Arizona Schools

One of the defining characteristics of the latest Trump administration has been their insistence to remove DEI, or Diversity Equity, and Inclusion practices from every facet of American life.

Over the past few years, teachers have begun noticing differences in how kids use their phone over a school day. They're no longer just a method of calling home if you need, they're distraction machines, literally.

Ask any kid in the world, and they'll probably tell you if they could, they'd stop going to school all together. It's not an uncommon sentiment, but the vast majority pushes through regardless.

Introduced by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "Make America Healthy Again" is a plan to, well, it's pretty self explanatory honestly.

If there's one word to describe the second Trump administration, it would be "controversial". Changes have been made day by day that the nation is ecstatic about, and some that have left the whole country scratching their heads.

A new bill is currently being proposed by the Arizona Department of Education that would overhaul security in all Arizona schools by bringing in retired police officers as SROs.

Nowadays, cell phones are everywhere. Everyone from CEOs to toddlers have access to one, and that's been causing a lot of trouble at Arizona schools.

Fun Fact about me: Through my entire primary education (K-12), I never missed a day of school. I never took a sick day, never took off for vacation, and never just skipped for the fun of it. Heck, I even attended class on Senior Skip Day just to keep that streak alive.

The question of what should be filling our school libraries has been a controversial topic for decades now, and it's finally coming to a head in Arizona

My freshman year of college, I was on scholarship to the University of Florida School of Music Education to follow my dream of becoming a music teacher and band director.