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Volume 4, Issue 1 October 1, 2021
ROCKET PRESS Your School. Your Magazine.
System Overload! How teens today deal with stress and anxiety
High School Welcomes New Teacher - PG 5
Taj Ma-Hill Nears Completion - PG 6
The Day The World Stood Still - PG 11
CONTENTS NEWS JONES SETTLES IN AS NEW COUNSELOR - PG 4 HIGH SCHOOL WELCOMES NEW TEACHER - PG 5 MATH DEPARTMENT GETS STUDENT TEACHER FOR FALL SEMESTER -PG5 TAJ MA-HILL - PG 6 CHANGES A PLENTY FOR THE RHHS SPED DEPARTMENT - PG 7 HIGH SCHOOL BRINGS BACK REMOTE STUDENTS - PG 8 USD394 ALTERS COVID POLICIES - PG 9 CONTENTS--2
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HOW I COPE WITH STRESS AND ANXIETY - PG 12-13
Feature THE DAY THE WORLD STOOD STILL- PG 10-11
Photos pg 14-15
Payton Jackson and Sydney LaKous dive for the ball in the Rockets’ game with Augusta. Senior Trystan LaCoss leads the marching band in the playing of the national anthem.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SYDNEY LAKOUS
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S A N I S E L T T E S S E N JO R O L E S N U NEW CO By Pierce Prob as co
ar at nselor this ye u co r io n Se rio b at is the new Jun who took a jo s t, e n n a Jo rr y Ta sa y d n se a Li ng C School, replaci Rose Hill High School. Derby Middle couver, s raised in Van a w d n a n o g , Ore has enjoyed rn in Portland 2018 and she in s Jones was bo sa n a K to e and e moved ery supportiv v is e Sh Washington. Sh . ts se skies and sun the beautiful ents. staff and stud e th f o l fu lp e h is already ear going and y l o o h sc e th cited to get She is very ex enjoying it. ut being rite thing abo o v fa y “M s. e ,” said Jon ed, and then “I love my job el heard, valu fe rs e th o g in rward help to move in a fo a counselor is s e rc u so re h em wit connecting th direction.” g into es since movin g n e ll a ch le p some very sim Jones has had seling office. the new coun ving into my at I’m still mo th g is n e e b e v a h ges once everythin d le tt se re o “Some challen m el nes. “I will fe office,” said Jo in its place.”
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Jones has had a bi g impact on the st udents at Rose Hill High Sc hool with her posi tive attitude and minds et coming into wor k everyday. Some of the best parts of Jo nes day consist of mee ting new students and staff face to face everyday.
Jones especially en joys the in person schooling going on this year and plan s on staying at Rose Hi ll High School as lo ng as she possibly can.
Seth Boxburger, a student teacher at RHHS, is teaching alongside geometry teache r Jessica Dutton this semester. Boxburger said he’s grateful to have the opportunity to student teach at Ros e Hill High School because he has family in the district. “My uncle, Mr. Van Horn, teaches at the middle school, (as an) eighth grade English teacher,” said Boxburger. “He said he just love s it here, he said the district is really awesom e and the students are good.” With student teaching, Boxburger is working on getting used to the classroom set ting, while also fulfilling his college require ments. “Getting out into the field and actuall y working with students more, being in the classroom, and just getting used to the teacher life, I guess you could say, is what I’m really looking forward to,” said Box burger. Boxburger has always been further ahead in math class and he helps his peers in his free time. “I always looked forward to doing my math homework more, I was always help ing out my classmates, and the people in my dorm with their homework,” said Boxburger . “I transferred to Hays, they’ve got a goo d education program, switched to Mat h Education, and started tutoring and haven’t looked back.”
RHHS ADDS STUDENT TEACHER FOR FALL By Sydney LaKo us
“I always looked forward to doing my math homework more, I was always helping out my classmates, and the people in my dorm with their homework,” said Boxburger. “I transferred to Hays, they’ve got a good education program, switched to Math Education, and started tutoring and haven’t looked back.”
HIGH SCHOOL NCE WELCOMES SCIE TEACHER By Be n Walke r
physical science teacher, Kyle Beauchamp, This year, Rose Hill High School hired a new retire after teaching science classes and who replaced Lee Ann Youse. She decided to for more than 20 years. teaching overall. Before he started This year is going to be Beauchamp’s sixth year High School in Saint Joseph, Missouri for teaching at Rose Hill, he worked at Central five years.
back here to this area, getting closer “It was just a good fit. We wanted to move . Youse let me know that there was a to family and all that,” Beauchamp said. “Mrs to apply and come back to work here.” position opening up, and I was very excited and that there is not a really big number Beauchamp likes that RHHS is a small school s to take place and for people to know of people here, allowing for more friendship each other better. “
It’s possible to get to know most or all of “I love the warm, small-school atmosphere. challenge has been putting up with all of the people here,” said Beauchamp. “The only the bad jokes Mr. Grier makes.” here and he has high hopes for his career Beauchamp is very thankful to be working g at Rose Hill High School and hopes to at RHHS. He is excited about what is happenin become a large part of it.
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TAJ MA-HILL Industrial Tech Shop Nears Completion By Lindsey Esslinger
The noise around Rose Hill High School in the arts hallway is due to the creation of a new Industrial Tech Building for Mr. Hill’s classes, which has been nicknames the “Taj Ma-Hill.” They are still working on this new addition to the building and we are not sure when it will be done. His current room has some tables and computers around the walls for his other classes. The new addition to the school will be used for Hill’s shop classes, as well as some Butler classes.
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Hill is very excited abo ut the new equipm ent that he and his student s will get to use. This additio n to the sch ool will help m any studen ts get the experie nce they ne ed to excel in this field of wo rk. Even thoug h this build in g is not finishe d, students cannot wait to hav e the oppor tunity to learn wit h the updat ed facilities.
R O F Y T N E L P A S E G N CHA T N E M T R A P E D D E P S RHHS
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While Covid-19 is still ongoing, USD 394 has new ways of handling it. Although some things have gone back to normal, there are still some protocols in place, and some new ones that the district will have to follow. Last year, there was social distancing and masks were mandatory. This year, masks are highly recommended and social distancing is not as high of a priority.
USD394 ALTERS COVID POLICIES By Li n ds ey Es sl inge
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Last year, there was social distancing and masks were mandatory. This year, masks are highly recommended and social distancing is not as high of a priority. Since the state isn’t doing remote learning, students will not be sent home if they were in contact with someone with the virus. “The state and the feds left it up to individual districts to make decisions on masks or not,” Rose Hill Assistant Principal Aaron Jackson said. “With people getting the vaccine and people already contracting the virus, the state and feds are now highly recommending masks, rather than requiring them.”
When a person is in contact with someone with the virus, they will be given a Covid test at the school from the nurse’s office. Students will be given these tests for the same amount of time that they would be quarantined for. If the test comes back negative, then they can go to class, but if it is positive they will be sent home and the people they were in contact with will have to be tested.
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THE DAY THE WORLD STOOD STILL
Barger did not personally know anyone in the attacks, however, the day left a lasting impact. Emily Tilton, a science teacher at RHHS, was only in the second grade when the event occurred.
Reflecting on September 11th, 2001
By Jessa Lee
This September 11 marked the 20th anniversary of a tragic day in United States history. It has been two decades since America was attacked by terrorists linked to the extremist group Al Qaeda. Four airplanes were hijacked, two of which flew into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York. Outside of Washington D.C., another plane was flown into the Pentagon. The last one crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania in a field. There were around 3,000 lives lost that day.
“I remember my teacher turning the classroom TV on and watching the twin towers fall,” said Tilton. “I was too young to understand the impact of what was happening but I knew it was really bad for my teacher to stop class.” Tilton also did not know anyone involved in the attacks, though the events of 9/11 influenced her.
The events of 9/11 affected many people’s lives, even if they weren’t directly involved in the attack. Some of our own teachers gave their thoughts on the day.
“I have been impacted by the patriotism that has lit up the country since those attacks occurred,” Tilton said. “I have often thought about the massive amount of families that were torn apart that day. I think of how life is dictated by small choices leading to big moments. I wonder how the people that nearly missed death that day are living their lives now. Did it make them change their priorities? Did they just continue on?”
Brandon Barger was at his first teaching position at Resurrection Catholic School. “We definitely had the news on,” Barger said. “Everyone was glued to the television.” Barger said he had felt helpless watching the events unfold.
These are probably questions that many have thought about in the time after 9/11, even now after two decades. There are currently numerous stories of people who were directly affected by the attacks, or had near death experiences revolving around them.
“Our natural instinct is to help in any way possible, and we couldn’t,” said Barger. “We just had to watch and see so many people suffer. When I went to the memorial a couple of years ago, it really made my gut feel that feeling again of helplessness.”
These people and many others continue to show their patriotism by remembering those who did pass on that day. Whether it be through social media, going to visit the memorial, or another way, America honors those who lost their lives on 9/11 to this day.
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HOW I COPE WIT
H STRESS AND ANXIETY By S
ydney LaK ous As a teenager in hig h school, stress is common: too much after school job, a homework, an sport you’re dedic ated to, all mixed of not having enou with the feeling gh time in the day to do it all. Expressing your fe elings to an adult, or sometimes your stressful. There’s peers, can be always that ‘what if’. What if they th dramatic or that I’m ink I’m being overreacting? Wh at if they tell me I it as bad as other kid don’t have s, or that they had it way worse when younger? That fear they were of invalidation is wh at holds a lot of pe from getting supp ople back ort.
I’ve always been a very relaxed pers on all around and no about things I can’t t stressed control. In recent years, this has chan with growing up an ged. Along d becoming aware about myself and around me, I’ve als the world o attended school, online or in person pandemic. I think , through a that is a valid reas on for my stress lev before the pandem els to rise. Even ic began, my anxie ty started to deve lop.
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Elliot Herod runs in the Circle Invitational. Herod took seventh in the race.
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Daylin Janzten gets ready to kick the ball in play.
Students volunteer at the district’s Parent Night, which featured guest speaker Heather Schultz.
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Members of the Wake Up Rose Hill staff compete in the Kansas Press Corps Journalism Competition at The Kansas State Fair.
Life The Rocket football team takes the field on USA Night against Clearwater.
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