At Archie Williams High School, two years of Physical Education (PE) is a graduation requirement, traditionally taken during freshmen and sophomore year. The course covers various sports, along with a CPR certification course near the end of the year. Despite the benefits PE can present, it doesn’t hold educational value for most Archie Williams students. 

After teaching at Archie Williams for almost seven years, P.E. teacher Tim Parnow has become an integral part of the Falcon community.  

As a child, Parnow deeply enjoyed playing sports and being active. He spent most of his time outdoors hiking and skateboarding with his friends. One of his favorite childhood hobbies, fishing,...

After teaching at Archie Williams for 23 years, Social Studies and Street Law teacher Kathleen McCormick is a passionate educator with the goal of teaching her students in an interactive learning environment. 

“I like to have fun and I like my students to have fun in class. I try not to take myself too seriously although I...

We all gossip. It’s a basic human vice: sharing information, speculating about friends and family, and expressing concern about peers makes us feel connected to each other. The average person gossips for 52 minutes a day, and studies show that, surprisingly, much of the time we spend gossiping is practicing a common social skill, and can even be a uniting force in...

In 2017, New York Times writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis wrote an article about an overachieving teenager, Jake, and his fear of academic failure. Jake personifies thousands of teenagers across the country whose lives orbit around the...

For over a century, the U.S. has inconsistently used Daylight Savings Time (DST) to save fuel and electricity. It has now become so normalized that we rarely think twice about how DST affects us before changing our clocks. However, this practice has become outdated and is now causing more consequences than the benefits it aims to create.