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KSD could pay for ACT

KSD could pay for ACT

Amanda Pollmann March 13, 2012

Beginning next school year, KHS administrators hope to offer the ACT test to all juniors free of cost during the regular school day. Currently, to take the test on a Saturday costs $34-$49.50 per student....

Teenage traffic fatalities rise across Missouri

Teenage traffic fatalities rise across Missouri

By Maggie Teson March 13, 2012

Andy Lewis was driving home from a friend’s house on a cold January night. He was not far from his house when he braked at a four-way stop sign, glanced right and left and advanced through the intersection....

McGrath moves on, Townsend steps in

McGrath moves on, Townsend steps in

By Emily Stobbe March 13, 2012

McGrath leaves KSD When Cathy McGrath thinks of her past four years at KHS, she first recalls the students and staff she built relationships with. These people brightened her days and made her look...

KONY 2012 hits KHS

KONY 2012 hits KHS

By Ryan Bearden March 8, 2012

  KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous; not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. Above...

St. Louis firefighters file lawsuit against KSD

St. Louis firefighters file lawsuit against KSD

By Maggie Teson February 23, 2012

Countless students across St. Louis could soon join the 1,719 pupils who pack KHS halls every day. Regardless of residency, the Kirkwood School District (KSD) may have to admit any student wishing to transfer...

Punishments for Tweets raise questions

Punishments for Tweets raise questions

by Claire Salzman February 22, 2012

Josh Spiller was angry. One of his teachers sent him to the office after he refused to hand over his phone in class. Thursday, Feb. 2, during the school day, Spiller, junior, fired off a Tweet, cursing...

Colleges vary in checking social media

Colleges vary in checking social media

By Emily Stobbe February 22, 2012

Malena Smith was told for years by counselors and parents colleges would look at her Facebook page before accepting her. But even as she applied to University of Missouri-Columbia, Webster University,...

REACHing toward KHS

REACHing toward KHS

Amanda Pollmann February 22, 2012

Kirkwood School District is extending its gifted education program to KHS students in order to effectively continue helping kids learn at an accelerated pace. “For awhile now, [gifted education teachers]...

WBC protests homosexuality at CHS

WBC protests homosexuality at CHS

By Kyle Rieger February 22, 2012

The straight and gay, the religious and the atheist, the young and the old all stood in the midst of a heavy fog outside of Clayton High School watching a red Honda minivan pull into the parking lot Feb....

Symphonic orchestra performs at Tan-Tar-A

Symphonic orchestra performs at Tan-Tar-A

By Claire Hubert February 14, 2012

The KHS 56-member Symphonic Orchestra, under the direction of Patrick Jackson, played a concert at the Tan-Tar-A Resort in Lake of the Ozarks for the Missouri Music Educator’s Association’s (MMEA’s)...

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