Staff Ed: When it comes to college apps, the odds are not in your favor
May 2, 2012
Filed under Opinion, Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
Watch out, parents. There’s a new form of gambling that your teenager is highly likely to partake in during his or her senior year in high school. No, this isn’t some card game. It’s college admissions. What is it exactly about applying to colleges that makes it akin to gambling? For starters,... Read more »
Staff Ed: JC needs to take even more steps to combat bullying, discrimination
April 3, 2012
Filed under Opinion, Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
There’s a new form of murder that’s sweeping the nation’s youth: bullying. Bullies attacking someone’s race, gender, sexuality, religious or political views, or anything as inconsequential as what they wear can be seen in the halls of any school. Seeing JC take bold steps into a direction... Read more »
Staff Ed: JC needs to cut down on paper usage and warm up to technology
March 15, 2012
Filed under Opinion, Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
Although JC has implemented the use of laptops in the classroom, the attempts at going green should not stop here. JC claims to be a green school, but with the amount of paper that still gets thrown in the trash every day, this status is hard to believe. Even though there are recycling bins all around... Read more »
Staff Ed: Senior Variety Show tradition dies, class of 2012 not solely to blame
December 15, 2011
Filed under Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
Seniors, take a good, long look at the ring on your finger. It seems to be the only tradition left. Variety Show is dead. While some could argue that the show goes against Catholic ethics and morality, graduates still look forward to their unofficial class reunion, and underclassmen look forward to... Read more »
Staff Ed: Administration should not change Senior Variety Show date
November 11, 2011
Filed under Opinion, Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
One of the longest JC traditions is coming to a close. For the past 25 years, the annual senior Variety Show has been held right before Thanksgiving. Now the administration is destroying that tradition. The class of 2012's Variety Show will not be held during the usual November time period. Instead,... Read more »
Staff Ed: Parent alcohol education program predicted to be successful
October 24, 2011
Filed under Opinion, Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
With the 2011-2012 school year, JC not only saw a change in authority, but a change in several rules and programs. Efforts to revive the “green” status of the school sprang into action, food became taboo in the library, and both faculty and students began to don purple every Friday. Principal Madelyn... Read more »
Administrative decision on prom drinking causes concerns
May 23, 2011
Filed under Opinion, Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
If JC seeks to change the “social landscape” plagued by underage drinking, then the administration must crack down on alcohol violations and change the attitude students have toward drinking. The administration allowed several students to return to school following a brief suspension for allegedly... Read more »
Staff finds more to Harford County than teen drinking
April 28, 2011
Filed under Opinion, Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
On any given Saturday around two o’clock, give or take a few hours, log onto Facebook and it's almost guaranteed that a set of pictures containing red-faced friends, suspicious-looking cups and horribly photoshopped soda bottles will pop up in your news feed. According to the Aegis and Joseph Ryan... Read more »
Staff requests admin attitude adjustment
March 8, 2011
Filed under Opinion, Staff Ed: The Patriot Perspective, Staff opinion
If the administration's goal is to change our “rude” and “inappropriate” behavior, then the administrators themselves need to set a better example for students. A few weeks after the administration addressed the issue of bullying at JC, juniors and seniors gathered in the auditorium for a... Read more »