By Summer Grace and Halle Newman
A national conversation, fueled by the #MeToo movement, has vaulted women’s rights and sexual harassment in the workplace to the forefront of the American culture wars. #MeToo is a social media hashtag encouraging victims...
The internet is flooded with stereotypes about Millennials, those born between 1980 and 1995. Multitudinous articles lament their selfishness, obsession with technology, laziness, and dependency on their parents. The next generation, however, seems to...
Register staff writer Halle Newman participated in The March For Our Lives in Washington, D.C. on March 24th. This video was made to illustrate and share her experience of the march with the Burlington community, and to share the voices of a few of...
“Life has sure changed since I was young,” Laurette Joudoin, a 97 year old Burlington resident, said with a smile. Joudoin was eager to speak with the BHS Register about how life has changed significantly in the past few months with the #MeToo movement....
Burlington High School (BHS) will become the second high school in the nation to raise a Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag on Monday, February 19th.
This past Tuesday, the Burlington school board voted unanimously to raise the flag after six members of the...
BREAKING:
Signs posted by the Junior Republican Committee of Burlington High School (BHS) today sparked controversy amongst students and members of the greater community. The sign pictured below was approved by principal Tracy Racicot and hung around...
Co-written by Julia Shannon Grillo and Jenna Peterson.
During the darkest days of the year, many cultures celebrate holidays of light and hope. These holidays serve as something to look forward to when the days get shorter and the temperature drops.
Kwanzaa
The...
On Oct. 1, the largest mass shooting in U.S. history occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada. 59 people were killed and over five hundred were injured. From the thirty-second floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd of concertgoers...
BY: Emma Chaffee and Theo Davis
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a proposal on Tuesday, November 21, to repeal what many call ‘Net Neutrality’.
Net Neutrality requires Internet service providers (ISPs) to provide equal service to...
In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, former NFL quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, knelt during the national anthem at his team’s preseason games to protest police brutality and minority oppression in America. Kaepernick’s peaceful protest inspired...
One of the five graduation expectations (GX) that all Burlington High School (BHS) students must meet before moving beyond the realm of high school is built around cross-cultural understanding and civic engagement.
According to the BHS student handbook,...
Hurricane Harvey dropped approximately 27 trillion gallons of water on Texas and Louisiana. Vermont is over 1,000 miles away from this devastation, but distance did not stop Vermonters from aiding the affected areas.
Whitney Troy-Vowell, co-owner of...
