Paraeducator love-bombs
Paraeducators are an integral part of the school community. Typically, they are assigned to specific students in need of additional academic or emotional support, but they often move beyond their stated role. There are...
Category: Features
Faculty hair survey: how staff ‘do their dos’ and feel about their tresses
My normal hair routine until recently? To cover my fingers in some hair gel and vigorously mess up my hair. But once I accidentally left the lid off the top of the hair gel...
‘It’s not magic,’ it’s the custodians: the hardworking team that keeps ARHS clean, by day and night
It’s lunch time and you’re sitting across from your friends. You’re joking around and throwing food at each other. You don’t think twice about leaving the mess you just made; in fact, the very...
Pioneer Valley Ballet brings ‘Nutcracker’ to life at Academy of Music
For many people, the holiday season is synonymous with the sweeping score of The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; holiday traditions are incomplete without an evening spent at the ballet, watching snowflakes...
Engineering courses highly enrolled, and teacher would love to offer even more
Engineering classes at ARHS have always been popular. Despite this, budget cuts have kept teacher Nick Harrison from expanding the program and offering more advanced classes. ARHS currently offers mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and...
When a parent gets ill: how teens and families cope
You come home from another normal day at school and enter the house to see your parents; in one hand they hold tissues and their other hands are clasped together. Their eyes are about...
Freedom of choice: a dress code with dignity
School dress codes are supposed to help support a positive learning environment in which all students feel comfortable. They don’t always achieve that. Some institutions are accused of being discriminatory in regards to the...
One big happy family: parents and kids ‘share’ ARHS
Having a school that feels “like home” is an ideal for most, but it’s a reality for the ARHS students whose parents teach at the high school. A look into the lives of some...
Senior assistant director of admissions offers big scoop on what colleges want
It is one of the most rewarding, but perhaps most nerve wracking, rites of passage for many high school seniors across the United States: college applications. Your life is compartmentalized and stripped down to...
Teens on wheels: licensed to drive
I still remember the day I got my license because I barely passed my test. I was mostly fine. I used correct signals; I correctly parallel parked. In fact, it was perfect until the...
