Every year, Apex High School is allotted five slots for exchange students to enroll at our school. Last year, many students had to go home early due to the pandemic. I interviewed three students who attended Apex High School last year, catching up with them on how their lives have changed since going back to their home country during a
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After a long quarantine, shut-down schools, and no school sports, Apex High School welcomed back its track team on April 12th. Prior to the official start date, Apex welcomed its new head coach, Addison Johnson! This will be his first year coaching at Apex but his 10th year overall. His main goals are to help improve the team as a
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As we all know, Wake County Public Schools, including Apex High School, has transitioned into Plan A recently. With that, there are many changes that have been made inside the school and classroom that are different from Plan B. The school and classrooms are filled with more students, and upperclassmen can now go off campus again for lunch. The social
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Many users on Tik-Tok, a social media platform that gained traction around the summer of 2019, have taken to the app to form a league of readers known as “Book Tok.” On “Book Tok” discussions occur among readers about worth-it books, overrated conundrums, and essential reads. These powerful opinions have made their way into retail outlets including Barnes and Noble,
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As everyone knows, Coronavirus has hit everyone pretty hard. However, no one has really taken the time to think about just how hard it hit students, especially the graduating class of 2021. Yes, the graduating class of 2020 had it rough with its prom and graduation getting canceled, alongside the other half of their senior year, but in my opinion,
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Once again, COVID-19 has taken away the ‘normal’ prom. Many seniors were hopeful that a school dance would be possible, but sadly, it’s not yet a possibility. COVID-19 cases are still high, and having a prom would be a safety risk. So, what is going to happen instead? “Instead, each high school will host an event to safely celebrate graduating
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If you don’t plan on traveling this spring break…click HERE to take this quiz to find out what local/at-home activities you can do that match your interests!!
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Many students have already returned to school in person via cohorts. Doing a rotation every week, for every three weeks. With fourth and fifth graders going back March 15th, they are making progress with getting students back into in person learning. They want to allow most high school and middle school students to finish school in person completely. There’s been
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As we’ve all been experiencing since the beginning of 2021, the coronavirus has had its moments with lots of cases at the beginning of the year and also settling down more recently. In the past few weeks, Wake County has opened up schools to allow more students to head back to school in rotations and cohorts. Below is an interview
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This year has been very difficult for everyone, but one specific group of people who have had their world completely altered is student athletes. Countless changes have been made, and precautions have been taken to ensure that they can have somewhat of a normal season. I sat down with student athlete Weston Freiling to talk about how this season has
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