Oakland Mills High School is the home of the Scorpions and is known for its diversity. Those belonging to a large variety of ethnicities, backgrounds, and cultures can be found in this school. In addition to these very important aspects of identity, one can also be defined by their sex. In the school setting, many have been in academic environments where their peer … Continue reading CoEd or Single-Sex Education?

     Students who miss 10% of school, or about 18 days throughout the year, negatively affects a student’s academic performance. Whether the absence is excused or unexcused, absence has an impact on student performance in school. Snow days are not necessarily affecting how students perform; there are students who do not show up even when there is little to no snow on the ground … Continue reading How are Snow Days Affecting Students’ Performance in School?

Recently, Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water, a film set in the sixties about a mute woman who falls in love with a ‘fish-man’ being experimented on by the government, won Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscar Awards. It’s one of those rare movies where the monster is the good guy; it’s definitely very different from the monster movies of the fifties … Continue reading Monsters in Media: A History

  Not a lot of families are fortunate enough to send their child to college and pay it off. From a young age you are told that you need a college education in order to be successful, which is what most high school students plan on achieving after their graduation. Others choose to a different career route by blowing up overnight by starring in a viral … Continue reading Should College Education be Free?

Is a college education really worth it? After high school a lot of people look at getting a college degree to help them pursue their dream career, but with the rising cost of getting a college education, many people wonder if it is really worth the money.   There have been many articles stating that most college students don’t think college is worth the cost, … Continue reading College Pros and Cons