It is a perpetual, lingering thought that seniors must battle every waking moment. Walking in the hallway, sitting at lunch, at soccer practice -- it always lurks in the background, ready to pounce on your good time. Sometimes it even creeps into dreams....
On February 1, 2021, one day prior to the inauguration of the newly elected government, the Myanma military initiated a coup d’état, forming the State Administration Council (SAC). Since the oppressive regime has taken over, a revolution led by pro-democracy...
Arlington Public Schools (APS) has a race problem. This is not a falsified reality or a malicious slander of the system but rather a concrete, indisputable truth. The commodified image of progressiveness slapped onto APS is, at best, a pretense of distorted...
Arlington Public Schools (APS) confirmed its commitment to the adoption of a new disciplinary policy mid-February. Superintendent Dr. Francisco Durán proposed the hiring of a student behavior and climate coordinator in the 2022 fiscal year budget to...
Owen McArdle, Sentry Staff Reporter
• March 4, 2021
A dangerous new strain of the virus. 4,000 deaths in a single day. Cases in the area soaring daily. Yet, despite these desperate circumstances, Arlington Public Schools (APS) is preparing to send over 28,000 students back to classrooms in March.
The...
The unprecedented and disastrous year of 2020 had extensive worldwide effects. Not only did the Coronavirus pandemic affect practically every aspect of daily life, it also forced many to ponder difficult decisions, some greatly affecting the youth in...
On February 9, Arlington Public Schools (APS) Superintendent Dr. Francisco Durán announced the phased return dates for students who have opted into the hybrid learning model. Almost a year after the pandemic first shuttered our school buildings, many...
By all accounts, Super Bowl LV should have been one of the great games of the modern football era. It was a game that was to put an end to prominent discussions: the place of Tom Brady in the post-Patriots era and the staying power of Patrick Mahomes...
Miles Mann, Sentry Staff Reporter
• February 19, 2021
No other time in recent memory has America been more ideologically divided than it is today; traveling from coast to coast may as well be a journey through entirely disparate nations as the dramatic rifts among the beliefs of the public become all too...
Barely two miles from our school stands a grim remembrance of Arlington’s dark past: a stone-gray wall, now a historical marker, that once separated black residents from white residents. The blunt, shameful reminder of racial segregation sits on the...
Fast fashion -- a term used to define the process of retail giants selling inexpensive clothing to consumers in massive quantities in response to the fluctuation of trends -- is a large issue that only keeps growing. Due to the allure of low prices and...
