Six-period schedule inhibits learning opportunities
May 15, 2012
Hall Monitor Elise Tinseth Liberty High School
As I leave high school, I leave a curriculum threatened by change. At this crucial point in my life I have been looking back on my time at Liberty High School and I have realized how much our eight-period schedule has impacted me.
I have been able to take many more challenging and fun classes than my friends at both Issaquah and Skyline have been able to in order to fulfill their required credits such as health and software technology.
Last month, I sat down with my brother to plan out which courses he was going to take over his high school career. We wrote down all of the ones he was interested in, the required ones and the ones that he wanted to take to enrich and challenge himself. As we organized his classes into years, we ended up making two lists: one where we planned for an eight-period schedule and one where we had to limit ourselves to a six-period schedule.
May 16 Student Crossword Puzzle
May 15, 2012
Elementary School — May 16
May 9 Student Crossword Puzzle Answers
May 15, 2012
High School Answers — May 9
Schools, Issaquah School District win Earth Heroes at School Awards
May 8, 2012
Renee De Tolla, Ashley Hirst and Leslie Lederman (from left), of Grand Ridge Elementary School, pose with King County Executive Dow Constantine at April 26’s Earth Heroes award ceremony. By Ned Ahrens/King County Department of Transportation
The Issaquah School District’s green side was on display recently when it received several environmental honors from King County Executive Dow Constantine.
Local students earn National Merit Scholarships
May 8, 2012
Two local students were among 2,500 National Merit Scholarship designees, chosen from more than 15,000 finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Ashwin K. Rao, a Skyline High School student, of Sammamish, will receive a $2,500 scholarship that will be underwritten by McGraw-Hill Companies Inc.
Rao plans to study investment banking in college.
Carew Giberson-Chen, an Issaquah resident attending Interlake High School, was awarded a $2,500 National Merit scholarship award that is supported by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.’s own funds.
Giberson-Chen plans to study medicine in college.
Issaquah Youth Advisory Board seeks fresh faces by May 18
May 8, 2012
City leaders need tweens and teens to serve on the Issaquah Youth Advisory Board during the 2012-13 school year.
The panel fosters advocacy, community service and youth representation on local boards and committees.
Students must live within the Issaquah School District boundaries in order to apply for the board. The school district stretches from Preston to Newcastle and from Sammamish to Renton.
Organizers intend to include members representing each middle and high school in the district.
The panel also welcomes home-schooled and private school students living inside district boundaries.
Find the application on the municipal website, www.ci.issaquah.wa.us/Files/2012-2013IYABapplication.pdf. The application deadline is May 18.
Contact city Recreation Coordinator Cathy Jones at 837-3317 or cathyj@ci.issaquah.wa.us to learn more.
The upcoming year represents the 17th anniversary for the Issaquah Youth Advisory Board. Past projects include hosting a daylong Issaquah Youth Summit, collecting more than 1,200 pounds of food for the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank and organizing a middle school dodgeball tournament.
Interest in Olympics is waning with students
May 8, 2012
Hall Monitor Eric Schroeder Issaquah High School
The 2012 Olympic Games are fast approaching and will certainly be a part of current events this summer.
But for all of its importance, there seems to be some apathy surrounding the games. While our student body has a great interest in athletics at Issaquah High School, it seems that students just do not pay a lot of attention to the Olympics.
Considering that the Olympics pit country against country and attract the most talented athletes from around the world, you would think that it would be a bigger event. While surveys revealed that over two-thirds of students said that they plan to watch the Olympics this summer, most students said that they only plan to passively watch them when they were bored or just flipping through channels.
May 2 Student Crossword Puzzle Answers
May 8, 2012
Middle School Answers — May 2
May 9 Student Crossword Puzzle
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High School — May 9
Cascade Ridge students embrace reading, technology in schoolwide contest
May 1, 2012
Ella Matias, 6, shows off her Eager Reader minutes. Contributed
If the students at Cascade Ridge Elementary School had a dollar for every minute they read last month, they’d be a long way toward paying for college.
At the beginning of April, the children were challenged to track how much time they spent reading for pleasure outside class. The numbers were tallied April 27 and in the end the students had read for 628,191 minutes — well over 10,000 hours.
