At Park, students miss school and classes every day for a variety of reasons. Regardless of the reasons that a student misses school, the effects that missing school has on students remain the same in...

As of recently, the work for this year as a junior has felt very overwhelming. There hasn’t been a week where I wasn’t worried or stressed about my schoolwork. I’ve heard from so many others as well...

In past years, Park has been attempting to increase student engagement in the classroom. A common solution to keep students on task is to assign “busy work.” This means that an assignment will be given...

Now that the mask mandate has been lifted and common colds are back in full swing, I caught a cold and ended up missing a whole week of school and with that fell behind on many classes and their assignments....

The definition of habit is a regular practice that is hard to give up. For Park students, these habits are coming through in incomplete assignments, skipping class and overall underperformance. According...

School is tough, and dealing with rigid grading only fuels the heavy load of stress.  In my experience, teachers will assign a variety of required work. If a student doesn't do well on one of the required...

According to junior volleyball player Kristi Thompson, it is extremely difficult to manage both school and sports due to the large time commitment each requires. “It's really hard to balance your...