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The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

Block schedules hold drawbacks to learning

Block schedules hold drawbacks to learning

Luciana Scheid February 26, 2025

Block schedules, which typically include fewer, longer class periods, have replaced usual class schedules in some schools. In my opinion, block schedules are not beneficial over a normal seven-period 55-minute...

More than just policy

More than just policy

Jaiden Leary February 25, 2025

Schools have always been a center for activism and protest. Young people gather and come together to make their voices heard when they are usually ignored. Protests against school boards, principals, superintendents...

Juvenile response officer Stanikka Alacantara interacts with Park students during lunch Feb. 7. Alacantara attends lunch daily to ensure the safety of students.

Heightened safety protocols: keeping Park safe

Caedon Exsted, Staffer February 26, 2024

Recently at Park, two fights broke out. Not only did the city of St. Louis Park know about it, but the whole world did. Due to this, Park needed to rethink and remake their policies in the high school....

City Council member Larry Kraft speaks to Park students Jan. 13. Youth and Government focuses on teaching the inner workings of government

Youth in Government offers unique learning experience

Roberto Alvarez January 18, 2023

As a way for students to get more of an insight into government and how it works, Park students received the opportunity to experience what it's like dealing with everyday politics at a local conference...

Switching it up: Sophomores Lily Metzler and Kate Gage laugh after receiving their
lunches. Next semester there will be a schedule change in which “students will see which lunch they have on their schedule, which doesn’t really change anything except it’ll be on the (physical) schedule,” Busse said.

Administration reflects on attendance, schedules

Abby Intveld and Dani Orloff January 31, 2019

Looking at her tardies from first semester, sophomore Fadumo Abdi said she believes the attendance policy allows students to decrease absences in the future. “Sometimes I don’t follow the attendance...

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