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Phone Policy Positively Impacts Students

Phone Policy Positively Impacts Students

Sydney Murphy, J1 Reporter February 13, 2024

The Bowie phone policy helps students learn more efficiently in the classroom. Although students want to stay connected to their phones, phones distract students from their work, which validates the Bowie...

Flexible Instruction Time (FIT) shouldn’t be required, and students who need the extra time to work should sign up for Study Hall as one of their electives

Flexible Instruction Time shouldn’t be required

Hannah Salz, J1 Reporter January 5, 2024

The bell rings and you shuffle out of your first-period class, tired and ready to get another school day over with. You make your way to your FIT, sit on your phone, and waste time. After the short 26...

According to many students, each day in their lives can be incredibly stressful and the ability to leave campus during lunch is seen as a way to refocus or have a break away from schoolwork.

All grade levels should have the option of off-campus lunch.  

Olivia Hunter, J1 Reporter January 4, 2024

Lunch is a major part of every student's life, but our lunch policies at Bowie aren’t fair. Overcrowding, weather, and sanitation are all issues during lunch because of the rules against lower-class...

The SLO often ends up being a waste of time in many classes and is not guaranteed to be accurate.

Is teacher pay based on SLO scores?

Hannah Salz, J1 Reporter January 3, 2024

The last thing a teacher should tell you is to try to do badly on a test. However, the SLO (Student Learning Objectives) is not a usual test students take. This district-required test is used to measure...

However, life is anything but scripted, and punishing students for things out of their control won’t solve any problems.

Incentives are not a reward; they are a punishment

Eleanor Blue, J1 Reporter January 2, 2024

Incentives are not a reward; they are a punishment. I realized this in 2021. I was a hard-working student trying to prepare for the semester, and I hadn’t missed a day of school. And then my grandfather...

Teachers should be doing things to help students with their procrastinating so that they might be able to work on fixing it

Teachers should be more understanding of students’ procrastination

Eliza Williams, J1 Reporter January 1, 2024

Procrastination is an issue that many students struggle with throughout their years in high school. It’s a very widely known issue in America to the point where, according to Productivity Lab, over 85%...

Students need to have a good balance between their social and academic life and this restricts them from doing so. Taking away the student’s hobbies and isolating them to just academics is only going to decrease their motivation. 

Should progress reports interfere with UIL participation?

Gia Snyder, J1 Reporter December 29, 2023

Students at Bowie High School are under a lot of pressure to keep their grades up especially if they are in a UIL event. The rule is that if the student is failing when progress reports are finalized they...

In a changing world where student mental health is ‘prioritized’, the incentive policy contradicts the true meaning behind the mental health movements.

Bowie’s incentive policy: Who does it really help?

Anya Ghimire, J1 Reporter December 28, 2023

The majority of students in high schools are tired, sick, or mentally not feeling well. The incentive policy that was put back into place a few years ago, which hasn’t been adjusted much after the decline...

There have been several instances in the recent past where individuals were accepted to universities, despite not possessing the ‘immaculate’ grades that colleges and universities supposedly value. 

Legacy acceptances should be abolished

Anya Ghimire, J1 Reporter December 27, 2023

Legacy admissions into colleges are one of the major barriers hindering the achievement of a higher education. In June of 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed a bill that struck down race-conscious...

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