identities can damage students when it comes to social and emotional health,” Roosevelt GSA advisor and teacher Andrea Sutton said.

The other massive piece of this bill is that this will keep school officials from withholding information pertaining to a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity from the student’s parent. This could cause issues within families and push students into a situation they may not be ready for.

“This bill will require teachers and other staff to ‘out’ students to their parents if we become aware

of a student using pronouns or a name different from what’s on the birth certificate. The only way around this is for students who are out to their parents to have their parents write a letter of consent to the school specifically stating their knowledge and approval of different pronouns and name being used by staff for their student. This forces teachers out of the role of being a trusted and safe person for students to go to when struggling with gender identity,” Sutton said.

On January 31, 2023, the committee hearing was held over these bills. That night they passed committee and advanced to the Iowa House and Senate.

“I was at the Capital, and I spoke out against House File 9, and at the end of the session for people to speak out, one of the representatives sitting on the committee enthusiastically shouted out, ‘we’re going to pass this bill and it’s going to Reynolds’ desk; and then I found out later in that afternoon that it did pass the full committee,” Sutton said.

“There absolutely were many people speaking out at the Capitol. In particular House File 9, the majority of the people who spoke out were absolutely against the bill. One representative, Representative Steckman from district 53, spoke out against the bill. She used the words’ mean spirited’ to describe it. She had a stack of emails that were all negative emails opposing the bill, and after everyone had their say and after she had her say, that was when the other representative Spoke out that they ‘absolutely’ were going to pass this bill,” Sutton said.

This bill will truly affect students and Roosevelt students, as teachers will be forced to follow these new rules that could be a part of the future for students.

“There will be no option but to follow it, the extent of it right now, we don’t know. In terms of supporting kids and our marginalized group of trans kids, it’s going to be huge,” Sutton said.

Transgender people are an extremely marginalized community. Transgender youth, possibly most of all. Evidence shows how difficult it can be and the struggle that transgender and LGBTQ youth are going through.

“One in three LGBTQ youth report that they have been physically threatened or harmed in their lifetime due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity,” according to the Trevor Project. The Trevor Project also says, “40% of LGBTQ respondents seriously considered attempting suicide in the past twelve months, with more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth having seriously considered suicide.”

These statistics show how much struggle many people in the LGBTQ community have and how badly this can affect people.

“I have heavy concerns for our students, for our counselors, for our teachers, for our admin, for anyone that works with our students because school is a safe place for many of them, and this bill coming to pass means that they no longer have a safe place to be truly who they are, with people they can trust.” Sutton said.

In the coming months, there is a good chance this bill will pass and go to Governor Reynolds’ desk to be signed, and it will likely be signed into law by her. When that happens, students, teachers and school staff will be put into horrible positions that they shouldn’t be forced into.

NewSeasonOnTheWay

By Viv Kelly and staff

The girls’ soccer team has grown and developed into one of the strongest Roosevelt sports programs. The team encourages others to play there hardest while also making new players feel comfortable and excited to be a part of a team sport. The team is doing a lot of preseason training right now.

“We are lifting three times a week as well as having one indoor session to get touches on

the ball,” Captain Abby Crozier said.

The girls are getting ready to begin their official training which will consist of a lot of running, scrimmaging, and specific defensive and offensive training.

The team is led by coaches Amanda Rush, Rob Randazzo, And Brandon Hope. This year the team got a new head coach Amanda Rush.

“I think a team getting a new coach will be an adjustment, but it’ll be a good change for the team overall,” Captain Lucia Randazzo said.

The team last year had an amazing season beating suburb teams like Waukee and Johnson. Come support the team play their first game of the season March 28 against Urbandale.

The team putting the work in prior to the season in Roosevelt’s weight room.

The new Head Coach Amanda Rush has been playing soccer since she was six, she attended East through her high school years. She loves the opportunity soccer gives her to be around the game more and give back to younger players that share the same love for the game.

“It’s important for young female athletes to have a strong female coach” Rush said.

The team is looking forward to a new season with a new coach.

New Head Coach Amanda Rush

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To Join Activities

By Lilly Russell

here are tons of activities in Roosevelt. Joining a club is a great opportunity to meet new people who have similar interests to you and opportunities to learn more about the interest your passionate about. If there’s a club that you want but can’t find you can make your own.

“A student can find four friends and a teacher to sponsor their club. Then, it’s a simple application process,” Ms. Ng English teacher and club sponsor said.

Finding a sponsor and getting people together to join an activity that you all collectively enjoy will not only look good to collages but will also enrich your high school experience and learn more about an activity you enjoy doing and could do as a profession.

To start a club, you would need to find a teacher sponsor and at least four people who would join then go to activities room for a sheet and fill it out and then you would be able to have your own club. But having more people means promoting it.

“They just put up flyers around to recruit more people and I think that worked because I think there’s probably eight or ten people who come in

randomly on those days to join the club,” Brandon Hope teacher, Minecraft, and EA club sponsor said.

When having a club, you want more people to join something you’re interested in and to do that you’ll need to promote it. Spreading your club through word of mouth and putting up flyers both get more people into your club. Also putting it into snap connect can drive more people into the club because they’ll see something they are interested in and want to learn more about or know nothing about it and want to start a new hobby. Finding a club and starting a new hobby might be hard but going around and finding clubs will help you make more connections.

“The best way to find a Club is to ask your friends and teachers about them! I recommend the Fragrance Club, Poetry Club, and Chess Club,” Ng said.

If you want to find a particular club that is interesting, go to the activity room and look at the new and old clubs that you’d like to learn about or more about it.

“The benefit of being in that club is obviously people who have the same interests as you for any clubs and the

more you can be involved and tied to a teacher or finding peers and stuff to hang out with the better, you’re probably high school experience is going to be so club’s sports activities requires everything like that that you can get involved in extracurriculars,” Hope said.

Clubs aren’t always about your interest it can also be about meeting new people and finding others that could be friends that share the hobby or interest that you enjoy. Clubs are about sharing your interest and teaching others more about it or learning more about an interest you have. Joining a club could be fun and give opportunities to learn more about the interests your passionate about.

There are a bunch of clubs to join and club to make and for people to join. Getting together and doing something that you enjoy and help others with will help you make bonds with others that have a similar interest. Joining a club will also look good to collages and jobs and make your resume more credible to others.

But mostly joining a club will help you make friends and channel your passion and do something you enjoy.

Internet Attacked

By Brice Powers and staff

C

yberattack. A word that holds many frightening assumptions. And it happened to us. Being scared and confused is common, but in this article, you can learn what is going on, who’s doing what, and hopefully understand what has happened to Roosevelts CyberSystems.

“Des Moines Public Schools preemptively took the school district’s internet and network services offline this morning in response to unusual activity on the network.” In this press released by DMPS, they show that their cybersecurity detected an issue, and shut down the internet preemptively. “We are working with local, state, and national powers, specifically we

are working with our cybersecurity insurance company to make sure we are following all protocols, and we are doing everything we can to safely and securely restore and recover our data.” Matt Smith, Interim Superintendent, said this in a video press release Tuesday January 10th.

“I’ve heard everything from ransom, to maybe kids getting into trying to change grades, to people fishing for social security numbers or bank account numbers, could be any kind of identity theft type stuff” Brandon Hope, Roosevelt’s tech specialist told the roundup February 1st, 23 days after the initial shutdown, of all the ways the cyber-attack could have happened.

This cyberattack affected all DMPS. The teachers must do class differently, the students must learn differently, the parents and the school how to change how they interact. Everyone has to work together to get through this trying time, and persevere.

STUDY SMARTER

By Julia Stuart

Too many people think that putting in extensive study sessions will make them perfect, straight-A students. However, studies reveal that top student’s study less than their colleagues do; rather, they learn more efficiently.

Simply reading and re-reading texts or notes is not actively engaging in the material. It is simply re-reading your notes. Only ‘doing’ the reading for class is not studying. It is simply doing the reading for class. Rereading leads to quick forgetting. Think of reading as an important part of pre-studying, but learning information requires actively engaging in the material (Edwards, 2014). Active engagement is the process of constructing meaning from text that involves making connections to lectures, forming examples, and regulating your own learning (Davis, 2007). Active studying does not mean highlighting or underlining text, re-reading, or rote memorization. Though these activities may help to keep you engaged in the task, they are not considered active studying techniques and are weakly related to improved learning (Mackenzie, 1994).

Active learning suggestions include:

Make a topical study guide. Create problems and queries, then fully flesh out your responses. Make a quiz of your own.

Take up teaching. As if you were the instructor presenting the ideas to a class, read the facts out loud in your

Ater long weeks studying, practicing day and night, percerviering throught the tiredless night, all hard work has paid off!

own words. Draw analogies from your personal experiences. Make diagrams or concept maps to help explain the subject. Create symbols to represent ideas. Decide on the key ideas for nontechnical classes (such English, History, and Psychology) so you can clarify, compare, and reassess them. Work the problems in technical classes, then go over the solutions and their rationale. What kind of proof do they offer? What is the verdict?

Carol Baffi-Dugan, Associate Dean

of Undergraduate Advising and Director for Health Professions

Advising at Tuffs University, “One thing is true of all my premed students who are successful — they study hard! But they also study smart. Almost all of them realize the value of working with a study buddy or a small study group. That is not to say that you never study alone; you need to do work on your own as well. But working with a partner or small group has several benefits. Because the group comes together to discuss the material, it provides a level of accountability for each member, since you must come prepared and

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read the material in advance or do the problem sets. Further, when you study with someone else, you not only read the material, but you speak it out loud and hear it. You may be able to explain something to them that they don’t understand and vice versa. Also, you can come prepared with tough potential test questions you have written on the material, and they can do likewise as you exchange questions.”

Julie Chanatry, Chairperson of the Health Sciences Advisory Committee and Chemistry Instructor at Colgate University, “My successful students quickly recognized that what worked for them in high school very often does not work for them in college. Using time efficiently and taking care of their health play a large part in their academic success.”

Planning and being organized will enable you to actively study for your classes. Organize your materials before starting your active review by topic when preparing for an exam (Newport, 2007). On the syllabus, professors frequently list subtopics. To help you organize your materials, use them as a guide. As an illustration, compile all the resources for one subject (such as PowerPoint notes, textbook notes, articles, assignments, etc.) and arrange them in a pile. Study by subjects, tagging each pile with the relevant topic.

The Study Cycle breaks down the several components of studying: previewing, attending class, reviewing, studying, and making sure you understand. Frank Christ

devised this system. Although each stage might appear simple at first glance, students all too frequently try to cut corners and lose out on chances for effective learning. A crucial opportunity to learn in several learning modalities (reading, hearing, and speaking) and to gain from repetition and distributed practice (see #3 below) will be lost if you choose to skip a reading before class because the lecturer will cover the same topic in class. Making sure you don’t pass up chances to learn effectively will be made easier by realizing the significance of each stage of this cycle.

“Distributed practice”—spacing out your study over multiple brief periods of time over several days and weeks—is one of the most effective learning strategies (Newport, 2007). The best method is to dedicate a brief amount of time to each lesson each day. Even while your overall study time will be the same (or less) than one or two all-nighters in the library, you will learn the material more thoroughly and remember it for a longer period of time, which will help you score an A on the final. Not how long you study, but how you spend that time, is what matters. Long study sessions result in a lack of focus, which hinders learning and memory retention.

You need control over your schedule if you want to spread out your studies over multiple days and weeks. You can include consistent active studying periods for each class by keeping a list of daily chores to do.

Make an effort to participate in each lesson each day. Be explicit and reasonable when estimating the amount of time, you will spend on each work; your list shouldn’t contain more items than you can feasibly finish in a single day.

For instance, you might work on a few arithmetic questions each day as opposed to doing them all in the hour before class. In history, you can actively study your course materials for 15 to 20 minutes each day. As a result, even though your studying time will remain the same, you will be studying for all your classes in quick bursts as opposed to just one. This will support concentration, task management, and information retention.

There are many different methods to studying and not every one may suit you, but you will profit from knowing how to study properly for the rest of your life. Effective study techniques need a lot of time and patience to develop. If you use these suggestions, you’ll be well on your way to figuring out which method of studying suits you the best so you can ace your upcoming exam!

W i n t e r Recap

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o start the new year, Roosevelt hosts the annual Winter Formal dance.

The dance starts when you walk into the big gym. The DJ playing music and students dancing along to it. Students dance along to songs such as “Time of our lives” by Pitbull, “Baby” by Justin Bieber, and “Starships” by Nicki Minaj.

“The dance was very loud, and everyone was either dancing or sitting from dancing too much,” Sophomore Ava Schlepphorst said.

Heels covered sections of the bleachers, as well as jackets and purses. As many know it’s quite difficult to dance in heels for a long period.

“I took my heels off within the first 10 minutes,” Junior Ella Beveridge said.

wearing their dresses and suits, skirts, and even sweats. Students from other schools even joined the Roosevelt students as their guests.

The dance slowly died down around 8:50 when everyone had the last few songs to dance to before leaving.

“Winter Formal was a great night for me. I had a lot of fun dancing with my friends and enjoying the music selections,” Senior Skylnn Jones said.

The gym was filled with disco lights. Flashing from color to color. Playing songs from multiple genres.

“Time of our lives,” Junior Alexis Voge said was the best song of the night. She loved being able to dance to that song with her friends.

By Mackenzie Salisbury and staff

On January 28, the dance went from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. students came in throughout the night as time passed on. From

“Low” Sophomore Terra Duerksen said the Flo Rida song was her favorite of the night.

It was a fun night for all who attended.

ITheCarsLeaving2023 In BYJoseRubio-MendozaandStaff

In 2023 is the year that many different models of cars will no longer be made at all. How could this affect the car community? How could this affect those that want to buy an older car?

Well for starters some of the models that are being discontinued is the Subaru STI, the Acura NSX, Ford GT, infinity Q60, Mercedes A-class, as well as a few others. so how is it that these discontinuations of cars will effect marketing?

Since these models won’t be any models being made prices will rise heavy not just for those cars that were made from 2010-2020, but the cars that are way older made from 19902005.

Some people believe this is a good thing for some cars to get discontinued a lot of other people disagree with this.

“Because of the discontinuation of certain cars, it could make a few people sad because they won’t be able to see their dream cars get built anymore,” said someone in the car community.

“I think it’s good, gives an opportunity for new models and better work to get put out. Would be cool to see in the future some of the cars get like a retro and come back,” another person in the car community said.

Meanwhile other people believe it’s a good idea for companies to stop making a model and later on in the future make a comeback.

Some students are either engaged or not engaged in the classroom. It is very easy to get distracted in the classroom while you are supposed to be learning something. There are a lot of ways students can get distracted in the classroom. It can depends on someone’s way of learning, that can

Why Can’t Students Stay Engaged?

help them be engage in the classroom. One thing that affects students’ engagement in the classroom is their phones. A lot of students constantly go on their phones during class and don’t pay attention in the classroom.

Once Students get on your phone you won’t be able to get off it until the class is over. There are a lot of things students can do to not be distracted on your phone and that will help you engage in the classroom while learning.

By Mohammed Ismail and staff

Some studnets says that their phones mostly distract them during class. Whenever they get bored in class they start using their phones in class causing them to get even more distracted in class. Once students get on their phones, is when they stay on it until the end of class causing you to not engage in the class work anymore. If students have things that distract them from learning, then there must be something that will help students engage

in the classroom. I feel like there are ways that helps students engage in the classroom when learning. Other students say that whenever they have friends in their classes it motivates them to listen and do his work even more in class because of them. Another thing they say is that the teacher they have say they are only interested in the classroom work if the teacher has a very interesting way of teaching and is not making the class work boring. There are a lot of ways you can do to avoid being distracted in the

classroom. A lot of students try to avoid the things that distract them from learning. Even the teachers try to help the students from being distracted in the classroom. Students also say that they try to turn off their notifications as well as to power off their phone during class, so they tend not to go on their phones even more than before. If that does not work, they just put it in their backpacks, so they do not use it. They also try to get even more involved in the classroom work, so they get distracted with the work, rather than their phones.

Some students just put their phones away during class or put their phone a do not disturb so they aren’t tempted to go on it when they get a notification. Another thing students say that helps them engage in the classroom is when the classroom and teacher have good energy helping students engage even more in the classroom.