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Yorktown Sentry

The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

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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...

APS to Implement Restorative Justice Policies

APS to Implement Restorative Justice Policies

Elijah Dale, Staff Reporter May 11, 2021

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...

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...

College Recruiting During COVID

College Recruiting During COVID

Zoe Foose, Sentry Reporter March 4, 2021

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...

APS To Return to School with Hybrid Model in March

APS To Return to School with Hybrid Model in March

Philip Blumberg, Staff Reporter February 24, 2021

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...

Super Bowl LV: A Disappointing End to a Historic Season

Super Bowl LV: A Disappointing End to a Historic Season

Miles Mann, Sentry Reporter February 23, 2021

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...

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...

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Halls Hill: The Missing Chapter of Arlington’s History

Yasmina Mansour, Opinion Editor February 19, 2021

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...

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...

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APS To Adopt No Place For Hate Framework Despite Community Concerns

Philip Blumberg and Yasmina Mansour December 18, 2020

Arlington Public Schools (APS) is set to implement the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) No Place For Hate (NPFH) framework to address inequities within the school system. NPFH is considered a practical new tool in the equity space by APS administrators;...

How Can Arlingtonians Reduce Their Carbon Footprint?

How Can Arlingtonians Reduce Their Carbon Footprint?

Fiona Shepherd, Sentry Reporter December 16, 2020

The climate crisis has reached critical conditions around the world. It is becoming a large problem that has an effect on each and every person globally. So many of our habits contribute to climate change, and reducing our carbon footprint is an easy...

Amazon Allocates $1 Million to Assist Families in Need Across Arlington and Alexandria

Amazon Allocates $1 Million to Assist Families in Need Across Arlington and Alexandria

Ryan Cole December 16, 2020

On October 7, Amazon announced that it would be allocating $1 million towards the Right Now Needs Fund, a fund set up by the tech behemoth to assist both Arlington Public Schools (APS) and Alexandria Public Schools (ACPS) in “meeting the basic needs...

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