As the Woodside High School track season is coming to an end, the school celebrated its seniors' last Wednesday with a night dedicated to them, while runners and jumpers are heading off to the Pacific Athletic League (PAL) championship and varsity trials.
Anxiety rates among middle and high school students have increased by two percent since 2012. As of 2011, one in 20 teens in the United States suffers from mental health issues. There are many high school students that go through their day to day lives with anxiety and depression that goes unnoticed. A Palo Alto High School (PALY) freshman, who prefers to remain unnamed and, starting at young age, has struggled with her mental health, shares her story.
The definition of stereotypes is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or the idea of a particular type of person or thing.” Stereotyping women is something that women have had to face their whole lives, but women are fighting back to accomplish their goals in a male-dominated society.
Woodside’s Varsity Cross-Country Team ended the season with one runner going to state, two runners earning medals at the championship meet, and both the boys and girls varsity teams in the top ten in the Bay Area for division II.
In a controversial decision, California Governor Jerry Brown recently vetoed a law stating that all public middle and high schools can start no earlier than 8:30 am.
The law -passed by the California...
