His Hands
By Lia Low
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The B.C. Cellphone Restriction
By Luca Crema Black Phones give access to un-regulated content on the internet, and in the school setting, they distract students from learning. The BC Ministry of Education will start restricting phones at school in September 2024. Few details of the ban have been confirmed, but there are two likely contingencies: The mandate will restrict phones from the bell-to-bell schedule. This will deny access to phones in class, but during breaks, students will have access to their phones. Students will have access to phones during certain learning activities, which must be authorized by teachers. If teachers have the authority to allow phones during learning activities, the restriction could have an extremely slight change. Currently, without the phone restriction, many teachers operate their classroom with a policy similar to this. Students are prohibited from using phones, but a teacher can give permission to use device...
You Are Better at Singing Than You Think
By Amelia Kondor “Whether you have the voice of a songbird or sound like some ball-bearings in a blender, singing can have some remarkably positive effects.” (Keating). In their article about why singing can improve mood and health, Keating begins by making a crack about people being bad at singing. Normally, this would slip under my radar as a throwaway joke, but in researching this article, I have begun paying more attention to the way people talk about singing, and what I have noticed is that it’s almost always negative. This led me to wonder why singing started, and why so many people hate their voices. Trying to determine where singing comes from isn’t easy. Singing has existed for thousands of years. Tablets have been found containing songs from well over five thousand years ago that originated in Greece and Mesopotamia (“Why do we sing?”). Many Indigenous communities have different types of music, but due to colonization, the most...
The Tee Jay
By Anna Segelken On September 6th, 1927, Templeton Junior High School opened its gates for the first time to approximately 900 pupils in grades seven and eight. Later this year, on December 2nd, 1927, Templeton’s first student publication, the Tee Jay, was unveiled. The name Tee Jay was chosen because it was “distinctive” and “took in two of our letters”. The editors also chose this name because “it makes mention of an interesting bird- the jay”. They explained that “the jay is a chattering bird and we hope to make our paper a chatty paper”. The Tee Jay was a very comprehensive publication. It covered all news at the school, from sports reporting “a snappy basketball game was played” to gossip “a young lady dropped her milk bottle the other day in the cafeteria”. The “Sassiety Column” kept students informed of important observations, such as “a big handsome cop strutting his stuff”. Reading the Tee Jay offers insight into th...