On April 22nd, 2019, House Bill 1599 was passed through the Washington state legislature, stating that state testing will no longer be a graduation requirement, starting with the class of 2020. The purpose of the bill is to remove barriers for graduating. Although these tests are no longer required for graduation, part of the bill states that they are still required to be taken. Students at...

Is thirty minutes enough? That’s been a question to ponder since 2015, as we all arrived on campus to find that the hour-long lunch period we had hoped for had been axed. Instead we found two, 30-minute periods that were split and decided by 4th period teacher. So is this fair? To most of the student body, they honestly don’t know any better. They went through their whole high school experience...