What can you purchase for $5.00? A jar of peanut butter? Sure. A bag of apples? Yep. A dozen eggs? Nope. You may have noticed that egg prices are rapidly increasing in the U.S. (Eggs used to be around...
The average American highschooler spends about 7 hours and 22 minutes on their phone per day. In other words, about half of a teen’s waking hours. Phones negatively affect sleep, increase anxiety and...
On April 5th and 19th, 2025, millions of demonstrators flooded the streets chanting “Hands Off Our Democracy!” in cities across the United States, with London, Paris, and Berlin joining in solidarity.
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I first stepped foot on Academy ground on August 11th, the new students’ orientation day. At first, I was a little bit nervous, scared even, of the campus size and how everything felt so far apart. I...
As the bus left for Quito, we quietly waved goodbye to our host families through the bus windows, people we had known for just twelve days and yet felt so connected to that when the day came to say goodbye,...
RULER sucks and we all hate it, but… we might actually need it. It is an unpopular program among students and even some teachers. Its lessons sometimes feel patronizing and aimed towards a younger audience....
“I’d be safe and warm, if I was in LA.”
“California Dreamin” The Mamas & the Papas
It was January 7th and I was on a plane flying to the sunny city of Los Angeles. To say I was California...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to study abroad? Are you considering it? At the Academy, you can apply on your own to various study abroad options, or you can work with Mr. Gehres to go...
Domestic
Recently, Donald Trump was elected as president of the United States along with a Republican majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives. All of this combined with the Supreme Court’s...
If you asked any student on campus about any major changes in our community since the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, there’s no doubt they’d point out the recent cell phone ban and how it’s...
