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December 14, 2011
Fremont cheerleaders lacked uniforms but not spirit at the school's only home football game on Oct. 14. The cheerleaders were told they had to raise $200 each to buy green and gold uniforms.When Fremont had its first and only home football game against McClymonds this season, the cheerleaders may...
December 14, 2011 • ERIC GANT, McClymonds High
They took a survey on how fights and bullying affect learning. They wore stickers that read “Watch my back.” And they painted “48%” on their faces to remind themselves that only 48 percent of African Americans and Latinos graduate high school in Oakland. These were some of the “actions”...
June 3, 2011 • Stephanie Yu, Skyline High School
The competition went down on April 8 at the James Moore Theatre, located in the Oakland Museum of California. Youth from six Bay Area high school teams graced the audience with poems that told real stories about tough topics in the Unified District Poetry Slam finals. Skyline student Kyaira Talton served...
June 3, 2011 • Esmeralda Argueta, Alihzey Black, Esther Gamez, Monique Hatcher, Maria V. Muniz, Lee Simmons, Lilybeth Villasenor and Erick Zamudi, Reporters, East Oakland School of the Arts
What if you redesigned a school and nobody liked it? Students at the East Oakland School of the Arts (EOSA) are talking about the type of school they’d like to see, following news earlier this year that the Oakland Unified School District will consolidate the three schools at the Castlemont...
June 3, 2011 • Moses Nervis, Cartoonist
I’m a senior now, but I started drawing when I was about three years old. As a kid, I watched a lot of TV shows that inspired me to draw comics like Garfield, the Chipmunks, the Super Mario brothers, Scooby Eoo, and Tom and Jerry. When I was about six years old, I drew a comic book that was about...
March 9, 2011 • Pamela Tapia, McClymonds High
She’s only four years old. But when Makhiya Jones-Robinson dances, flips, and jumps on the sidelines of a McClymonds High School game, the fans erupt in cheers. “She’s little but she’s one of us. She brings a spark to our cheering,” said Qwanesha McDonald, 17, captain of the cheerleading...
December 10, 2010 • Christian Olivares, Darrell McClain, Fatima Jones, Oaktown Teen Times
Spring came early to the Oaktown Teen Times, thanks to a grant from the nonprofit Open Circle Foundation, which promotes links between the arts and the natural and urban environment. The nearly $8,000 grant will support a yearlong reporting project involving three Oakland high schools. It includes...
December 10, 2010 • ELIZABETH HAN & BAO NGOC NGUYEN, Skyline High
Bullying has always been customary — almost traditional — when it comes to the playground. When we were seven, we suffered from hair-pulling and comments that ridiculed our pieces of clothing. As we grew older, these negligible wisecracks turned into criticisms that attacked our weight and all...
December 7, 2010 • Stephen Phan, Staff writer
Oakland High students are outraged about the food served by the cafeteria. The line is long, they say, and the food and is not worth the price. Every day at lunch time, the lunch room gets overly crowded. There are way too many students in the lunch line at one time. Even though some kids go off campus...
November 13, 2010 • Liam Barr, Skyline High
For students at Skyline and across the country, Advanced Placement (AP) tests just got a little less stressful. The College Board recently announced that the multiple-choice guessing penalty will be removed from all of its AP tests, effective on the next tests in May. “Getting rid of the guessing...
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