During the second week of school, Burlington High School (BHS) implemented a new initiative: Flex Time. Flex time provides time during the normally scheduled advisory for students to meet with teachers. Students use the time to check in, make-up...
Burlington, VT - At 9:33 this morning, Burlington Superintendent of Schools Yaw Obeng sent an email addressed to BSD Community announcing his resignation.
“This decision has not been an easy one, but the rebuilt structures and stability will...
Co-written by Julia Shannon-Grillo and Jenna Peterson
Late this morning, a car crash occurred at the intersection of North Avenue and Institute Road, outside of Burlington High School (BHS).
Burlington police officers on the scene said...
Boys Volleyball
Record: 2-5-0
This season: Boys volleyball started the season with a loss against Champlain Valley Union High School (CVU). However, they quickly came back with two consecutive wins against Vermont Commons and Rice Memorial...
The power of a walkout stems from its core of civil disobedience. Walkouts make a statement by breaking the law. From women walking out of factories to oppose low wages in the 1930s, to 21st century students leaving school to advocate for gun reform,...
In November 2018, Burlington voters passed the largest school renovation bond in Vermont history: 70 million. The goal: make Burlington High School an accessible, secure, energy efficient center for 21st Century learning. The plan: renovate the...
On September seventh, Burlington High School (BHS) senior Wondu Summa won the Burlington Cross Country Invitational 5,000 meter run by a whopping 58 seconds. The following week he placed third at the Queensbury Invitational, a much larger event...
In August 2018, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg started an international political movement. Every Friday, instead of school, Thunberg occupied the steps of the Swedish legislature to insist they find a solution to the climate change crisis. Thunberg’s...
By Halle Newman
There’s one hundred and four days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it, so the annual problem of our generation is finding a good way to spend it.
Like maybe:
Sleep. You deserve it. If you’re not sleeping...
By Nataleigh Noble
Most high school seniors are only faced with the big decision of “What Comes After High School?” 16 year old Phin Brown, on the other hand, has some other choices to make. A little over a month after his encounter with two Secret...
In 2014, 2.87 million emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths occurred as a result of traumatic brain injuries - a 53% increase from the numbers seen in 2006.
Traumatic brain injuries, commonly called concussions, are caused by a...
By KCMalinda Hlordsz
Body shaming is a form of bullying.
Bullyingstatistics.org defines body shaming as the act of making someone feel badly about their body, for example, shaming them for being ¨too fat¨ or ¨too skinny.¨
i-D Magazine,...