You don’t need friends to be happy
Payton Wright, Editor-in-Chief
November 27, 2017
Filed under Opinion
There are approximately 1,600 students at Taylorsville High School; more than likely you probably know around 500, be it personally or you just know of them. Odds are you have been in school with at least 30-40 of them since junior high or even elementary school. You’ve been with them for a while, and...
Living in the state of Utah automatically makes you rude
Elaine Hernandez, Reporter
November 27, 2017
Filed under Opinion
A group of over 50,000 submit their results to Travel + Leisure. The annual results for America’s Favorite Places survey, ranked Salt Lake City top 15 of America's Rudest Cities. Salt Lake City ranked number 6 on the scale. New York City ranked three slots above Salt Lake City as far as kindness go...
It’s not the end of the world if you aren’t asked to a dance
Laina Mackay, Reporter
November 27, 2017
Filed under Opinion
While planning a school dance can be fun it also takes a lot of the students and teachers time. It takes weeks to plan and decorate for a school dance. Some students get asked to dances where others choose to go by their self. At the school dances, people dance and are offered refreshments. They are ...
Bisexuality portrayed on televison
Audrey Helm, News Editor
November 27, 2017
Filed under Opinion
Bisexual people are often betrayed misrepresented in television and the media in a phenomenon known as bi erasure. According to glaad.org, bi erasure “is a pervasive problem in which the existence or legitimacy of bisexuality (either in general or in regard to an individual) is questioned or denied outrig...
The stalker book of T-Ville
Elaine Hernandez, Reporter
November 27, 2017
Filed under Opinion
The planner of 2017-18 for Taylorsville has raised conflict. The planner contains information that is personal to students and family. The planner contains student's full name, address, and phone number. If a planner is lost or left behind, any grown stranger can look up information on students. Thi...
Snarknado: The first week of the school year
Piper Cawley, Opinion Editor
November 27, 2017
The first week is rough all on it’s own. Sleeping schedules change, diets change...well maybe not the diet part of this. Teenagers feel free while summer is in full swing, free to stay up late, anything. But the last week of summer is when it all comes crashing back, school starts. The stress of co...
Staff Ed: Apple vs. Android debate heats up
November 4, 2016
Filed under Opinion
Two brands of phones have been in the spotlight for a while: Apple and Samsung. Recently, Apple has come out with their iphone 7 and Samsung with their Galaxy 7. Some people have very strong opinions and others have no opinion at all on which one is better. The two most noticeable problems with these...
Political correctness is not a joke
Nicole Gomez, Reporter
November 4, 2016
Filed under Opinion
Today, the biggest joke in our country is political correctness. People mock it at every turn. They point at random things and dramatically say “Triggered,” or go to Chick-fil-a and ask why there wasn’t a trigger warning on the door for vegans. It’s something everyone laughs about. But political...
“Crappy” restrictions teachers put on the hall pass
Nathaniel Salvenen, Reporter
November 2, 2016
Filed under Opinion
The need to pee. It shows up unexpected and is almost never predictable. Because of that, should teachers allow use of the hall pass when asked for it? Some teachers let students use the hall pass whenever they have to go, while others aren’t as lenient. Those teachers seem to think that...
To some Halloween is just another day
Ana Zamora, Reporter
November 2, 2016
Filed under Opinion
As Halloween comes closer, students are thinking about what costume to wear or what candy to buy they can buy at a discounted price after the holiday has passed. What seems to get overlooked every time the holiday comes around, is the people that don’t celebrate it. Most think of Halloween as a...
LGBT students treated differently in school
Dallen Cameron, Reporter
November 2, 2016
Filed under Opinion
“Reliable estimates indicate that between 4 and 10% of the population is gay or lesbian, which means in a public school system of more than one million,” according to Parents for Lesbian and Gay (PFLAG) NYC. Everyone knows one person who identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. In...
How to help a friend or family member with grief
Makayla Garfield, Reporter
October 31, 2016
Filed under Opinion
When confronted with helping another person through the process of dealing with grief of any type, many find themselves completely clueless. It was something I thought I had a general idea on, until my dad passed away. There is no one “right” course of action, there’s just simply trying out different...
Donovan Goodwin, Reporter
October 6, 2018 • Comments closed
A young man walks up to an older man who works in a fabrication shop. The young man asks why the older man believes what he does. He said that in the many years he’s worked he has figured out that you can't get something for nothing and that it all comes from someone. The young man replies that he understands but that means that he will have to pay for education and that he still deserves an education and that school, for example, should be free. But how does this story relate to politics?
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