The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

Opinion

Is AP Capstone the right fit for Yorktown?

Is AP Capstone the right fit for Yorktown?

Joshua Allman, Sentry Staff Reporter November 9, 2021

Being a high school student comes with a lot of pressure. Determining post-graduation plans, working to keep high grades and participating in extracurriculars is intense. High school administrations attempt to provide help, but more often focus on helping...

It Is Time to Take Another Look at Columbus Day

It Is Time to Take Another Look at Columbus Day

Matthew Wagner, Staff Reporter October 25, 2021

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue; he had three ships and left from Spain; he sailed through sunshine, wind and rain. Every year, our country celebrates this fairy tale. But as we know, fairy tales are often written to disguise a sinister truth....

The Legacy of 9/11 and the War on Terror 20 Years Later

The Legacy of 9/11 and the War on Terror 20 Years Later

Miles Mann, Sentry Staff Reporter September 11, 2021

As it entered the new millennium, America had a working formula for world domination: brute-force intervention on a global scale. The strategy had proven effective against the spread of communism and had driven Iraq out of Kuwait in the first Gulf War;...

APS Has A Race Problem

APS Has A Race Problem

Yasmina Mansour, Opinion Editor May 20, 2021

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...

The Importance of Continuing to Stay Responsible During the Pandemic

The Importance of Continuing to Stay Responsible During the Pandemic

Julia Teixeira, Sentry Staff Reporter April 9, 2021

The Coronavirus pandemic has entered its 11th month of wreaking havoc on American life as we once knew it, and it is of paramount importance that we continue to follow the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines. Now is not the time to become negligent...

Why You Should Be a Costco Member

Why You Should Be a Costco Member

Whitney Critchfield, Sentry Staff Reporter April 9, 2021

Costco Wholesale is a global phenomenon that has helped revolutionize the way consumers shop. With a mix of utility and luxury goods in massive quantities and a warehouse setting, the Washington-based giant has implemented an entirely different method...

Reopening APS Schools Won’t Solve the Education Crisis

Reopening APS Schools Won’t Solve the Education Crisis

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...

Trumps Usage of the Unitary Executive Theory Pointed Towards Signs of a Coup

Trump’s Usage of the Unitary Executive Theory Pointed Towards Signs of a Coup

Elijah Dale, Sentry Staff Reporter March 4, 2021

In the most recent administrations, executive power has grown significantly through a constitutional interpretation labeled the Unitary Executive Theory (UET), an interpretation that maintains that the executive power is held in one position. This interpretation...

The Divided Realities of America

The Divided Realities of America

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...

A Sustainable Future Means Ending Fast Fashion

A Sustainable Future Means Ending Fast Fashion

Whitney Critchfield, Sentry Staff Reporter February 19, 2021

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...

Patriot Period: A Change for the Worse

Patriot Period: A Change for the Worse

Lillian Keith, Sentry Staff Reporter January 6, 2021

This school year has been characterized by endless hours of sitting alone in a room, staring at a screen of colorful initials. The rare communication with the disembodied voices on the other side of Microsoft Teams calls is the only form of peer-to-peer...

Diversity Is Not An Attack On Entertainment

Diversity Is Not An Attack On Entertainment

Miles Mann, Sentry Staff Reporter January 6, 2021

In 2019, precedent was shattered, and cultural norms dispelled when Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite became the first non-English-language movie to win the venerated Best Picture award at the Academy Awards. Along with this groundbreaking...

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